Guy Marchand

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.

Known For

Sam Golden

Une belle fille comme moi

Marcel

Le Maître-nageur

Inspector Marcel Belmont

Garde à vue

Pascal

Cousin, Cousine

Francis

La Dernière Partie

Guy Brisson

Ripoux contre Ripoux

Léo

Les Folies fermières

Gauthier

Le Plus Beau Métier du monde

Georges

Hold-up

Marcel Chavasson

Coup de torchon

Michel Korski

Coup de foudre

Mirko

Dans Paris

Pierre

La Boîte

The pale man

Mortelle randonnée

Gaston

Vaudeville

Maximilien Faucon

Conseil de famille

Baptiste

Grand Guignol

Le journaliste

Vas-y maman

André

Loulou

Lambert

Bonjour l'angoisse

Francois

Après lui

Ma pomme

La Rumba

Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances

Hubert Delambre

L'Hôtel de la plage

Marc Covet

Nestor Burma, détective de choc

Pierre Delage

Passe passe

Bob Panzani

Attention les yeux!

Frédérick Muller

L'Arbre et la forêt

Alex

Stress

Robert

La Mort amoureuse

Bélisaire

L'Île aux oiseaux

Jacques Levasseur

Un père et passe

Lamblin / Bastiani

Tangos Volés

Bruno

Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants

Dr. Carrion

Le Nouveau Monde

Inspector Leroyer

Noyade interdite

Charles Boisdain

Ma femme s'appelle Maurice

Bob Choupon

P'tit Con

Jean-Jacques

La Plus belle pour aller danser

Self

Le Voyage de noces

Beretti

Tendre Poulet

Simon

Le Tueur triste

Romain

La Tête dans le sac

André Voke

L'été en pente douce

Robert Pottier aka 'Ramon le Gominé'

L'Acrobate

Horace

Calomnies

Francis Sudre

La Résidence

Marc, aka Bebop

Châteauroux district

Commissaire Ottavioni

Passez une bonne nuit

Ottavioni

Try This One for Size

Man at the Parliament

Beaumarchais, l'insolent

Max Moineau - un maquereau

Plein sud

Père de Rocky

Hibou

Marcel

Le Grand Escogriffe

Ronald / The Actor

Boulevard du Rhum

Edmond Martin

La Fille du chef

Ottavioni

Le Denier du colt

René Cresté

Musidora

Bastien Gourmelon

Ôtez-moi d'un doute

Dr. Paul Charmant

Les Belles Américaines

Bernard Anthonioz

Les Passeurs

Giuseppe

Paid

Edmond Valadon

Trois jours en juin

Le beau Francis

Le Doudou

Egelhofer

Je hais les acteurs

Le producteur

Convoi exceptionnel

Maurice

Illégitime

Paolo

La dune

Louis Roche

Fugue en Ré

Louis Roche

Suite en Ré

Pierre Maillard

Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément

Henri Pottier

Tout nous sourit

Francis

L'Art de la fugue

Le père de Béatrice

Un bébé pour mes 40 ans

Charlie Dingo

Charlie Dingo

Self

Noël à Vaugirard

Favier

Coupe franche