Acting
Guy Marchand
FR, EN cinema · 81 credits
Born
22 May 1937
Died
15 December 2023 (aged 86)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
La Plus belle pour aller danser
as Jean-Jacques
La Dernière Partie
as Francis
Tout nous sourit
as Henri Pottier
Wide Load
as Le producteur
Torn
as Maurice
Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément
as Pierre Maillard
Looking for Teddy
as Le beau Francis
Just to Be Sure
as Bastien Gourmelon
Owl You Need Is Love
as Père de Rocky
The Easy Way Out
as Francis
Calomnies
as Horace
The Dune
as Paolo
La Résidence
2011
La Résidence
as Francis Sudre
Family Tree
as Frédérick Muller
Un bébé pour mes 40 ans
as Le père de Béatrice
Off and Running
as Pierre Delage
Un crime très populaire
as Mario Venturi
After Him
as Francois
In Paris
as Mirko
La Fille du chef
as Edmond Martin
Paid
as Giuseppe
Trois jours en juin
as Edmond Valadon
Les Passeurs
as Bernard Anthonioz
Tangos Volés
2002
Stolen Tangos
as Lamblin / Bastiani
My Wife's Name Is Maurice
as Charles Boisdain
La Boîte
as Pierre
Suite en Ré
as Louis Roche
Fugue en Ré
as Louis Roche
The Best Job in the World
as Gauthier
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Man at the Parliament
The New World
as Dr. Carrion
My New Partner II
as Guy Brisson
Have a Nice Night
as Commissaire Ottavioni
Want to Stay Alive
as Ottavioni
May Wine
as Dr. Paul Charmant
Un père et passe
as Jacques Levasseur
Try This One for Size
as Ottavioni
Coupe franche
as Favier
Bonjour l'angoisse
as Lambert
L'Île aux oiseaux
as Bélisaire
Grand Guignol
as Baptiste
La Rumba
as Ma pomme
Widow's Walk
as Inspector Leroyer
L'été en pente douce
as André Voke
Châteauroux district
1987
Châteauroux district
as Marc, aka Bebop
Charlie Dingo
as Charlie Dingo
Vaudeville
1986
Vaudeville
as Gaston
Family Business
as Maximilien Faucon
I Hate Actors
as Egelhofer
Hold-up
as Georges
Stress
as Alex
Petit Con
as Bob Choupon
Le Tueur triste
as Simon
Led by the Nose
as Romain
Entre Nous
as Michel Korski
Deadly Circuit
as The pale man
Les Sous-Doués En Vacances
as Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
as Marc Covet
The Inquisitor
as Inspector Marcel Belmont
Coup de Torchon
as Marcel Chavasson
Heat of Desire
as Max Moineau - un maquereau
Loulou
as André
Swimming Instructor
as Marcel
Take It from the Top
as Le journaliste
L'Hôtel de la plage
as Hubert Delambre
Dear Inspector
as Beretti
La Mort amoureuse
as Robert
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
as Bob Panzani, Original Music Composer
The Acrobat
as Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé'
The Big Operator
as Marcel
Cousin, Cousine
as Pascal
Musidora
as René Cresté
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
as Sam Golden
Rum Runners
as Ronald / The Actor
The Longest Day
as Parachutist (uncredited)