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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 22, 1937
Died
December 15, 2023
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Guy Marchand
0.3 Popularity
Biography
Guy Marchand (22 May 1937 – 15 December 2023) was a French actor, musician, and singer. He appeared in over 100 films in over 30 years, but was best known for his role as the fictional television private detective Nestor Burma. Guy Émile Marchand was born in Paris, 19th arrondissement, the son of a scrap merchant and a housewife and grew up in Belleville, during the Occupation and contracted tuberculosis at the age of ten. Spending time in Sarthe in the country he learned to ride and kept a love of horses throughout his life. In Paris, he regularly went to the Danube cinema. While at the Lycée Voltaire secondary school in Paris he played the clarinet in night clubs in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. His military service was in an airborne troops division at the École des troupes aéroportées (BETAP) in Pau, becoming a sous-lieutenant – parachutist. He was assigned to the 3rd foreign infantry regiment as liaison officier during the Algerian war. As a parachute officer he was an advisor for the film Le Jour le plus long and entered the world of cinema. He made around 60 parachute jumps in his life. His first success however was as a crooner, with a popular hit of 1965 La Passionata, followed by other albums and singles. His film career mainly saw him in supporting roles; an inspector opposite Lino Ventura in Garde à vue, by Claude Miller won him a César in 1982 and the same year he was in Nestor Burma, détective de choc, by Jean-Luc Miesch, where Michel Serrault took the title role, but which Marchand later interpreted for over ten years in the television series Nestor Burma. Other important roles included Coup de torchon by Bertrand Tavernier (1981), with Philippe Noiret, Cousin, Cousine, by Jean-Charles Tacchella (1975), and a cynical provincial garage man in L'été en pente douce, by Gérard Krawczyk (1987). He published an autobiography entitled Le Guignol des Buttes-Chaumont in 2007 in which he wrote of his childhood, experiences in Algeria, his singing career and love for cars. Marchand died in Cavaillon on 15 December 2023, at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Marchand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.5
Jean-Jacques
La Plus belle pour aller danser
2023
5.8
Léo
Country Cabaret
2022
5.8
Henri Pottier
Tout nous sourit
2021
4.4
Francis
La Dernière Partie
2021
7.6
Pierre Maillard
Prière d'enquêter
2020
5.8
Pierre Maillard
Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément
2019
6.2
Maurice
Torn
2019
4.2
Le producteur
Wide Load
2019
5.4
Le beau Francis
Looking for Teddy
2018
6.4
Bastien Gourmelon
Just to Be Sure
2017
Credits
La Plus belle pour aller danser
as Jean-Jacques
2023
6.5
Country Cabaret
as Léo
2022
5.8
Tout nous sourit
as Henri Pottier
2021
5.8
La Dernière Partie
as Francis
2021
4.4
Prière d'enquêter
as Pierre Maillard
2020
7.6
Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément
as Pierre Maillard
2019
5.8
Torn
as Maurice
2019
6.2
Wide Load
as Le producteur
2019
4.2
Looking for Teddy
as Le beau Francis
2018
5.4
Just to Be Sure
as Bastien Gourmelon
2017
6.4
Owl You Need Is Love
as Père de Rocky
2016
5.6
Call My Agent!
