Guy Marchand

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 SaintGermaindesPrés His military service was in an airborne troops division at the École des troupes aéroportées BETAP in Pau becoming a souslieutenant 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 JeanLuc 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 JeanCharles Tacchella 1975 and a cynical provincial garage man in Lété en pente douce by Gérard Krawczyk 1987 He published an autobiography entitled Le Guignol des ButtesChaumont 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia