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Christian Marquand

Christian Marquand

Actor · 1927 – 2000 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

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.

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  • Movie8.3

    Apocalypse Now

    1979 · 9.4K votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Longest Day

    1962 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie5.1

    Candy

    1968 · 85 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Emmanuelle 4

    1984 · 70 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Flight of the Phoenix

    1965 · 389 votes

  • Movie7.5

    La Belle et la Bête

    Beauty and the Beast

    1946 · 689 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Et Dieu… créa la femme

    ...And God Created Woman

    1956 · 271 votes

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  • Movie6.8

    Lord Jim

    1965 · 87 votes

  • Movie4.4

    Lucrèce Borgia

    1953 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Le choix des armes

    Choice of Arms

    1981 · 117 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Victory at Entebbe

    1976 · 27 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Quai des Orfèvres

    Jenny Lamour

    1947 · 201 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Behold a Pale Horse

    1964 · 43 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Die Hölle von Macao

    The Corrupt Ones

    1967 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Attila

    1954 · 24 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Altas variedades

    1960 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Senso

    1954 · 256 votes

  • Movie7.2

    L'Amant de Lady Chatterley

    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    1955 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.3

    J'irai cracher sur vos tombes

    I Spit on Your Grave

    1959 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Je vous aime

    I Love You All

    1980 · 29 votes

  • Movie5.8

    La Récréation

    Playtime

    1961 · 5 votes

  • Movie4.2

    La Route de Corinthe

    The Road to Corinth

    1967 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.0

    L'Île du bout du monde

    Temptation

    1959 · 4 votes

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  • TV8.7

    Cinépanorama

    1956 · 3 votes

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  • TV4.3

    Le Tiroir secret

    1986 · 4 votes

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