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Daniel Gélin

Daniel Gélin

French actor, director, screenwriter
May 19, 1921 (November 29, 2002)
Fr. 1998. Social drama by Philippe Triboit with Danièle Delorme, Julie Judd, Daniel Gélin. A female principal discovers that the change in behavior of two model students is due to their family joining a cult.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1996. Fantasy comedy by Gérard Oury with Philippe Noiret, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Luc Bideau.
Runtime: 82 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1996. Social drama by Jean Marboeuf with Danièle Delorme, Julie Marboeuf, Daniel Gélin.
Runtime: 84 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 1994. Adventures by René Manzor with Lukas Haas, Alain Musy, Jimmy Herman.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1994. Social drama by José Pinheiro with Danièle Delorme, Alexis Derlon, Renaud Menager.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1993. Adventures by Thierry Donard with Fiona Gelin, Mark Twight, Edward Meeks. A television host brings together a group of risk-taking athletes for a show devoted to extreme sports stunts.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1993. Psychological drama by Jacqueline Veuve with Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Thomas Chabrol. A widow suffering from terminal cancer befriends a middle-aged man who keeps her company until she dies.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores comedy by Élie Chouraqui with Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jacqueline Bisset, Christine Boisson. At Christmas, a gathering of family and friends at a ski resort leads to various emotional intrigues.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Jacques Fansten with Daniel Gélin, Jean Carmet, Grégoire Colin. A group of retirees have an affair with two young delinquents whom they released from prison.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 1991. Police comedy by Jean-Paul Salomé with Magali Noël, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Daniel Gélin. Forty years after the end of their jazz band, five musicians, who all had an affair with the lead singer, are killed one after the other.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1991. Sketches by Hervé Palud, Alessandro Capone, Mathias Ledoux, Stéphane Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte with Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Micha Bayard. A psychiatrist recounts the misadventures of some of his clients.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1990. Satire by Didier Kaminka with Margot Abascal, Grace de Capitani, Thierry Lhermitte. In Paris, two employees of the postal service use their charms to quickly climb the corporate ladder.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1990. Mores drama by Régis Franc with Florence Pernel, Daniel Gélin, Yvan Attal. Feeling trapped in a world of men, a young girl seeks to leave her native Camargue forever.

Life Is a Long Quiet River

V.O.: La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Fr. 1987. Comedy by Étienne Chatiliez with Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Benoît Magimel. Switched at birth by a nurse, two children are raised in opposite environments to those of their natural parents.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1987. Mores comedy by Roger Planchon with Claude Brasseur, Zabou Breitman, Daniel Gélin. A wealthy peasant constantly embarrasses himself by trying to prove his young wife's infidelity.
Runtime: 113 min.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1984. Satire by Marguerite Duras with Axel Bogousslavsky, Daniel Gélin, Tatiana Moukhine. A seven-year-old child who looks forty astonishes his entourage when he decides to leave school.
Runtime: 94 min.

That Night in Varennes

V.O.: La Nuit de Varennes
Fr. 1982. History by Ettore Scola with Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla. In 1791, writer Restif de la Bretonne meets various characters in a stagecoach going to Metz.
Runtime: 150 min.
Fr. 1982. Biography by Michel Drach with Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Miou-Miou. The tumultuous life of French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Runtime: 131 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 75 min.
Fr. 1978. Psychological drama by Georges Franju with Daniel Gélin, Francine Bergé, Geneviève Bender.
Runtime: 67 min.

The Honorable Society

V.O.: L'Honorable Société
Fr. 1978. Drama by Anielle Weinberger with Daniel Gélin, Anicée Alvina, Yves-André Dulubac. A billionaire uses an elaborate subterfuge to attempt to unravel the mystery surrounding his wife's death.
Runtime: 81 min.

We Will All Meet in Paradise

V.O.: Nous irons tous au paradis
Fr. 1977. Comedy by Yves Robert with Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme. The joys and troubles of four friends in their forties.
Runtime: 111 min.
Fr. 1975. Comedy by Didier Kaminka with Didier Kaminka, Georges Beller, Philippe Ogouz. Three companions go in search of a childhood friend with whom they used to be in love.
Runtime: 83 min.

Far from Dallas

V.O.: Les Trois Morts de John F.
Fr. 1971. Drama by Philippe Toledano with Philippe Rouleau, Alexandra Stewart, Daniel Gélin. A French journalist searches for a friend who disappeared while investigating the circumstances of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Runtime: 95 min.

Murmur of the Heart

V.O.: Le Souffle au coeur
Fr. 1971. Psychological drama by Louis Malle with Benoît Ferreux, Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin. A teenager with a heart murmur must go on a trip to a spa resort with his mother.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1969. Psychological drama by Jacques-Paul Bertrand with France Anglade, Daniel Gélin, Ulla Jacobsson. A young provincial girl, a maid for her parents' friends, becomes her employer's mistress.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1969. Crime drama by Roy Kormon with Anouk Ferjac, Jean-Claude Bercq, Daniel Gélin. A young woman, who has come to decorate her lover's mansion, is the victim of a plot hatched by the man
Runtime: 85 min.

