2023-12-15 14:17:00
The artist born in Paris in 1937 “passed away peacefully” this Friday, December 15 at Cavaillon hospital (Vaucluse), his children announced. He notably played detective Nestor Burma on television.
He was one of the deans of French film sets. The actor and singer Guy Marchand, famous for his role as detective Nestor Burma on television, died this Friday, December 15 at the age of 86, his children announced to AFP. Guy Marchand, who played this Parisian detective character created by the novelist Léo Malet in a series from 1991 to 2003, “died peacefully this Friday […] at the Cavaillon hospital” (Vaucluse), his children Jules and Ludivine said in a press release.
In 2020, Guy Marchand confided during an interview with a TV magazine: “In this very closed world, people looked at me strangely because I was neither an aristo nor a businessman.”
Offstage, the man was a great polo player. During one of these games, he notably called the future King Charles III a “big ass”, who insulted him in return.
Guy Marchand had been battling health problems for several years, after overcoming tuberculosis as a child, then prostate cancer in 2002. On the Swiss television channel Léman Bleu, the survivor said last year : “There is nothing more boring than immortality”.
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