as Self
2015
7.7
The Easy Way Out
as Francis
2015
5.1
Calomnies
as Horace
2014
5.0
The Dune
as Paolo
2014
5.5
🎬
La Résidence
as Francis Sudre
2011
0.0
Un bébé pour mes 40 ans
as Le père de Béatrice
2010
6.8
Family Tree
as Frédérick Muller
2010
5.0
Off and Running
as Pierre Delage
2008
5.4
After Him
as Francois
2007
4.7
In Paris
as Mirko
2006
6.0
Paid
as Giuseppe
2006
3.0
La Fille du chef
as Edmond Martin
2006
7.0
Trois jours en juin
as Edmond Valadon
2005
4.3
Les Passeurs
as Bernard Anthonioz
2004
6.0
Fargas
as Fargas
2003
10.0
My Wife's Name Is Maurice
as Charles Boisdain
2002
4.7
The Red Summer
as Capitaine Le Brec
2002
2.8
🎬
Stolen Tangos
as Lamblin / Bastiani
2002
5.0
La Boîte
as Pierre
2001
5.1
Suite en Ré
as Louis Roche
2000
0.0
Fugue en Ré
as Louis Roche
1999
0.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
The Best Job in the World
as Gauthier
1996
5.6
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Man at the Parliament
1996
6.6
The New World
as Dr. Carrion
1995
6.2
Nestor Burma
as Nestor Burma
1991
5.7
May Wine
as Dr. Paul Charmant
1990
2.4
Want to Stay Alive
as Ottavioni
1990
7.5
My New Partner II
as Guy Brisson
1990
6.0
Have a Nice Night
as Commissaire Ottavioni
1990
5.8
Try This One for Size
as Ottavioni
1989
7.1
Un père et passe
as Jacques Levasseur
1989
0.0
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
as Bruno
1989
4.7
Bonjour l'angoisse
as Lambert
1988
5.6
Sueurs froides
as Fernand
1988
1.0
L'Île aux oiseaux
as Bélisaire
1988
0.0
Widow's Walk
as Inspector Leroyer
1987
5.5
Charlie Dingo
as Charlie Dingo
1987
6.0
Le monde est à vous
as Self
1987
0.0
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
🎬
Châteauroux district
as Marc, aka Bebop
1987
4.0
L'été en pente douce
as André Voke
1987
6.4
Grand Guignol
as Baptiste
1987
3.4
La Rumba
as Ma pomme
1987
4.6
I Hate Actors
as Egelhofer
1986
5.2
🎬
Vaudeville
as Gaston
1986
3.5
Family Business
as Maximilien Faucon
1986
4.7
Victoires de la musique
as Self
1985
1.5
Hold-up
as Georges
1985
6.1
Le Tueur triste
as Simon
1984
0.0
Led by the Nose
as Romain
1984
4.8
Stress
as Alex
1984
5.2
L'Homme de Suez
as Ferdinand de Lesseps
1984
8.0
Petit Con
as Bob Choupon
1984
4.8
Entre Nous
as Michel Korski
1983
6.6
Deadly Circuit
as The pale man
1983
6.1
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
as Marc Covet
1982
4.2
The Under-Gifted In Vacation
as Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis
1982
5.4
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Coup de Torchon
as Marcel Chavasson
1981
7.0
The Inquisitor
as Inspector Marcel Belmont
1981
7.5
Heat of Desire
as Max Moineau - un maquereau
1981
5.1
La Voie Jackson
as Charlot
1981
7.0
Loulou
as André
1980
6.2
Achtung Zoll
as L'inspecteur Mathieu
1980
0.0
Swimming Instructor
as Marcel
1979
5.6
Take It from the Top
as Le journaliste
1978
5.2
Dear Inspector
as Beretti
1978
5.8
L'Hôtel de la plage
as Hubert Delambre
1978
5.4
La Mort amoureuse
as Robert
1977
0.0
The Big Operator
as Marcel
1976
4.5
Le Cœur au ventre
as Nino Cerreti
1976
0.0
The Honeymoon Trip
as Self
1976
3.2
The Acrobat
as Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé'
1976
6.5
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
as Bob Panzani
1976
3.6
Cousin, Cousine
as Pascal
1975
6.0
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Numéro un
as Self - Host
1975
6.0
🎬
Système 2
as Self
1975
0.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Le Pain noir
as Darbois
1974
7.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
Musidora
as René Cresté
1973
0.0
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
as Sam Golden
1972
6.2
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Cadet Rousselle
as Self
1971
0.0
Rum Runners
as Ronald / The Actor
1971
4.6
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Christmas at Vaugirard
as Self
1966
0.0
Dim Dam Dom
as Self
1965
6.0
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0