Christian Marquand

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	Acting
Most Rating	8.676
Birthday	1927-03-15
Place of Birth	Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Also Known As	Christian Marquant,

The Flight of the Phoenix

Swimming Instructor

Victory at Entebbe

Emmanuelle 4

I Love All of You

Choice of Arms

Senso

The Sorceror's Apprentice

The Other Side of Midnight

I Spit on Your Grave

Sweet Deceptions

Who's Got the Black Box?

Behold a Pale Horse

Shadows of Adultery

Farewell Fred

Playtime

...And God Created Woman

The Corrupt Ones

Human Torpedoes

The Longest Day

End of Desire

Schlussakkord

Heiß und kalt

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

Altas variedades

Chassé-croisé

Temptation

Beggarman, Thief

Lucrèce Borgia

Sexpot

How to Make a French Dish

Ciao! Manhattan

Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

Marrakesh Cult

No Sun in Venice

Vadim Mister Cool

La demoiselle et son revenant

Next Summer

Les hommes en blanc

Tales of Paris

Le Beau Monde

Dirty Hands

Attila

Candy

Lord Jim

Evening in Byzantium

Young Girls of Good Families

Two Men in Town

Beauty and the Beast

Love at Night

Lady Chatterley's Lover

More Whiskey for Callaghan

Tender and Violent Elisabeth

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles