Christian Marquand
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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
Credits
Apocalypse Now (1979)
as Hubert de Marais
Candy (1968)
as Film Director (uncredited)
The Longest Day (1962)
as Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
Altas variedades (1960)
as Walter
Emmanuelle 4 (1984)
as Doctor Santano
Lord Jim (1965)
as French Officer
Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
as Paolo
...And God Created Woman (1956)
as Antoine Tardieu
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
as Footman (uncredited)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
as Dr. Renaud
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
as Armand Gautier
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955)
as Pub Regular
Tales of Paris (1962)
as Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")
Swimming Instructor (1979)
as Paul
Attila (1954)
as Capo degli Unni
Choice of Arms (1981)
as Jean
Senso (1954)
as Un Ufficiale Boemo
Playtime (1961)
as Philippe
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses (1979)
as Georges Julienne, great reporter and writer
I Love You All (1980)
as Victor
Schlussakkord (1960)
as Frank Leroux
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
as Zaganar
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Captain Dukas
Heiß und kalt (1972)
Actor
Next Summer (1985)
as Pierre
I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
as Joe Grant
Temptation (1959)
as Patrick
Le Beau Monde (1981)
as Bertrand I
The Road to Corinth (1967)
as Robert
Young Girls of Good Families (1963)
as Steve
Jenny Lamour (1947)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Vadim Mister Cool (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
The Sorceror's Apprentice (1977)
as Ashe / Bezzerides
More Whiskey for Callaghan (1955)
as (uncredited)
Sweet Deceptions (1960)
as Enrico
How to Make a French Dish (1964)
as Lucien Volard
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
as Brandon
Human Torpedoes (1954)
as Paolo
Beggarman, Thief (1979)
as Inspector Charboneau
Farewell Fred (1985)
as Victor
Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
as Entrepreneur
Sexpot (1957)
as Engineer Philippe Vincent
Chassé-croisé (1982)
Actor
Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion (1960)
as Michel Rousseau
No Sun in Venice (1957)
as Michel Lafaurie
Dirty Hands (1951)
as Dimitri
Shadows of Adultery (1961)
as Bruno
Les Hommes en blanc (1955)
as Philippon
Marrakesh Cult (1979)
as Père Peter
End of Desire (1958)
as Julien de Lamare
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962)
as Rodolphe
La demoiselle et son revenant (1952)
as Le zouave
Tender and Violent Elisabeth (1960)
as Claude Walter
Two Men in Town (1959)
as Pablo Morales
Love at Night (1955)
as Eugène Legrand