Christian Marquand
Nacimiento : 1927-03-15, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Muerte : 2000-11-22
Historia
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.
Marquand's first film appearance was in 1946, as a footman in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). After a few more small parts, he was prominently featured in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as one of Lucrezia's lovers, and as an Austrian soldier in Luchino Visconti's Senso (1954).
In 1956, he was directed by Roger Vadim in And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme) opposite Brigitte Bardot. That film's 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. Zanuck's 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 Coppola's re-edited Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001). His last performance was in a 1987 French TV mini-series. He directed two films, Les Grands Chemins (1963) and the all-star 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 Alzheimer's disease, aged 73.
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Self (archive footage)
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
Victor
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
Pierre
Edouard es el patriarca de una gran familia: su segunda mujer, Jeanne, acaba de tener un bebé. Su hija mayor, Dina, vive con Paul, un dramaturgo; la suya es una apasionada relación bloqueada, sin embargo, por las insatisfacciones de la vida diaria. Otra hija Sidonie se enamora de Jude. Ambos son músicos, excepto que ella tiene fobia a actuar en público.
Doctor Santano
Tratando de huir de su pasado, Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) viaja a Brasil para hacerse unas cuantas cirugías plásticas, gracias a las cuales se convierte en una mujer nueva y rejuvenecida (Mia Nygren). Su nueva identidad irá también acompañada de un nuevo despertar sexual.
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
Jean
Mickey y Serge se acaban de escapar de la cárcel y caen en una emboscada preparada por un viejo enemigo. Serge resulta gravemente herido y le pide a Mickey que lo lleve a casa de un ladrón retirado, Noel, pero muere al poco de llegar. Mickey, de carácter agresivo y violento, amenazará la vida apacible que llevaba Noel junto a su esposa.
Bertrand I
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.
Victor
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. At 35, Alice is a career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and one-night stands.
Inspector Charboneau
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Père Peter
The crime squad follows a track that leads to a Morrocan drug and prostitution ring. They end up involved into an international school to form a mercenary army for non democratic governments.
Georges Julienne
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...
Insp. DuBois
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
Paul
Un cantante en paro es contratado como profesor de natación en la Costa Azul por un millonario paralítico y tiránico.
Ashe / Bezzerides
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
Armand Gautier
Noelle Page nació en Marsella donde se convirtió en una actriz de éxito. Durante su juventud mantuvo una relación con Larry Douglas, un hombre apuesto y seductor, pero en la actualidad está con uno de los hombres más poderosos del mundo, Constantin Demiris. Para sorpresa de Noelle, Demiris contrata a Larry, sin saber del affair entre éste y su mujer, que se siente incómoda con su presencia. La ex amante idea un plan para hacer que Larry sea despedido, pero fracasa porque acaba dándose cuenta de que aún lo ama. Su relación es imposible por partida doble, ya que Larry tiene una relación con Caherine Alexander, una francesa que trabaja como secretaria. Larry y Catherin no descansarán hasta acabar con todos los obstáculos que les impiden estar juntos, aunque eso implique un asesinato. Catherine, objetivo principal del maquiavélico plan, descubre casualmente la maquinación y huye. Más tarde Noelle y Larry serán procesados.
Captain Dukas
Un avión de Air France lleno de pasajeros judíos es secuestrado por la OLP. Los terroristas amenazan con matarlos si no se aceptan sus condiciones Mientras tanto, el gobierno israelí trata de evitar la tragedia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Entrepreneur
Warhol superstar and icon of sixties bohemia Edie Sedgwick delivers her final performance in this semiautobiographical look at the price of fame. Fiction and documentary—including snippets from Sedgwick’s own audio dairies—mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar (Sedgwick), a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral. Released after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, CIAO! MANHATTAN endures as a testament to Sedgwick’s unique magnetism and as a haunting elegy for the counterculture she embodied.
Film Director (uncredited)
Candy (Ewa Aulin) es una chica que ha llegado al mundo de manera mágica y ya crecidita. Estudiante ahora de una institución superior, cuando conoce al egocéntrico, pero celebrado poeta MacPhisto (Richard Burton), Candy aprende de él que, el deber de los seres humanos, es darse a los demás incondicionalmente y sin restricciones... y ella comienza a demostrar su aprendizaje entregándose a él cándidamente. Después, vendrá una serie de aventuras con un cirujano, un comandante de paracaidistas, un camarógrafo... y hasta un gurú, y Candy se dará generosa a los irreprimibles ímpetus machistas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Candy (Ewa Aulin) es una chica que ha llegado al mundo de manera mágica y ya crecidita. Estudiante ahora de una institución superior, cuando conoce al egocéntrico, pero celebrado poeta MacPhisto (Richard Burton), Candy aprende de él que, el deber de los seres humanos, es darse a los demás incondicionalmente y sin restricciones... y ella comienza a demostrar su aprendizaje entregándose a él cándidamente. Después, vendrá una serie de aventuras con un cirujano, un comandante de paracaidistas, un camarógrafo... y hasta un gurú, y Candy se dará generosa a los irreprimibles ímpetus machistas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Robert
Cuando una estación de radar estadounidense en Grecia es boicoteada con interferencias y un agente secreto de la OTAN es asesinado, todas las sospechas recaen sobre la viuda, que deberá buscar a los verdaderos culpables para probar su inocencia.
Brandon
Un espía norteamericano se halla en Hong Kong, cuando se apodera de un medallón antiguo y descubre que es el objetivo de varios grupos misteriosos.
