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.

Filmography

• Le Tiroir secret — Stanislas
• 1985Farewell Fred — Victor
• 1985Next Summer — Pierre
• 1984Emmanuelle 4 — Doctor Santano
• 1982Chassé-croisé
• 1981Choice of Arms — Jean
• 1981Le Beau Monde — Bertrand I
• 1980I Love You All — Victor
• 1979Apocalypse Now — Hubert de Marais
• Beggarman, Thief — Inspector Charboneau
• 1979Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses — Georges Julienne, great reporter and writer
• 1979Marrakesh Cult — Père Peter
• 1979Swimming Instructor — Paul
• Evening in Byzantium — Insp. DuBois
• 1977The Other Side of Midnight — Armand Gautier
• 1977The Sorceror's Apprentice — Ashe / Bezzerides
• 1976Victory at Entebbe — Captain Dukas
• 1973Ciao! Manhattan — Entrepreneur
• 1972Heiß und kalt
• 1968Candy — Film Director (uncredited)
• 1967The Corrupt Ones — Brandon
• 1967The Road to Corinth — Robert
• 1965Lord Jim — French Officer
• 1965The Flight of the Phoenix — Dr. Renaud
• 1964Behold a Pale Horse — Zaganar
• 1964How to Make a French Dish — Lucien Volard
• 1963Of Flesh and Blood — Writer, Director
• 1963Young Girls of Good Families — Steve
• 1962Tales of Paris — Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")
• 1962The Longest Day — Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
• 1962Un chien dans un jeu de quilles — Rodolphe
• 1961Playtime — Philippe
• 1961Shadows of Adultery — Bruno
• 1960Altas variedades — Walter
• 1960Schlussakkord — Frank Leroux
• 1960Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion — Michel Rousseau
• 1960Sweet Deceptions — Enrico
• 1960Tender and Violent Elisabeth — Claude Walter
• 1959I Spit on Your Grave — Joe Grant
• 1959Temptation — Patrick
• 1959Two Men in Town — Pablo Morales
• 1958End of Desire — Julien de Lamare
• 1957No Sun in Venice — Michel Lafaurie
• 1957Sexpot — Engineer Philippe Vincent
• 1956...And God Created Woman — Antoine Tardieu
• 1955Lady Chatterley's Lover — Pub Regular
• 1955Les Hommes en blanc — Philippon
• 1955Love at Night — Eugène Legrand
• 1955More Whiskey for Callaghan — (uncredited)
• 1954Attila — Capo degli Unni
• 1954Human Torpedoes — Paolo
• 1954Senso — Un Ufficiale Boemo
• 1953Lucrèce Borgia — Paolo
• 1952La demoiselle et son revenant — Le zouave
• 1951Dirty Hands — Dimitri
• 1947Jenny Lamour — Bit Part (uncredited)
• 1946Beauty and the Beast — Footman (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2016Vadim Mister Cool — Self (archive footage)
• Cinépanorama — Self