Daniel Gélin Filmography

Born:: May 19, 1921 in Angers, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Known for his sensitivity and keen intelligence, French actor Daniel Gelin has played starring and supporting roles in French cinema since the late '30s following studies at the Paris Conservatoire. He had his first major role the 1941 film Premiere Rendez-Vous, and after a lengthy break during...Read More

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

Obsession

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling, Daniel Craig, Seymour Cassel, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: In order to solve a family mystery, John, a stonemason from Zimbabwe, travels to Berlin to search for 1928 footage of a tightrope walker at Niagara Falls. While there, he becomes romantically obsessed with Miriam, a French rock musician in an all-girl band. Unfortunately, Miriam is totally in love Read More

1997
Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

1996
Fantome Avec Chauffeur

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently deceased fellows, Georges, a gentle chauffeur and his ruthless corporate tiger of an employer, Phillipe. Unfortunate Georges meets his demise at the hands of a gunman just as Read More

1996
Fugueuses

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Irène Jacob, Nicole Garcia, Stefano Dionisi

Synopsis: Sullen teenage orphan Johnny Miles (Josh Albee) is wrongfully accused of stealing from his foster parents. Running away from home, Johnny forms a bond with another youthful "runaway"--this one a leopard who has escaped from a nearby wild-animal compound. Both fugitives are sheltered by a harsh but Read More

1995
Les Bidochon

Actors: Anémone, Jean-François Stévenin, Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin

1995
Pushing the Limits

Actors: Fiona Gelin, Marc Twight, Edward Meeks, Eric Bellin, Eric Fradet

Synopsis: This French action movie features spectacular stunts in the air, on the slopes, and in the water as it follows the adventures of daredevils appearing on a popular French TV show. The story begins with Fiona standing upon a mountain peak releasing a beautiful eagle. The tale is told in flashback Read More

1994
E Medeiros, Maria

1994
Des Feux Mal Eteints

Actors: Manuel Blanc, Maria de Medeiros, Emmanuel Salinger, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive Read More

1994
3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

1994
La Cité de la Peur

Actors: Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby, Gérard Darmon, Sam Karmann

Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie "Red Is Dead." The movie tells of a killer in a welding mask who wields a hammer and sickle with deadly results. The trouble Read More

1994
Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

1993
Les Marmottes

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Christine Boisson, Gérard Lanvin, Jacqueline Bisset, André Dussollier

Synopsis: According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in the storytelling. In the story, a group of old friends and relations gather each year to celebrate Christmas together on the ski resort of Chamonix. They don't do much Read More

1993
De Force Avec d'autres

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Elsa Zylberstein, Daniel Gélin, Pascale Vignal

Synopsis: In real life, filmmaker Simon Reggiani's father, Serge Reggiani, was a desperately ill elderly alcoholic and also a renowned singer and cinematic leading man (mostly in France). In an effort to sustain his father's interest in life, he cast him in the central role in a biographical Read More

1993
Les Eaux Dormantes

Actors: Philippe Caroit, Marie Adam, Danièle Delorme, Ludmila Mikael

1992
Coup de Jeune

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Ludmila Mikael, Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin

1992
Un Type Bien

Actors: Alain Beigel, Raoul Billerey, Agnès Obadia, Daniel Gélin

1991
L'Amerique en Otage

Synopsis: A made for cable TV docudrama, former Carter administration aides Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon were responsible for the production of this miniseries which recounts the 1979 humiliation of America by a handful of Iranian radicals. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Embassy official married to Read More

1991
Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

11/9/90
Mauvaise Fille

Actors: Florence Pernel, Daniel Gélin, Yvan Attal, Christian Vadim

1990
Life Is a Long Quiet River

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Benoît Magimel, Valerie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Christine Pignet

Synopsis: Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The Corsican Brothers, the film begins with a castoff mistress spitefully switching a pair of newborn babies at the maternity ward managed by her doctor lover. As a result, the Read More

1988
Dandin

Actors: Zabou, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Adelin

Synopsis: Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the play has been somewhat dwarfed by such like-vintage Moliere classics as The Imaginary Invalid. Still, it was popular enough in its time to inspire imitation, most notably Read More

1988
Itinéraire d'un Enfant Gaté

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Marie-Sophie L., Béatrice Agenin, Daniel Gélin, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch, of Man and a Woman fame, called the shots on Itineraire D'un Enfant Gate. Jean-Paul Belmondo (who co-produced the film) stars as a powerful international businessman who, in his youth, had been a carnival performer. Once more bitten by wanderlust, Sam Lion (Read More

1988
Securite Publique

Actors: Sophie Duez, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Daniel Gélin, Bernard Haller