The Truce

V.O.: La Trêve
Fr. 1968. Police comedy by Claude Guillemot with Daniel Gélin, Charles Denner, Caroline Cartier. Pursued by three mobsters, two Parisian traffickers and their girlfriends go on a strange country trip.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Most Beautiful Month

V.O.: Le Mois le plus beau
Fr. 1968. Dramatic comedy by Guy Blanc with Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Muriel Baptiste. The misadventures of a brave carpenter upon his return to his village after his demobilization.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1968. Dramatic comedy by Pierre Grimblat with Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Andréa Parisy. A director of advertising films leaves his wife and daughter to go live with a young English woman.
Runtime: 100 min.

Is Paris Burning?

V.O.: Paris brûle-t-il?
Fr. 1966. War drama by René Clément with Gert Fröbe, Orson Welles, Bruno Cremer. At the beginning of August 1944, the new commander of Paris receives orders from Hitler to destroy the City of Light.
Runtime: 165 min.

Black Sun

V.O.: Soleil noir
Fr. 1966. Drama by Denys de La Patellière with Michèle Mercier, Daniel Gélin, Michel de Ré. An industrialist's daughter finds her older brother in Africa who has become a human wreck.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1966. War drama by Claude Chabrol with Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin. A spy, hidden from the Germans, manages to cross into the free zone.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1966. Drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit with Mireille Darc, Jacques Charrier, Daniel Gélin. An ambitious woman achieves fortune but not happiness.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1965. Dramatic comedy by Jean Delannoy with Gina Lollobrigida, Louis Jourdan, Muriel Baptiste. A playboy, held back by his daughter's problems, neglects his mistress.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1964. Psychological drama by Henri Calef with Karlheinz Böhm, Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand. A former SS man hides in Israel under the assumed identity of a Jew.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1963. Mores comedy by Pierre Kast with Françoise Arnoul, Michel Auclair, Françoise Brion. A crossroads of love between five couples spending a weekend with disillusioned friends.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1962. Crime drama by Pierre Chevalier with Daniel Gélin, Dany Carrel, Noël Roquevert. Criminals want to get hold of loot that has been hidden for the past fifteen years.
Runtime: 87 min.

Les Petits Matins

V.O.: Mademoiselle Stop
Fr. 1962. Comedy by Jacqueline Audry with Agathe Aems, Jean-Claude Brialy, François Périer. The adventures of a young girl who is hitchhiking.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1961. Psychological drama by Alexandre Astruc with Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin, Christian Marquand. A young woman struggles with her dependence on her husband and takes a lover.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Season for Love

V.O.: La Morte Saison des amours
Fr. 1961. Sentimental drama by Pierre Kast with Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Vaneck, Daniel Gélin. A crossroads of love between two young couples.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Jean-Charles Dudrumet with Félix Marten, Magali Noël, Pierre Mondy. A photographer agrees to help a friend to fake a jewel theft.
Runtime: 85 min.

Les Trois Belles du colonel

V.O.: Le Tre Eccetera del Colonnello
It. 1960. Comedy by Claude Boissol with Vittorio De Sica, Anita Ekberg, Daniel Gélin. The adventures of a colonel with the reputation of a womanizer who stops for a night in a small village.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1959. Sentimental comedy by Claude Boissol with Daniel Gélin, Pascale Petit, René-Louis Lafforgue. An industrialist disinherits his family in favor of a former mistress.
Runtime: 94 min.

Carthage in Flames

V.O.: Cartagine in fiamme
It. 1959. History by Carmine Gallone with Anne Heywood, Daniel Gélin, Jose Suarez.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1959. Drama by Luis Saslavsky with Daniel Gélin, Belinda Lee, Maurice Ronet. Two young men compete for the love of a prostitute.
Runtime: 94 min.

Port of Desire

V.O.: La Fille de Hambourg
Fr. 1958. Drama by Yves Allégret with Daniel Gélin, Hildegard Knef, Jean Lefebvre. In Hamburg, a French sailor tries to break a young woman out of the underworld, as she had been good to him while he was a prisoner of war.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1958. Comedy by Guy Lefranc with Daniel Gélin, Dany Robin, Noël Roquevert. A private detective falls in love with the girl he is in charge of following.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Gilles Grangier with Daniel Gélin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura. An actor who witnessed a murder is sued by the man he unjustly condemned.
Runtime: 85 min.

La Malfaitrice

V.O.: Retour de manivelle
Fr. 1957. Crime drama by Denys de La Patellière with Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin, Peter Van Eyck. In order to collect the life insurance of her husband who has just committed suicide, a young woman formulates a diabolical plan involving fake crime.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1957. War drama by Marcel Camus with Daniel Gélin, Anh Méchard, Lucien Callamand. In Indochina, a young Frenchman being pursued by traffickers takes refuge in a village of peasants and gradually becomes attached to them.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1957. Musical by Henri Decoin with Zizi Jeanmaire, Daniel Gélin, Henri Vidal. A music hall dancer dreams of a unique, lasting love.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1956. Thriller by Alfred Hitchcock with James Stewart, Doris Day, Daniel Gélin. Criminals kidnap a doctor's son to prevent him from revealing a murderous plot.
Runtime: 120 min.

