Christian Marin

Christian Marin

Birth : 1929-02-08, Lyon, Rhône, France

Death : 2012-09-05

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Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French film actor. Born in Lyon, he is best known for his role in Le gendarme series (as "Merlot"), although he did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the television serial Les Chevaliers du ciel, in which he portrayed the character Ernest Laverdure. Source: Article "Christian Marin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Christian Marin
Christian Marin

Movies

Dead Man Talking
L'aumônier
8pm in a rundown prison. A prisoner on death row will be executed. He has the right to make a final declaration. But the law doesn't stipulate how long he can talk. So, as long as he talks the execution is postponed…
Ten Minutes from Naturists
le voisin au balcon
Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They just did not know a small detail: Island Sunset is 100% nude! Meanwhile, the Levantains arrive in Brussels to promote a directive that could undress throughout Europe...
Le gang des seniors
Two Sunny Days
Didier
Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...
Quelle famille !
Papy
Sacré Noël
Décibel
Adolphe Masson Massonnet
Jean de la lune
Clotaire
Woodplum
Gaspard
Children find a baby in the forest.
Le coin tranquille
Jean
Le commando des chauds lapins
During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers.
There's a Bone in the Mill
Joseph
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
The Grand Duke's New Clothes
Le grand
Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke.
The Gendarme Takes Off
Albert Merlot
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Strogoff
Blount
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Le receveur escroc
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Le barman
The Gendarme Gets Married
Albert Merlot
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
hotelman
Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger)—but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
The Most Beautiful Month
Le sergent
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
William
In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.
Funny Money
Le touriste
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
The Sleeping Car Murder
le beau-frère
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
The Gendarme in New York
Albert Merlot
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot, who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
L'or du Duc
Le gendarme
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
The Buddies
Omer
La Mégère apprivoisée
Gremio
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Albert Merlot
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Cherchez l'idole
Marcel, tall police officer
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Bébert et l'omnibus
L'employé de la gare
Pouic-Pouic
Charles
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
La Foire aux cancres
Levasseur
The Reluctant Spy
Lecanut
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
Le Magot de Josefa
Pierrot
A Blonde Like That
Tous ceux qui tombent
Christy
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.
Crime Does Not Pay
Le Commissaire
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
La Gamberge
le caméraman
All the Gold in the World
un technicien TV
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
The American Beauty
Pierrot
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more
Small Local Trains
Léon
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…