1987
Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio

Actors: Patricia Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Anne Baxter, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master of suspense" is shown according to stereotypes Read More

1985
Blitz

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gélin, Stefan Meinke

Synopsis: In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda (Jurgen Prochnow) has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for Read More

1985
Un Delitto

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Margaret Mazzantini, Emmanuelle Riva, Nino Castelnuovo

Synopsis: When a wealthy, elderly woman and an unknown stranger are murdered in the same small village on the same night, the judge who is charged with investigating the deaths begins to suspect that a new arrival in the village is connected to the crime. The only serious obstacle to chasing down that Read More

1984
Les Enfants

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Martine Chevalier, André Dussollier, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: More of a commentary on life as seen by Marguerite Duras than a movie on a family's internal relationships, this intriguing story focuses on Ernesto, a seven-year-old (played by the adult Alexander Bougosslavsky) who leaves school after several weeks because he is not interested in learning. Read More

1984
La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

5/15/82
Guy De Maupassant

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe

Synopsis: This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes Read More

1982
Sezona Mira U Parizu

Actors: Maria Schneider, Dragan Nikolic, Alain Noury, Alida Valli, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good. They are both survivors from Nazi concentration camps which automatically gives them a kindred understanding. Their past comes back Read More

1981
Signe Furax

Actors: Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Darras, Dany Saval, Mylène Demongeot

1980
L'Oeil du Maitre

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Olivier Granier, Dominique Laffin, Marina Vlady, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc (Patrick Chesnais) is a leftist and leans more towards militancy than compromise in his work at a Paris television station. Unlike Marc, his friend Françoise (Olivier Granier) is Read More

1980
L'Honorable Societe

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Anicée Alvina, Marcel Dalio, Hugues Quester

1978
Nous Irons Tous au Paradis

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a quartet of four married, middle-class men attempting to deal with the onset of middle-age. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Un Linceul n'a Pas de Poches

Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky). Unfortunately, his newspaper is owned by corporations which like to keep things on an even keel, and his stories are often "spiked," (kept quiet). Frustrated, he leaves the Read More

1974
Trop C'est Trop

Actors: Didier Kaminka, Philippe Ogouz, Georges Beller, Claudia Wells, Claude Jade

Synopsis: In this madcap comedy, a completely unavailable girl is the object of the fantasies of three guys who have been pals for years. They eventually follow her (literally) to heaven and hell, but satisfaction does not attend their efforts. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Polizia E Al Servizio Del Cittadino

9/6/73
Far from Dallas

Synopsis: This French thriller is based upon a theory about the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. The story begins as a reporter is informed that one of his friends may have been shot by two gunmen in an American car. The reporter goes out looking for his friend, who did not die after the Read More

1972
Murmur of the Heart

Actors: Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Benoit Ferreux, Marc Wincourt

Synopsis: Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the Read More

4/28/71
Christa

Actors: Birthe Tove

Synopsis: In this Danish movie by an American director, Birthe Tove plays Christa, a ravishingly beautiful airline stewardess who lives, it seems, to seduce men. Her seductions include men whom she is not able to take to her bed. All of these men are stunned by her beauty and her aggressiveness, and serve Read More

1971
La Servante

Actors: France Anglade, Daniel Gélin, Ulla Jacobsson, Gisella Hahn

Synopsis: A French couple's marital bliss is interrupted by the presence of a pretty young maid. The husband (Daniel Gelin) is a successful doctor whose wife (Ulla Jacobson) hires Aline (France Anglade), a young provincial girl. She masturbates while the couple makes love one night, and the wife is always Read More

1970
Slogan

Actors: Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Andréa Parisy, Juliet Berto, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: A successful ad man engages in illicit affairs in this romantic comedy satire. Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is an annual winner at the advertising awards festival held annually in Venice. When he meets the pretty British woman Evelyne (Jane Birkin), he sets her up in an apartment and plans to leave Read More

1969
La Treve

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Charles Denner, Virginie Vignon

Synopsis: Two vacationing businessmen -- or are they gangsters? -- inflict endless humiliations upon one another by way of their henchmen and women in this offbeat comedy, as they make their way to a chateau on a stolen invitation to play in a high-stakes poker game. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
Hallucinations Sadiques

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Sabine Sun, Jean-Claude Bercq, Anouk Ferjac

1969
Detruire, Dit-Elle

Actors: Catherine Sellers, Nicole Hiss, Henri Garcin, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation. The forest represents the world outside their experiences and spheres of influence. When they enter the forest, their thoughts, words and actions become one. The married Read More

1969
Le Mois Le Plus Beau

Actors: Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Magali Noël, Yves Robert, Muriel Baptiste

