1937-05-22 Paris, France
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.
 |
La Plus belle pour aller danser | Jean-Jacques | 2023-04-19 |
 |
Les Folies fermières | Léo | 2022-05-11 |
 |
La Dernière Partie | Francis | 2021-10-05 |
 |
Tout nous sourit | Henri Pottier | 2021-10-20 |
 |
Illégitime | Maurice | 2019-03-13 |
 |
Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément | Pierre Maillard | 2019-12-08 |
 |
Convoi exceptionnel | Le producteur | 2019-03-13 |
 |
Le Doudou | Le beau Francis | 2018-06-20 |
 |
Ôtez-moi d'un doute | Bastien Gourmelon | 2017-09-06 |
 |
Hibou | Père de Rocky | 2016-07-06 |
 |
L'Art de la fugue | Francis | 2015-03-04 |
 |
La dune | Paolo | 2014-08-13 |
 |
Calomnies | Horace | 2014-11-19 |
 |
La Résidence | Francis Sudre | 2011-05-24 |
 |
Un bébé pour mes 40 ans | Le père de Béatrice | 2010-06-06 |
 |
L'Arbre et la forêt | Frédérick Muller | 2010-02-16 |
 |
Un crime très populaire | Mario Venturi | 2008-01-04 |
 |
Passe passe | Pierre Delage | 2008-04-16 |
 |
Après lui | Francois | 2007-05-23 |
 |
Paid | Giuseppe | 2006-09-01 |
 |
La Fille du chef | Edmond Martin | 2006-01-24 |
 |
Dans Paris | Mirko | 2006-10-04 |
 |
Trois jours en juin | Edmond Valadon | 2005-09-19 |
 |
Les Passeurs | Bernard Anthonioz | 2004-10-04 |
 |
Ma femme s'appelle Maurice | Charles Boisdain | 2002-09-25 |
|
Tangos Volés | Lamblin / Bastiani | 2002-04-18 |
 |
La Boîte | Pierre | 2001-07-04 |
 |
Suite en Ré | Louis Roche | 2000-12-17 |
 |
Fugue en Ré | Louis Roche | 1999-04-02 |
 |
Le Plus Beau Métier du monde | Gauthier | 1996-12-11 |
 |
Beaumarchais, l'insolent | Man at the Parliament | 1996-03-20 |
 |
Le Nouveau Monde | Dr. Carrion | 1995-02-22 |
 |
Ripoux contre Ripoux | Guy Brisson | 1990-02-07 |
 |
Passez une bonne nuit | Commissaire Ottavioni | 1990-01-27 |
 |
Le Denier du colt | Ottavioni | 1990-02-24 |
 |
Les Belles Américaines | Dr. Paul Charmant | 1990-05-01 |
 |
Un père et passe | Jacques Levasseur | 1989-08-09 |
 |
Try This One for Size | Ottavioni | 1989-09-22 |
 |
Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants | Bruno | 1989-01-04 |
 |
Coupe franche | Favier | 1989-02-15 |
 |
Bonjour l'angoisse | Lambert | 1988-08-17 |
 |
L'Île aux oiseaux | Bélisaire | 1988-01-27 |
 |
Grand Guignol | Baptiste | 1987-02-25 |
|
Châteauroux district | Marc, aka Bebop | 1987-08-12 |
 |
La Rumba | Ma pomme | 1987-02-18 |
 |
Charlie Dingo | Charlie Dingo | 1987-10-07 |
 |
Noyade interdite | Inspector Leroyer | 1987-12-02 |
 |
L'été en pente douce | André Voke | 1987-04-29 |
 |
Conseil de famille | Maximilien Faucon | 1986-03-19 |
|
Vaudeville | Gaston | 1986-03-19 |
 |
Je hais les acteurs | Egelhofer | 1986-09-10 |
 |
Hold-up | Georges | 1985-10-23 |
 |
Stress | Alex | 1984-09-19 |
 |
La Tête dans le sac | Romain | 1984-10-31 |
 |
P'tit Con | Bob Choupon | 1984-01-18 |
 |
Le Tueur triste | Simon | 1984-12-21 |
 |
Mortelle randonnée | The pale man | 1983-03-09 |
 |
Coup de foudre | Michel Korski | 1983-04-06 |
 |
Les Sous-Doués En Vacances | Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis | 1982-03-10 |
 |
Nestor Burma, détective de choc | Marc Covet | 1982-04-14 |
 |
Garde à vue | Inspector Marcel Belmont | 1981-09-23 |
 |
Coup de torchon | Marcel Chavasson | 1981-11-04 |
 |
Plein sud | Max Moineau - un maquereau | 1981-04-29 |
 |
Loulou | André | 1980-09-03 |
 |
Le Maître-nageur | Marcel | 1979-03-28 |
 |
Tendre Poulet | Beretti | 1978-01-18 |
 |
L'Hôtel de la plage | Hubert Delambre | 1978-01-11 |
 |
Vas-y maman | Le journaliste | 1978-08-09 |
 |
La Mort amoureuse | Robert | 1977-11-16 |
 |
Le Voyage de noces | Self | 1976-04-21 |
 |
L'Acrobate | Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé' | 1976-03-10 |
 |
Le Grand Escogriffe | Marcel | 1976-11-27 |
 |
Attention les yeux! | Bob Panzani | 1976-02-17 |
 |
Cousin, Cousine | Pascal | 1975-11-19 |
 |
Musidora | René Cresté | 1973-12-29 |
 |
Une belle fille comme moi | Sam Golden | 1972-09-13 |
 |
Boulevard du Rhum | Ronald / The Actor | 1971-10-13 |
 |
Noël à Vaugirard | Self | 1966-12-23 |
 |
The Longest Day | Parachutist (uncredited) | 1962-09-25 |
