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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

6.1

Self (archive footage)

Vadim Mister Cool

2016

3.0

Stanislas

Le Tiroir secret

1986

2.5

Victor

Farewell Fred

1985

6.1

Pierre

Next Summer

1985

4.7

Doctor Santano

Emmanuelle 4

1984

2.0

Chassé-croisé

1982

6.5

Jean

Choice of Arms

1981

6.0

Bertrand I

Le Beau Monde

1981

5.9

Victor

I Love You All

1980

6.0

Inspector Charboneau

Beggarman, Thief

1979

Credits

Vadim Mister Cool

as Self (archive footage)

2016

6.1

Le Tiroir secret

as Stanislas

1986

3.0

Farewell Fred

as Victor

1985

2.5

Next Summer

as Pierre

1985

6.1

Emmanuelle 4

as Doctor Santano

1984

4.7

Chassé-croisé

1982

2.0

Choice of Arms

as Jean

1981

6.5

Le Beau Monde

as Bertrand I

1981

6.0

I Love You All

as Victor

1980

5.9

Beggarman, Thief

as Inspector Charboneau

1979

6.0

Marrakesh Cult

as Père Peter

1979

3.0

Apocalypse Now

as Hubert de Marais

1979

8.3

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

as Georges Julienne, great reporter and writer

1979

6.3

Swimming Instructor

as Paul

1979

5.6

Evening in Byzantium

as Insp. DuBois

1978

0.0

🎬

The Sorceror's Apprentice

as Ashe / Bezzerides

1977

6.0

The Other Side of Midnight

as Armand Gautier

1977

5.9

Victory at Entebbe

as Captain Dukas

1976

5.0

Ciao! Manhattan

as Entrepreneur

1973

5.4

Heiß und kalt

1972

0.0

Candy

as Film Director (uncredited)

1968

5.1

The Road to Corinth

as Robert

1967

4.1

The Corrupt Ones

as Brandon

1967

5.0

The Flight of the Phoenix

as Dr. Renaud

1965

7.2

Lord Jim

as French Officer

1965

6.8

Behold a Pale Horse

as Zaganar

1964

5.9

How to Make a French Dish

as Lucien Volard

1964

4.5

Young Girls of Good Families

as Steve

1963

0.0

The Longest Day

as Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader

1962

7.6

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles

as Rodolphe

1962

0.0

Tales of Paris

as Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")

1962

4.8

Shadows of Adultery

as Bruno

1961

6.1

Playtime

as Philippe

1961

4.8

Schlussakkord

as Frank Leroux

1960

0.0

Sweet Deceptions

as Enrico

1960

6.1

Altas variedades

as Walter

1960

6.0

Tender and Violent Elisabeth

as Claude Walter

1960

0.0

Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

as Michel Rousseau

1960

0.0

I Spit on Your Grave

as Joe Grant

1959

5.0

Two Men in Town

as Pablo Morales

1959

0.0

Temptation

as Patrick

1959

3.7

End of Desire

as Julien de Lamare

1958

5.4

Sexpot

as Engineer Philippe Vincent

1957

0.0

No Sun in Venice

as Michel Lafaurie

1957

5.1

...And God Created Woman

as Antoine Tardieu

1956

6.0

Cinépanorama

as Self

1956

8.0

More Whiskey for Callaghan

as (uncredited)

1955

5.8

Lady Chatterley's Lover

as Pub Regular

1955

7.1

Love at Night

as Eugène Legrand

1955

6.0

Les Hommes en blanc

as Philippon

1955

0.0

Attila

as Capo degli Unni

1954

5.3

Human Torpedoes

as Paolo

1954

7.0

Senso

as Un Ufficiale Boemo

1954

7.2

Lucrèce Borgia

as Paolo

1953

3.9

La demoiselle et son revenant

as Le zouave

1952

0.0

Dirty Hands

as Dimitri

1951

4.4

Beauty and the Beast

as Footman (uncredited)

1946

7.5