Dr. Renaud
Un avión de carga se cae en una tormenta de arena en el Sahara con al menos una docena de hombres a bordo. Uno de los pasajeros es ingeniero aeronáutico, y se le ocurre la idea de reutilizar un ala que ha quedado en buen estado como base para otro avión que tienen que construir antes de que se agoten los víveres.
French Officer
Basada en la novela homónima de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), cuenta la historia de un oficial de la marina mercante que navega en el Patna, un barco de tercera categoría que transporta peregrinos musulmanes. Durante una tormenta y con el barco a punto de hundirse, Jim y el resto de la tripulación huyen del barco abandonando a los pasajeros. Pero, para su desgracia, cuando llegan a la costa descubren que el Patna ha sido rescatado.
Zaganar
Una vez terminada la guerra civil española (1936-1939), Manuel Artíguez (Gregory Peck), un popular miembro del maquis, abandona España y se refugia en Francia. Veinte años más tarde, el hijo de su mejor amigo, atraviesa la frontera para pedirle que vuelva a España y mate a Viñolas (A. Quinn), un sargento de la Guardia Civil responsable de la muerte de su padre. Pero Artíguez, hastiado de todo, no atiende la petición del chico. Sin embargo, cuando la madre del guerrillero cae gravemente enferma, Viñolas aprovecha la ocasión para tenderle una trampa. Este film estuvo prohibido en España hasta 1979.
Lucien Volard
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Writer
Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
Director
Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer (commando leader)
Reconstrucción con todo lujo de detalles de uno de los episodios claves para el desarrollo de la II Guerra Mundial: el desembarco en las playas de Normandía llevado a cabo por las tropas aliadas en junio de 1944.
Christian Lénier (segment "Antonia")
Bruno
Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Philippe
Una norteamericana que vive en un internado desarrolla una fascinación por un escultor al que ve subida al muro del colegio. La amante de éste le anima a seducir a la colegiala. Una mañana, la joven es testigo de un accidente de coche en que un soldado resulta muerto. El conductor escapa...
Frank Leroux
Enrico
Francesca tiene diecisiete años y está empezando a interesarse por los hombres. Le gusta Enrico, un vecino suyo al que puede ver desde su ventana. Es arquitecto, divorciado y mucho mayor que ella. Un día la invita a comer, pero ella no se atreve a aceptar la invitación.
Walter
Una inmigrante húngara (Ilona) llega a Barcelona y acaba en un circo en el que conoce a dos hombres que rivalizan por su amor. Uno cabal y tranquilo, el otro un seductor empedernido. Triangulo amoroso, pasión, celos, engaño y una venganza.
Michel Rousseau
A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to find his wife has remarried, to a former paratrooper who tries to drive a stolen truck back from Morocco and suffers an accident -- and the same fate as the Russian. As a result of his injuries and the subsequent delay, the ex-military man is unable to get home as scheduled, and the woman he loves decides that he has left her. Once she "realizes" that supposed truth, she decides to marry her boss. As in the earlier film, one of the protagonists ends up in the French Foreign Legion and all three head toward a fateful meeting in a North African desert.
Joe Grant
Joe Grant, a light-skinned African American, heads to a small Southern town to investigate the lynching death of his brother. He draws the attention of a gorgeous heiress whom he learns may have been involved in the killing.
Patrick
Tres mujeres y un hombre quedan aislados en una isla desierta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hombre no tiene otro remedio que mantener relaciones con las tres, hasta que la tragedia estalla...
Julien de Lamare
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Engineer Philippe Vincent
The lives of three young men and a woman collide in Calais.
Michel Lafaurie
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
Antoine Tardieu
St. Tropez. Juliette Hardy es una huérfana de dieciocho años, sexualmente muy precoz y activa. Eric carradine, un hombre rico y maduro, se siente muy atraído por ella. Pero Juliette está enamorada de Antoine Tardieu, un joven que trabaja en Toulon y es el hijo mayor de una familia humilde que posee un pequeño astillero. El problema es que Antoine sólo quiere tener una breve aventura con ella. Cuando los padres adoptivos de Juliette deciden, en vista de la mala reputación de la chica, que vuelva al orfanato, el hermano de Antoine, Michel Tardieu, le propone casarse, ella acepta y comienza a amarlo. Pero cuando la familia Tardieu decide vender el astillero a Eric, Antoine vuelve a Saint-Tropez y renace la pasión de Juliette por él. Película que creó al mito erótico B.B. (Brigitte Bardot). El escándalo llegó con los desnudos de una joven sensual y perturbadora, lo que provocó que se censurara en muchos países.
Philippon
Capo degli Unni
Atila y sus guerreros arrasan el norte de Europa, reduciendo a todo el que se atreva a oponerse a ellos. Sólo la proverbial entereza del Papa Leo I convencerá a Atila de abandonar su devastador saqueo de la Península italiana...
Un ufficiale boemo
Año 1866. Livia, una bella dama de una aristocrática familia italiana, vive un intenso romance con el teniente Franz Mahler, un oficial del ejército austriaco, en plena guerra de independencia italiana frente a Austria.
Paolo
El ataque de la marina italiana a la marina británica anclada en Creta, en 1941.
Paolo
En la Italia del siglo XVI, Cesar Borgia planea el asesinato del marido de su hermana Lucrecia, pero ésta ha tomado un amante más poderoso, capaz de desafiar a los Borgia.
Le zouave
Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.
Dimitri
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
