Christian Marquand

French actor (1927–2000)

Tina Aumont

(m. 1963; div. 1966)

Children1Relatives

Serge Marquand (brother)
Nadine Trintignant (sister)
Marie Trintignant (niece)

Christian Henri Marquand (15 March 1927 – 22 November 2000) was a French actor.

Early life

Marquand was born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, to a Spanish father and an Arab mother. He was the brother of actor Serge Marquand and filmmaker Nadine Trintignant.^[1]

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 actress Tina Aumont from 1963 to 1966. He had a son, Yann (born 1972), from a relationship with actress Dominique Sanda.

Marquand was a close friend of actor Marlon Brando, who named his son after him, as did director Roger Vadim.^[2]

Death

Marquand was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1985, retiring from acting two years later. He died from complications of the illness on 22 November 2000.^[1]

Selected filmography

Beauty and the Beast (1946) - Footman (uncredited)
Quai des Orfèvres (1947) - Bit Part (uncredited)
Dirty Hands (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 [fr] (1955) - Eugène Legrand
More Whiskey for 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 [fr] (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
Sergeant X (1960) - Michel Rousseau
Tendre et Violente Élisabeth (1960) - Claude Walter
The Big Show (1960) - Walter
Sweet Deceptions (1960) - Enrico
Final Accord (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 [fr] (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 ! [fr] (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

References

^ ^a ^b Bergan, Ronald (2 December 2000). "Christian Marquand". The Guardian.
^ p. 229 Ellis, Chris & Ellis, Julie The Mammoth Book of Celebrity Murder: Murder Played Out in the Spotlight of Maximum Publicity Berghahn Books, 2005