Daniel Gélin
Born May 19, 1921 (Age: 104)
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Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Biography
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French actor. Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin. When he was ten, his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that sold cans of salted cod. It was seeing the shooting of Marc Allégret's film Entrée des artistes that triggered his desire to go to Paris to train to be an actor. He trained at the Cours Simon in Paris before entering the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique. There he met Louis Jouvet and embarked on a theatrical career. He made his first film appearance in 1940 in Miquette and for several years was an extra or played small roles in French films. He appeared with Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich in Martin Roumagnac (1946). He won his first leading role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). From that time, he went on to appear in more than 150 films, including Max Ophüls' films La Ronde (1950) and Le Plaisir (1952), Jacques Becker's Édouard et Caroline (1951), Sacha Guitry's films Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (1954) and Napoléon (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Jean Cocteau's Le Testament d'Orphée (1960), Le souffle au cœur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971), and La Nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (1982). He also wrote and directed one film, The Long Teeth, in 1952. Gélin was a leading man in French cinema during the 1950s, but his career declined with the coming of the New Wave. He worked in theater for several years, but later found new success on screen as a character actor. He appeared extensively in French films and television productions from the 1970s until his death, often playing cynical characters or grumpy old men. In 1946, Gélin married actress Danièle Delorme with whom he had a son, actor, director and producer Xavier Gélin. They divorced in 1954. While still married to Delorme, he had an affair with 17 year old model Marie Christine Schneider that produced a daughter, Maria Schneider. Due to his status as a married man, Gélin could not recognize Maria as his daughter. He visited the child several times but eventually severed his relationship with her mother. Maria Schneider and Daniel Gélin reconnected when she was sixteen and came to visit him. They remained in contact, although their relationship was irregular. Gélin was married to model Sylvie Hirsch from 1954 until their divorce in 1968. This marriage produced three children, Pascal (who died aged one year), Fiona , and Manuel, the latter two also becoming actors. In 1973, he remarried to Lydie Zaks with whom he had a daughter, Laura. Gélin died in Paris on 29 November 2002 of kidney failure. Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French actor.
Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin.
When he was ten, his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that sold cans of salted cod. It was seeing the shooting of Marc Allégret's film Entrée des artistes that triggered his desire to go to Paris to train to be an actor. He trained at the Cours Simon in Paris before entering the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique. There he met Louis Jouvet and embarked on a theatrical career. He made his first film appearance in 1940 in Miquette and for several years was an extra or played small roles in French films. He appeared with Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich in Martin Roumagnac (1946).
He won his first leading role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). From that time, he went on to appear in more than 150 films, including Max Ophüls' films La Ronde (1950) and Le Plaisir (1952), Jacques Becker's Édouard et Caroline (1951), Sacha Guitry's films Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (1954) and Napoléon (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Jean Cocteau's Le Testament d'Orphée (1960), Le souffle au cœur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971), and La Nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (1982). He also wrote and directed one film, The Long Teeth, in 1952.
Gélin was a leading man in French cinema during the 1950s, but his career declined with the coming of the New Wave. He worked in theater for several years, but later found new success on screen as a character actor. He appeared extensively in French films and television productions from the 1970s until his death, often playing cynical characters or grumpy old men.
In 1946, Gélin married actress Danièle Delorme with whom he had a son, actor, director and producer Xavier Gélin. They divorced in 1954. While still married to Delorme, he had an affair with 17 year old model Marie Christine Schneider that produced a daughter, Maria Schneider. Due to his status as a married man, Gélin could not recognize Maria as his daughter. He visited the child several times but eventually severed his relationship with her mother. Maria Schneider and Daniel Gélin reconnected when she was sixteen and came to visit him. They remained in contact, although their relationship was irregular.
Gélin was married to model Sylvie Hirsch from 1954 until their divorce in 1968. This marriage produced three children, Pascal (who died aged one year), Fiona , and Manuel, the latter two also becoming actors. In 1973, he remarried to Lydie Zaks with whom he had a daughter, Laura.
Gélin died in Paris on 29 November 2002 of kidney failure.
Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Filmography
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 88
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002
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as Abdel-Robert
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Age: 80
Une femme d'action
1997
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as Charles
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Age: 76
Obsession
1997
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as Xavier Favre
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Age: 76
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
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as le veuf
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Age: 75
Les Bidochon
1996
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as Le père Bidochon
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Age: 75
Ghost with Driver
1996
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as Le passeur (Le guide céleste)
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Age: 74
Pushing the Limits
1994
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as Le père de Fiona
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Age: 72
Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994
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as The gentleman from the beach
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Age: 72
Roulez jeunesse !