Please Mr. Balzac

V.O.: En effeuillant la marguerite
Fr. 1956. Comedy by Marc Allégret with Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Bardot, Darry Cowl. In need of money, a young girl participates in a striptease contest.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1956. Musical by Ralph Baum with Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin, Adrian Hoven. Three bohemians who wanted to exploit a pianist become his friends.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1956. Crime drama by Victor Vicas with François Périer, Daniel Gélin, Bella Darvi. A young teacher witnesses a heinous crime and finds himself caught up in the vicious cycle of a miscarriage of justice.
Runtime: 102 min.

Napoleon

V.O.: Napoléon
Fr. 1955. History by Sacha Guitry with Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Michèle Morgan. A few moments in the life of Napoleon.
Runtime: 183 min.
Fr. 1955. Psychological drama by Henri Verneuil with Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Trevor Howard. A Frenchman expatriated after a murder falls in love with a woman suspected of murder.
Runtime: 105 min.

Maid in Paris

V.O.: Paris coquin
Fr. 1955. Comedy by Pierre Gaspard-Huit with Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin, Tilda Thamar. A young girl runs away from boarding school and falls in love with a police commissioner.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Snow Was Black

V.O.: La Neige était sale
Runtime: 110 min.

Woman of Rome

V.O.: La Romana
It. 1954. Drama by Luigi Zampa with Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin. Deceived by a married man, a naive young girl turns to prostitution.
Runtime: 76 min.

Les Gaietés de l'escadron

V.O.: Allegro Squadrone
It. 1954. Comedy by Paolo Moffa with Daniel Gélin, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Vanel. Life in the French cavalry barracks at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1954. Drama by Julien Duvivier with Daniel Gélin, Charles Vanel, Eleonora Rossi Drago. The son of a Swiss prosecutor seeks to correct a miscarriage of justice.

Sang et lumières

V.O.: Sangre y Luces
Fr. 1953. Drama by Georges Rouquier with Daniel Gélin, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Henri Vilbert. Having given up on going back into the ring, a matador gets convinced by an impresario.
Runtime: 78 min.
Fr. 1953. Historic chronicle by Sacha Guitry with Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Georges Marchal. Evoking three centuries of French history, from Louis XIII to Cl?menceau.
Runtime: 165 min.
Fr. 1953. Psychological drama by Yves Ciampi with Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Barbara Laage. A young pianist becomes a morphine addict after an accident.
Runtime: 99 min.

Voice of Silence

V.O.: La Voce del silenzio
It. 1952. Drama by Georg Wilhelm Pabst with Jean Marais, Aldo Fabrizi, Daniel Gélin. In a closed retirement home, four people try to solve their problems.
Fr. 1952. Psychological drama by Jean Delannoy with Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Daniel Gélin. A couple reflects on ten years of marriage.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1952. Psychological drama by Daniel Gélin with Daniel Gélin, Danièle Delorme, Louis Seigner. An ambitious journalist abandons his wife who temporarily abandons him.
Fr. 1952. Satire by Christian-Jaque with Daniel Gélin, Martine Carol, Danielle Darrieux. On his wedding day, a young man relives the many love affairs he had in the past.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1951. Sketches by Max Ophüls with Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud. The adaptation of three tales by Guy de Maupassant: ""Le Masque,"" ""Le Mod?le"" and ""La Maison Tellier.""
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1951. Psychological drama by Guy Lefranc with Louis Jouvet, Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin. A police officer's investigation brings to life the story of young lovers who committed suicide.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1951. Comedy by Jacques Becker with Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Jean Galland. After a quarrel, two young spouses separate.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1951. Drama by Fernand Rivers, Simone Berriau with Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Claude Nollier. In an imaginary country occupied by the Germans, a young bourgeois member of the communist party is charged with assassinating one of the leaders, accused of treason.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1950. Sketches by Max Ophüls with Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani. A playmaker presents a series of love stories in 1900s Vienna.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 1950. Religious drama by Jean Delannoy with Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Robinson, Daniel Gélin. On the island of Sein, a sacristan temporarily occupies the vacant place left by the departure of the priest.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1949. Moral study by Jacques Becker with Daniel Gélin, Nicole Courcel, Brigitte Auber. The clashes of some young Parisians with their parents.
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1947. Crime drama by Raymond Lamy with Jean Gabin, Antonin Berval, Colette Mars. A wealthy and respectable financier by day, a Parisian businessperson turns out to be a powerful mob boss by night.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1947. Crime drama by Louis Cuny with Yves Furet, Jean Debucourt, Simone Sylvestre. A police officer seeks to track down criminals who specialize in stealing works of art.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1946. Drama by Georges Lacombe with Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Marcel Herrand. An entrepreneur kills the woman he loves to prevent her from marrying another man.
Runtime: 76 min.
Runtime: 125 min.
Runtime: 93 min.

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