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.

Filmography

• 2023La Plus belle pour aller danser — Jean-Jacques
• 2022Country Cabaret — Léo
• 2021La Dernière Partie — Francis
• 2021Tout nous sourit — Henri Pottier
• Prière d'enquêter — Pierre Maillard
• 2019Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément — Pierre Maillard
• 2019Torn — Maurice
• 2019Wide Load — Le producteur
• 2018Looking for Teddy — Le beau Francis
• 2017Just to Be Sure — Bastien Gourmelon
• 2016Owl You Need Is Love — Père de Rocky
• 2015The Easy Way Out — Francis
• 2014Calomnies — Horace
• 2014The Dune — Paolo
• 2011La Résidence — Francis Sudre
• 2010Family Tree — Frédérick Muller
• 2010Un bébé pour mes 40 ans — Le père de Béatrice
• 2008Off and Running — Pierre Delage
• 2008Un crime très populaire — Mario Venturi
• 2007After Him — Francois
• 2006In Paris — Mirko
• 2006La Fille du chef — Edmond Martin
• 2006Paid — Giuseppe
• 2005Trois jours en juin — Edmond Valadon
• 2004Les Passeurs — Bernard Anthonioz
• Fargas — Fargas
• 2002My Wife's Name Is Maurice — Charles Boisdain
• 2002Stolen Tangos — Lamblin / Bastiani
• The Red Summer — Capitaine Le Brec
• 2001La Boîte — Pierre
• 2000Suite en Ré — Louis Roche
• 1999Fugue en Ré — Louis Roche
• 1996Beaumarchais the Scoundrel — Man at the Parliament
• 1996The Best Job in the World — Gauthier
• 1995The New World — Dr. Carrion
• Nestor Burma — Nestor Burma
• 1990Have a Nice Night — Commissaire Ottavioni
• 1990May Wine — Dr. Paul Charmant
• 1990My New Partner II — Guy Brisson
• 1990Want to Stay Alive — Ottavioni
• 1989Coupe franche — Favier
• 1989The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers — Bruno
• 1989Try This One for Size — Ottavioni
• 1989Un père et passe — Jacques Levasseur
• 1988Bonjour l'angoisse — Lambert
• 1988L'Île aux oiseaux — Bélisaire
• Sueurs froides — Fernand
• 1987Charlie Dingo — Charlie Dingo
• 1987Châteauroux district — Marc, aka Bebop
• 1987Grand Guignol — Baptiste
• 1987L'été en pente douce — André Voke
• 1987La Rumba — Ma pomme
• 1987Widow's Walk — Inspector Leroyer
• 1986Family Business — Maximilien Faucon
• 1986I Hate Actors — Egelhofer
• 1986Vaudeville — Gaston
• 1985Hold-up — Georges
• L'Homme de Suez — Ferdinand de Lesseps
• 1984Le Tueur triste — Simon
• 1984Led by the Nose — Romain
• 1984Petit Con — Bob Choupon
• 1984Stress — Alex
• 1983Deadly Circuit — The pale man
• 1983Entre Nous — Michel Korski
• 1982Les Sous-Doués En Vacances — Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis
• 1982Nestor Burma, détective de choc — Marc Covet
• 1982Santa Claus Is a Stinker — Music
• 1981Coup de Torchon — Marcel Chavasson
• 1981Heat of Desire — Max Moineau - un maquereau
• La Voie Jackson — Charlot
• 1981Le Syndrome de Cendrillon — Marc
• 1981The Inquisitor — Inspector Marcel Belmont
• Achtung Zoll — L'inspecteur Mathieu
• 1980Loulou — André
• 1979Swimming Instructor — Marcel
• 1978Dear Inspector — Beretti
• 1978L'Hôtel de la plage — Hubert Delambre
• 1978Take It from the Top — Le journaliste
• 1977La Mort amoureuse — Robert
• Le Cœur au ventre — Nino Cerreti
• 1976Let's Make a Dirty Movie — Bob Panzani, Original Music Composer
• 1976The Acrobat — Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé'
• 1976The Big Operator — Marcel
• 1975Cousin, Cousine — Pascal
• Le Pain noir — Darbois
• 1973Musidora — René Cresté
• 1972A Gorgeous Kid Like Me — Sam Golden
• 1971Rum Runners — Ronald / The Actor
• 1962The Longest Day — Parachutist (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (19)

• Call My Agent! — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Le monde est à vous — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Victoires de la musique — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• 1976The Honeymoon Trip — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Numéro un — Self, Self - Host
• Système 2 — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Cadet Rousselle — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• 1966Christmas at Vaugirard — Self
• Dim Dam Dom — Self
• Discorama — Self