Guy Marchand
Born: 1937-05-22 in Paris, France
Died: 2023-12-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2023
- La Plus belle pour aller danser as Jean-Jacques
2022
- Country Cabaret as Léo
2021
- Tout nous sourit as Henri Pottier
- La Dernière Partie as Francis
2020
- Prière d'enquêter as Pierre Maillard
2019
- Wide Load as Le producteur
- Torn as Maurice
- Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément as Pierre Maillard
2018
- Looking for Teddy as Le beau Francis
2017
- Just to Be Sure as Bastien Gourmelon
2016
- Owl You Need Is Love as Père de Rocky
2015
- Call My Agent! as Self
- The Easy Way Out as Francis
2011
- La Résidence as Francis Sudre
2010
- Family Tree as Frédérick Muller
- Un bébé pour mes 40 ans as Le père de Béatrice
2008
- Un crime très populaire as Mario Venturi
- Off and Running as Pierre Delage
2007
- After Him as Francois
2006
- In Paris as Mirko
- La Fille du chef as Edmond Martin
- Paid as Giuseppe
2005
- Trois jours en juin as Edmond Valadon
2004
- Les Passeurs as Bernard Anthonioz
2003
- Fargas as Fargas
2002
- The Red Summer as Capitaine Le Brec
- Stolen Tangos as Lamblin / Bastiani
- My Wife's Name Is Maurice as Charles Boisdain
2001
- La Boîte as Pierre
2000
- Suite en Ré as Louis Roche
1999
- Fugue en Ré as Louis Roche
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
1996
- The Best Job in the World as Gauthier
- Beaumarchais the Scoundrel as Man at the Parliament
1995
- The New World as Dr. Carrion
1991
- Nestor Burma as Nestor Burma
1990
- My New Partner II as Guy Brisson
- Have a Nice Night as Commissaire Ottavioni
- May Wine as Dr. Paul Charmant
- Want to Stay Alive as Ottavioni
1989
- Coupe franche as Favier
- The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers as Bruno
- Try This One for Size as Ottavioni
- Un père et passe as Jacques Levasseur
1988
- Sueurs froides as Fernand
- Bonjour l'angoisse as Lambert
- L'Île aux oiseaux as Bélisaire
1987
- Le monde est à vous as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Grand Guignol as Baptiste
- Widow's Walk as Inspector Leroyer
- L'été en pente douce as André Voke
- La Rumba as Ma pomme
- Charlie Dingo as Charlie Dingo
- Châteauroux district as Marc, aka Bebop
1986
- Family Business as Maximilien Faucon
- Vaudeville as Gaston
- I Hate Actors as Egelhofer
1985
- Victoires de la musique as Self
- Hold-up as Georges
1984
- L'Homme de Suez as Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Le Tueur triste as Simon
- Petit Con as Bob Choupon
- Led by the Nose as Romain
- Stress as Alex
1983
- Deadly Circuit as The pale man
- Entre Nous as Michel Korski
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Nestor Burma, détective de choc as Marc Covet
- Les Sous-Doués En Vacances as Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis
- Santa Claus Is a Stinker ... (Music)
1981
- Coup de Torchon as Marcel Chavasson
- Heat of Desire as Max Moineau - un maquereau
- The Inquisitor as Inspector Marcel Belmont
- Le Syndrome de Cendrillon as Marc
- La Voie Jackson as Charlot
1980
- Achtung Zoll as L'inspecteur Mathieu
- Loulou as André
1979
- Swimming Instructor as Marcel
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
- Dear Inspector as Beretti
- L'Hôtel de la plage as Hubert Delambre
- Take It from the Top as Le journaliste
1977
- La Mort amoureuse as Robert
1976
- Let's Make a Dirty Movie as Bob Panzani
- The Big Operator as Marcel
- The Honeymoon Trip as Self
- Le Cœur au ventre as Nino Cerreti
- The Acrobat as Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé'
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Système 2 as Self
- Cousin, Cousine as Pascal
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Le Pain noir as Darbois
1973
- Musidora as René Cresté
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- A Gorgeous Kid Like Me as Sam Golden
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- Cadet Rousselle as Self
- Rum Runners as Ronald / The Actor
1966
- Christmas at Vaugirard as Self
1965
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
1962
- The Longest Day as Parachutist (uncredited)
1959
- Discorama as Self