Marcel Dalio (17 July 1900, Paris – 20 November 1983) was a French character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game.
Dalio was born Israel Moshe Blauschild in Paris to Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents. He performed in cabarets, revues and stage plays in the 1920s and acted in French films in the 1930s. After divorcing his first wife, he married seventeen-year-old actress Madeleine LeBeau in 1938.
In June 1940, LeBeau and Dalio left Paris ahead of the invading German army and reached Lisbon. It took them two months to get visas to Chile. However, when their ship stopped in Mexico, they were stranded (along with around 200 other passengers) when the visas they had purchased turned out to be forgeries. Eventually they were able to get temporary Canadian passports and entered the United States. Dalio's parents would later die in Nazi concentration camps.
In Hollywood, Dalio was never able to rescale the heights of prominence that he had enjoyed in France. Dalio appeared in 19 movies in America during the Second World War, in stereotypical roles as Frenchman. In German-occupied France, the Nazis used his picture on
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