
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.

Fargas

Le Grand Échiquier

L'Homme de Suez

エージェント物語

Prière d'enquêter

Garde à vue

Le Denier du colt

Try This One for Size

Coup de torchon

La Fille du chef

La Voie Jackson

Le Pain noir

Un bébé pour mes 40 ans

Coup de foudre

Beaumarchais, l'insolent

La Plus belle pour aller danser

L'Acrobate

Ôtez-moi d'un doute

L'été en pente douce

Champs-Elysées

Une belle fille comme moi

Loulou

Le Nouveau Monde

Hold-up

Cousin, Cousine

死への逃避行

Ripoux contre Ripoux

Dans Paris

Les Passeurs

Illégitime

Charlie Dingo

Dim Dam Dom

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Numéro un

Tendre Poulet

Passez une bonne nuit

Prière d'enquêter : Elli et Clément

Les Folies fermières

Tout nous sourit

Nestor Burma

Le Maître-nageur

Bonjour l'angoisse

Hibou

Nulle part ailleurs

Le Plus Beau Métier du monde

Noyade interdite

La dune

L'Hôtel de la plage

Passe passe

Le Doudou

Les Sous-Doués En Vacances

Vas-y maman

Stress

Je hais les acteurs

La Boîte

Plein sud

L'Art de la fugue

L'Arbre et la forêt

Calomnies

P'tit Con

La Tête dans le sac

Conseil de famille

Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants

Après lui

Ma femme s'appelle Maurice

La Rumba

Boulevard du Rhum

Le Grand Escogriffe

La Dernière Partie

Trois jours en juin

Nestor Burma, détective de choc

Convoi exceptionnel

Attention les yeux!

Grand Guignol

Victoires de la musique

Le Voyage de noces

Paid

Vivement dimanche

L'Été rouge

Les Belles Américaines

Coupe franche

Sueurs froides

La Mort amoureuse

L'Île aux oiseaux

Un père et passe

Le Tueur triste

Musidora

Fugue en Ré

Suite en Ré

Noël à Vaugirard

Achtung Zoll

Spécial cinéma

Cadet Rousselle

Le Cœur au ventre

Le monde est à vous

Discorama