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