Christian Marquand Movies and Career Information

Christian Marquand (March 15, 1927 – November 22, 2000) was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant, and he can be seen as a heartthrob in French movies of the 1950s. He was first noticed in Christian-Jaque's Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as Lucrezia's lover picked up in Roma streets during Carnival, he is the next day pursued about through a forest like a game at bay by Lucrezia (Martine Carol) and her brother Cesare (Pedro Armendariz). In 1956 he was directed by Roger Vadim in Et Dieu créa la femme (And God Created Woman) opposite Brigitte Bardot. Marquand directed two pictures, the most famous of which was Candy (1968). Marquand was married to Tina Aumont in the 1960s. He died of Alzheimer's disease, aged 73.