Christian Marquand

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-03-15 (73 years old)

Deathday

2000-11-22

Place of Birth

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Christian Marquand

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1965

1976

Victory at Entebbe

as Captain Dukas

1978

Evening in Byzantium

as Insp. DuBois

1984

Emmanuelle 4

as Doctor Santano

1981

1980

1954

Senso

as Un Ufficiale Boemo

1977

The Sorceror's Apprentice

as Ashe / Bezzerides

1977

1959

1960

1951

Dirty Hands

as Dimitri

1967

1954

Attila

as Capo degli Unni

1959

Two Men in Town

as Pablo Morales

1964

1968

Candy

as Film Director (uncredited)

1985

Farewell Fred

as Victor

1958

End of Desire

as Julien de Lamare

1946

Beauty and the Beast

as Footman (uncredited)

1961

Playtime

as Philippe

1955

Love at Night

as Eugène Legrand

1955

1965

Lord Jim

as French Officer

1955

1956

...And God Created Woman

as Antoine Tardieu

1967

1954

1962

The Longest Day

as Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader

1960

Schlussakkord

as Frank Leroux

1979

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

as Georges Julienne, great reporter and writer

1960

1979

Beggarman, Thief

as Inspector Charboneau

1959

Temptation

as Patrick

1953

1957

Sexpot

as Engineer Philippe Vincent

1964

1973

Ciao! Manhattan

as Entrepreneur

1960

1979

Marrakesh Cult

as Père Peter

1957

No Sun in Venice

as Michel Lafaurie

2016

Vadim Mister Cool

as Self (archive footage)

1985

Next Summer

as Pierre

1955

1962

Tales of Paris

as Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")

1981

Le Beau Monde

as Bertrand I

1979

Apocalypse Now

as Hubert de Marais

Production

1968

Candy

as Director

1963

1963

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