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