Christian Marquand
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.[1] He was often cast as a heartthrob in French films of the 1950s.
Career
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).
Personal life
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.[2]
Marquand died near Paris of Alzheimer's disease, aged 73.
Selected filmography
- Beauty and the Beast (1946) - Footman (uncredited)
- Quai des Orfèvres (1947) - Bit Part (uncredited)
- Les Mains sales (1951) - Dimitri
- La demoiselle et son revenant (1952) - Le zouave
- Lucrèce Borgia (1953) - Paolo
- Senso (1954) - Un ufficiale boemo
- Attila (1954) - Hun Leader
- Human Torpedoes (1954) - Paolo
- Men in White (1955) - Philippon
- Impasse des vertus (1955) - Eugène Legrand
- Plus de whisky pour Callaghan (1955) - (uncredited)
- L'Amant de lady Chatterley (1955) - L'amant de Bertha
- And God Created Woman (1956) - Antoine Tardieu
- No Sun in Venice (1957) - Michel Lafaurie
- Le désir mène les hommes (1958) - Philippe Vincent
- One Life (1958) - Julien de Lamare
- Temptation (1959) - Patrick
- Llegaron dos hombres (1959) - Pablo Morales
- J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1959) - Joe Grant
- Sergent X (1960) - Michel Rousseau
- Tendre et Violente Élisabeth (1960) - Claude Walter
- The Big Show (1960) - Walter
- Sweet Deceptions (1960) - Enrico
- Schlußakkord (1960) - Frank Leroux
- Love Play (1961) - Philippe
- Prey for the Shadows (1961) - Bruno
- Les Parisiennes (1962) - Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")
- Le crime ne paie pas (1962) - Louis Aubert (segment "L'affaire Fenayrou")
- Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962) - Rodolphe
- The Longest Day (1962) - Capitaine de Corvette Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
- Les saintes-nitouches (1963) - Steve
- La bonne soupe (1964) - Lucien Volard
- Behold a Pale Horse (1964) - Zaganar
- Lord Jim (1965) - the French Officer
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) - Dr. Renaud
- The Peking Medallion (1967) - Brandon
- Who's Got the Black Box? (1967) - Robert Ford
- Candy (1968) - Film director
- Ciao Manhattan (1972) - Entrepreneur
- Heiß und kalt (1972)
- Victory at Entebbe (1976, TV Movie) - Captain Dukas
- The Other Side of Midnight (1977) - Armand Gautier
- Les Apprentis Sorciers (1977) - Ashe / Bezzerides
- Evening in Byzantium (1978) - Inspector DuBois
- Beggarman, Thief (1979) - Inspector Charboneau
- Le Maître-nageur (1979) - Paul Jouriace
- Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses ! (1979) - Georges Julienne
- Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) - Hubert de Marais
- Brigade mondaine: La secte de Marrakech (1979) - Père Peter
- Je vous aime (1980) - Victor
- Choice of Arms (1981) - Jean
- Chassé-croisé (1982)
- Emmanuelle 4 (1984) - Docteur Santano
- Next Summer (1985) - Vierre
- Adieu Blaireau (1985) - Victor
Notes
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/02/guardianobituaries1
- p. 229 Ellis, Chris & Ellis, Julie The Mammoth Book of Celebrity Murder: Murder Played Out in the Spotlight of Maximum Publicity Berghahn Books, 2005