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 Marquands first film appearance was in 1946 as a footman in Jean Cocteaus Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête After a few more small parts he was prominently featured in ChristianJaques Lucrèce Borgia 1953 as one of Lucrezias lovers and as an Austrian soldier in Luchino Viscontis Senso 1954 In 1956 he was directed by Roger Vadim in And God Created Woman Et Dieu créa la femme opposite Brigitte Bardot That films 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 Zanucks 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 Coppolas reedited Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now Redux 19792001 His last performance was in a 1987 French TV miniseries He directed two films Les Grands Chemins 1963 and the allstar 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 Alzheimers disease aged 73 Source Article Christian Marquand from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30