Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 15, 1927
Died
Nov 22, 2000
Place of Birth
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Credits
60 titles
Christian Marquand
Biography
Christian Marquand (15 March 1927 – 22 November 2000) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. Born in Marseille, he was born to a Spanish father and an Arab mother, and his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant. He was often cast as a heartthrob in French films of the 1950s. Marquand's first film appearance was in 1946, as a footman in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). After a few more small parts, he was prominently featured in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as one of Lucrezia's lovers, and as an Austrian soldier in Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954). In 1956, he was directed by Roger Vadim in And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme) opposite Brigitte Bardot. That film's success led to starring roles in the movies No Sun in Venice (1957), Temptation (1959), and The Big Show (1960) and leads opposite actresses Maria Schell, Jean Seberg, and Annie Girardot. In 1962, Marquand appeared as French Naval Commando leader Philippe Kieffer in Darryl F. Zanuck's World War II movie The Longest Day, which led to further roles in international productions such as Behold a Pale Horse (1964), Lord Jim (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). He appeared in feature films and television throughout the 1970s, and played a French plantation owner in Francis Ford Coppola's re-edited Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001). His last performance was in a 1987 French TV mini-series. He directed two films, Les Grands Chemins (1963) and the all-star sex farce Candy (1968). Marquand was married to French actress Tina Aumont from 1963 to 1966, marrying her when she was 17 and he was 36. In the 1970s, he lived with French actress Dominique Sanda, 21 years his junior, with whom he had a son, Yann. He was a close friend of Marlon Brando, who named his son Christian after him, as did French director Roger Vadim. Marquand died near Paris of Alzheimer's disease, aged 73. Source: Article "Christian Marquand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Vadim Mister Cool
Self (archive footage)
Le Tiroir secret
Stanislas
Farewell Fred
Victor
Next Summer
Pierre
Emmanuelle 4
Doctor Santano
Chassé-croisé
Choice of Arms
Jean
Le Beau Monde
Bertrand I
I Love You All
Victor
Beggarman, Thief
Inspector Charboneau
Beggarman, Thief
Inspector Charboneau
Marrakesh Cult
Père Peter
Apocalypse Now
Hubert de Marais
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Georges Julienne, great reporter and writer
Swimming Instructor
Paul
Evening in Byzantium
Insp. DuBois
The Sorceror's Apprentice
Ashe / Bezzerides
The Other Side of Midnight
Armand Gautier
Victory at Entebbe
Captain Dukas
Ciao! Manhattan
Entrepreneur
Heiß und kalt
Candy
Film Director (uncredited)
The Road to Corinth
Robert
The Corrupt Ones
Brandon
The Flight of the Phoenix
Dr. Renaud
Lord Jim
French Officer
Behold a Pale Horse
Zaganar
How to Make a French Dish
Lucien Volard
Young Girls of Good Families
Steve
Of Flesh and Blood
Director
The Longest Day
Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Rodolphe
Tales of Paris
Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")
Shadows of Adultery
Bruno
Playtime
Philippe
Schlussakkord
Frank Leroux
Sweet Deceptions
Enrico
Altas variedades
Walter
Tender and Violent Elisabeth
Claude Walter
Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion
Michel Rousseau
I Spit on Your Grave
Joe Grant
Two Men in Town
Pablo Morales
Temptation
Patrick
End of Desire
Julien de Lamare
Sexpot
Engineer Philippe Vincent
No Sun in Venice
Michel Lafaurie
...And God Created Woman
Antoine Tardieu
Cinépanorama
Self
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Pub Regular
More Whiskey for Callaghan
(uncredited)