Guy Marchand

Known for ActingBorn 1937-05-22Died 2023-12-15Paris, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Fargas

Suite en Ré

Fugue en Ré

Un père et passe

L'Île aux oiseaux

Le Cœur au ventre

Spécial cinéma

Achtung Zoll

Musidora

Call My Agent!

Prière d'enquêter

La Mort amoureuse

Le Grand Échiquier

Dim Dam Dom

Discorama

Les Passeurs

L'Homme de Suez

Want to Stay Alive

Charlie Dingo

The Inquisitor

Numéro un

Le Pain noir

The Longest Day

Try This One for Size

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

La Fille du chef

Le Tueur triste

Un bébé pour mes 40 ans

Coup de Torchon

La Voie Jackson

La Plus belle pour aller danser

Champs-Elysées

The Acrobat

Just to Be Sure

Have a Nice Night

Entre Nous

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Torn

L'été en pente douce

The New World

Hold-up

Stolen Tangos

Tout nous sourit

Bonjour l'angoisse

Loulou

Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément

Nulle part ailleurs

In Paris