On December 15, 2023, singer and actor Guy Marchand left us at the age of 86. In more than sixty years of career, the man has experienced a thousand and one professional lives, being a pianist, saxophonist, clarinetist, then actor, and has played for dozens of great filmmakers, such as François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Claude Miller, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Marie Poiré, Edouard Molinaro. In 1982, he gained greater notoriety by signing the song Destinée, which he performed himself, for the film by Claude Zidi The Under-Gifted on vacation. In 1991, he became for France 2 Nestor Burma, a private detective that he will play for twelve years. He has also played in numerous other series, playing the main roles in TF1 police series Fargas And Traffic Operationswhile accepting a few small roles in Ten percent, Household scenes And Our dear neighbors these last years.
Despite a sparkling career, thanks to which he rubbed shoulders with a number of actors, directors, musicians and singers, Guy Marchand was buried this Wednesday, December 27 without any celebrity deigning to make the trip… As revealed by BFMTV, the actor and comedian was buried at the Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens cemetery in Mollégès in Bouches-du-Rhôneat the end of a mass in front of a hundred people, including relatives of the deceased, and dozens of fans who came to make the trip that the celebrities did not deign to make… A notable absence, that of Many fans of Guy Marchand strongly contested this.
He had been ruined for several years
“We are very sad to see that no one from show biz accompanied this great man, who was still a great actor and a great singer, a great musician, a very beautiful person” regret Mireille and Alain, who were fans of Guy Marchand for many decades. The singer’s children, Ludivine and Julesoffered their father a “festive and joyful” ceremony, in the presence of several musician friends with whom he had collaborated for Destiny, La passionnata And I am Tango. Married twice, he revealed in 2019 that he was separated from his second wife Adelina, a Russian model who left to rebuild her life in Germany. Overwhelmed by his passion for carsGuy Marchand had in this same interview given to Here is be “ruin” : “I’m in the red with my retirement, taxes at source, the way I spend my money and my passion for American cars!”