Synopsis: A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is pregnant, but the father is the son of the local mayor, who refuses to let his son marry the girl. When Italy declares war on France, two Italian workers are nearly lynched by Read More

1968
Zeugin Aus Der Hoelle

Actors: Irene Papas, Heinz Drache, Daniel Gélin, Werner Peters, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: In this drama, a Yugoslavian journalist is hired by a German policeman to find the last surviving ex-inmate of a concentration camp. The cops want her because they believe she witnessed atrocities at the hands of the camp physician. The journalist finds her and the cops and prosecutors try to Read More

1967
Soleil Noir

Actors: Michele Mercier, Daniel Gélin, Valentina Cortese, Jean Topart

Synopsis: Michele Mercier, leading lady of many a quasi-erotic Angelique film, stars in the French Black Sun. This time Mercier plays a young Gallic heiress. She's in Algeria, looking for her long-lost brother. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes her way from every nook and cranny. Valentina Cortese Read More

12/10/66
Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

1966
L'Heure de la verite

Synopsis: Originally L'Heure de la Verte, the French Hour of Truth Stars Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand and Karl Boehm. At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure. The only way out would seem to be Read More

1966
Ligne De Demarcation

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by Claude Chabrol. Mary (Jean Seberg) is willing to risk her life to help the resistance movement in spite of her husband's acceptance of the situation. The movement is slowed Read More

1966
À Belles Dents

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jacques Charrier, Paul Hubschmid, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Eva Mireille Darc is an orphaned country girl who comes to the big city looking for love in this old-fashioned melodrama. Getting a job as an au pair, Eva is noticed by her employer, a fashion photographer. She becomes a cover-girl model and finds steady work and a steady architect boyfriend, but Read More

1966
The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

11/17/65
Parodie Parade

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Vera Norman, Daniel Gélin, Anne Campion

1965
El Nino y el Muro

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Nino del Arco, Linda Christian

Synopsis: A five-year-old boy playing in West Germany accidently kicks his ball through a hole in the Berlin wall in this children's story that is a thinly disguised political statement. Unable to retrieve his favorite toy, he watches as East German children delight in playing with the ball. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

1965
La Bonne Soupe

Actors: Marie Bell, Annie Girardot, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and Read More

1/29/64
The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

1962
Reglements De Compte

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Dany Carrel, Noël Roquevert, Bryant Halliday

1962
Cartagine in Fiamme

Actors: Anne Heywood, José Suárez, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Ilaria Occhini

Synopsis: This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director Carmine Gallone. The tale is set in 200 BC when Rome and Carthage were going at it, sending warships into battle over control of Carthage. Against this backdrop of warfare Read More

1/29/60
La Morte Saison des Amours

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Prevost, Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: A routine, wordy romantic drama about far-from-routine relationships, this tale by Pierre Kast looks at the personalities and love life of two couples. One couple is comprised of a writer and his wife, the writer being egocentric and out of inspiration after his one good novel. His wife is Read More

1960
Reveille-Toi Cherie

Actors: François Perier, Daniel Gélin, Geneviève Cluny

Synopsis: Claude Magnier translated his stage play into this routine film which given its source, runs to words over action and visual nuances. The premise provides enough fodder to keep conversation going for some time, however. A man is driving in the countryside when he has car trouble and is forced to Read More

1960
The Testament of Orpheus

Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermit, Yul Brynner, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier

Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More

1960
La Proie Pour L'ombre

Actors: Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin, Christian Marquand, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: Director Alexandre Astruc is known for his abstract, avant-garde works such as this interesting film about a woman longing for independence. Anna (Annie Girardon) is married to Eric (Daniel Gelin) who has old-fashioned ideas about a woman never working (outside the home, that is). But Eric is also Read More

1960
Port of Desire

Synopsis: In this tragedy, a sailor heads to Hamburg to search for the girl who became his friend a decade before when he had been a POW in Germany. He finds her in the red-light district, the Reeperbahn, where she works as a mud-wrestler in a crummy dive. She hates her job, and she hates the seedy Read More

1960
Julie the Redhead

Synopsis: Sly and greedy young people endeavor to use l'amour to get their hands on a fortune in this French comedy. The story begins when an aspiring young artist falls hopelessly in love with his model Julie, an extraordinarily beautiful redhead. He desperately wants to marry her, but his father Read More

1959
Julie La Rousse

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Pascale Petit, Rene-Louis Lafforgue, Margo Lion

Synopsis: Released in 1963 in the U.S. under the title Julie the Redhead, this average yarn by director Claude Boissol begins with a first generation love story that is intentionally repeated in the second generation. When an artist falls in love with his model, he wants no more than to marry her and live Read More