1993
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as Jean Moulinier
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Age: 71
No Image
De force avec d'autres
1993
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as L'autre lui-même
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Age: 71
Coup de jeune
1993
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as Gaudeamus at 70
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Age: 71
Un type bien
1991
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as Docteur Avril
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Age: 70
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
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as Roland Grumaud
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Age: 69
Mauvaise fille
1991
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as Fernand
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Age: 69
Promotion canapé
1990
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as Le responsable des inspecteurs de la Justice
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Age: 69
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990
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as Self
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Age: 69
Mister Frost
1990
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as Simon Scolari
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Age: 68
The summer of all sorrows
1989
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as papy
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Age: 67
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988
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as Pierre Duvivier, Albert's father
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Age: 67
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988
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as Docteur Mavial
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Age: 66
Dandin
1988
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as Monsieur de Sotenville
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Age: 66
Public Security
1987
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as Martino Morando
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Age: 66
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 65
Via Montenapoleone
1987
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as padre di Elena
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Age: 65
No Image
Pétition
1987
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as Stanek
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Age: 65
The Children
1985
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as Enrico
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Age: 64
No Image
Blitz
1985
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as Kellerman
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Age: 63
No Image
Un delitto
1984
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as Judge Freshville
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Age: 63
Season of Peace in Paris
1981
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as
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Age: 60
Signé Furax
1981
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as Broutechoux
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Age: 59
No Image
Schwüle Tage
1978
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as Vater
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Age: 57
The Suspended Vocation
1978
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as Malagrida
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Age: 57
La Discorde
1978
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as Bernard
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Age: 56
La Jalousie
1976
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as Albert Blondel
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Age: 54
Ariane
1974
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as The comedian
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Age: 53
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
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as Laurence
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Age: 53
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
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as Brera
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Age: 52
Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue
1973
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as Dupin
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Age: 52
Far from Dallas
1972
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as Jean
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Age: 51
No Image
Un enfant dans la ville
1971
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as Gustave, the bartender
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Age: 50
The Servant
1970
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as Dr. Robert Marbois
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Age: 48
Destroy, She Said
1969
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as Bernard Alione
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Age: 48
Sadistic Hallucinations
1969
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as Charles
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Age: 48
Slogan
1969
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as Evelyne's father
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Age: 48
The Most Beautiful Month
1968
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as Le capitaine
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Age: 47
The Truce
1968
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as Arno
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Age: 46
The Sleeping Car Murders
1965
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as Le vétérinaire titulaire, chargé de cours (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Uncertain Verification
1965
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 43
The Hour of Truth
1965
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as Davod
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Age: 43
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965
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as Gunther Smith
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Age: 43
Les murs
1964
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as François Bonjean
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Age: 43
Cherchez l'idole
1964
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as Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)
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Age: 42
How to Make a French Dish
1964
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as Raymond
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Age: 42
Three Girls in Paris
1963
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as Raymond
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Age: 42
Portuguese Vacation
1963
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as Daniel
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Age: 42
Règlements de compte
1963
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as Nicky
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Age: 41
Hitch-Hike
1962
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as le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"
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Age: 40
Réveille-toi, chérie
1961
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as Masure
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Age: 40
In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961
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as Un drogué
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Age: 40
The Season for Love
1961
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as Jacques Saint-Ford
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Age: 40
Shadows of Adultery
1961
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as Eric Kraemmer
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Age: 39
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
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as Lieutenant Miguel Villard
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Age: 39
Testament of Orpheus
1960
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as L'interne (non crédité)
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Age: 38
Carthage in Flames
1960
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as Phegor
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Age: 38
Julie la rousse
1959
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as Édouard Lavigne / Jean Lavigne
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Age: 38
This Desired Body
1959
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as Guillaume Féraud
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Age: 37
Follow Me Young Man
1958
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as Michel Corbier
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Age: 37
Port of Desire
1958
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as Pierre
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Age: 37
Three Days to Live
1958
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as Simon Belin
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Age: 36
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956
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as Bernard Cormière
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Age: 35
Good Evening Paris
1956
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as Georges Bernier / Self
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Age: 35
Plucking the Daisy
1956
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as Daniel Roy
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Age: 35
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
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as Louis Bernard
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Age: 34
Maid in Paris
1956
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as Antoine du Merlet
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Age: 34
Napoleon
1955
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as Napoléon Bonaparte
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Age: 33
Lovers' Net
1955
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as Pierre Roubier
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Age: 33
The Cheerful Squadron
1954
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as Frédéric d'Héricourt
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Age: 33
Woman of Rome
1954
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as Mino
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Age: 33
On Trial
1954
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as Léonard Maurizius
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Age: 33
Love in a Hot Climate
1954
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as Ricardo Garcia
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Age: 32
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 32
Public Opinion
1954
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as Paolo Jaier
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Age: 32
Stain on the Snow
1954
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as Frank Friedmayer
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Age: 32
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
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as Jean Collinet
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Age: 32
The Slave
1953
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as Michel Landa
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Age: 32
Rue de l'estrapade
1953
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as Robert
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Age: 31
Voice of Silence
1953
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as L'ancien prisonnier
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Age: 31
Les Dents longues
1953
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as Louis Commandeur
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Age: 31
God Needs Men
1950
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as Joseph Le Berre
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Age: 29
La Ronde
1950
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as Alfred, le jeune homme
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Age: 29
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945
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as Philippe Demantes
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Age: 24
L'Enquête du 58
1945
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as
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Age: 24
Soyez les bienvenus
1942
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as
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Age: 21
Strangers in the House
1942
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as (uncredited)
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Age: 20
Her First Affair
1941
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as Chauveau-Laplace (uncredited)
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Age: 20