Georges Marchal

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Georges Marchal (10 January 1920 – 28 November 1997) was a French actor.

Born Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, the strikingly handsome Marchal was discovered in the early-1940s by director Jean Grémillon. By the early 1950s, he had become one of the top male stars of French cinema, second only, perhaps, to actor Jean Marais. He was also a favorite leading man of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, appearing in the director's films La voie lactée, Belle de jour, Cela s'appelle l'aurore, and La mort en ce jardin.

In 1951, Marchal married French actress Dany Robin and together they were a popular couple, playing in the movies La Passagère (1949), La Voyageuse inattendue, Le plus joli péché du monde, Jupiter directed by Gilles Grangier (1952), and Quand sonnera midi directed by Edmond T. Gréville (1958).

On television, Marchal played Claude Jade's father in the TV-series The Island of Thirty Coffins, and appeared as Richelieu, and Philippe IV, and in adaptations of Balzac, Hugo, George Sand and Colette.

Divorced from Dany Robin since 1969, Marchal married Michele Heyberger in 1983. He had two children, Robin and Frédérique. Marchal retired in 1989 and died, age 77, on 28 November 1997 in Maurens, Dordogne, France.

Filmography

=Film=

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable" \| Cast ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1941 \|Premier rendez-vous \|Jean de Vaugelas \|Henri Decoin \|Danielle Darrieux, Louis Jourdan \|Uncredited
rowspan=3\|1942 \|Le Lit à colonnes \|Olivier de Verrières \|Roland Tual \|Fernand Ledoux \|
The Man Who Played with Fire \|Bernard \|Jean de Limur \| \|writer: Pierre Bost
Summer Light \|Julien \|Jean Grémillon \|Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson \|writer: Jacques Prévert
rowspan=2\|1943 \|Vautrin \|Lucien de Rubempré \|Pierre Billon \|Michel Simon, Madeleine Sologne \|novel: Honoré de Balzac, screenplay: Pierre Benoît, Pierre Billon
Pamela \|René Bergerin \|Pierre de Hérain \|Fernand Gravey, Renée Saint-Cyr \|novel: Victorien Sardou
rowspan=2\|1945 \| False Alarm \|Bernard Dalban \|Jacques de Baroncelli \|Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle \|
Blondine \|Astara \| Henri Mahé \|Nicole Maurey, Michèle Philippe
1946 \| Dawn Devils \|Lieutenant Claude Legrand \|Yves Allégret \|Simone Signoret \|
rowspan=3\|1947 \|The Seventh Door \|Ali \|André Zwoboda \| \|
Torrents \|Yann Getersen \|Serge de Poligny \| \|
Bethsabée \|Capitaine Georges Dubreuil \|Léonide Moguy \|Danielle Darrieux, Jean Murat, Paul Meurisse \|novel: Pierre Benoît
1948 \|La figure de proue \|François Martineau \|Christian Stengel \| \|
rowspan=3\|1949 \|Last Love \|Alain Fontenay \|Jean Stelli \|Annabella, Jean Debucourt \|writer: Françoise Giroud
At the Grand Balcony \|Jean Fabien \|Henri Decoin \|Pierre Fresnay \|writer: Joseph Kessel
The Passenger \|Pierre Kerjean \|Jacques Daroy \|Dany Robin \|
rowspan=3\|1950 \|The Unexpected Voyager \|Marc Lanson \|Jean Stelli \| \|
The Last Days of Pompeii \|Lysias \|Marcel L'Herbier \|Micheline Presle \|
Thirst of Men \|Sergent Léon Bouvard \|Serge de Poligny \|Dany Robin \|
rowspan=4\|1951 \| The Prettiest Sin in the World \|Jacques Lebreton \|Gilles Grangier \| \|
Gigolo \|Marceau Le Guern \|Roger Richebé \|Arletty, Nicole Courcel \|writers: Jean Aurenche, Maurice Blondeau
The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue \|The Black Prince \|Paolo William Tamburella \|Rossana Podestà \|
Messalina \|Gaius Silius \|Carmine Gallone \|María Félix \|
1952 \|Twelve Hours of Happiness \|Jupiter' L'inconnu - l'évadé de lasile psychiatrique \|Gilles Grangier \| \|
rowspan=2\|1953 \|Les amours finissent à l'aube \|Didier Guéret \|Henri Calef \| \|
Les Trois Mousquetaires \|D'Artagnan \|André Hunebelle \|Yvonne Sanson, Gino Cervi, Bourvil, Claude Dauphin \|novel: Alexandre Dumas, screenplay and dialogue: Michel Audiard
rowspan=5\|1954 \|Royal Affairs in Versailles \|Louis XIV \|Sacha Guitry \|Sacha Guitry, Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, Édith Piaf, Jean Marais, Gérard Philipe, Micheline Presle \|Marchal plays the young Louis XIV - and Guitry the older king
Theodora, Slave Empress \|Justinian I \|Riccardo Freda \|Gianna Maria Canale, Irene Papas \|
The Contessa's Secret \|Lucio Falengo \|Georges Combret \|Yvonne De Carlo, Paul Meurisse, Rossano Brazzi \|
The Count of Bragelonne \|Raoul de Bragelonne \|Fernando Cerchio \|Dawn Addams, Jacques Dumesnil \|novel: Alexandre Dumas, adaptation: Alexandre Astruc
La soupe à la grimace \|Frank Keany \|Jean Sacha \|Maria Mauban, Dominique Wilms \|
rowspan=2\|1955 \| Eighteen Hour Stopover \|L'inspecteur Bério \|René Jolivet \| \|
Cherchez la femme \|Paul Mercier \|Raoul André \| \|
rowspan=3\|1956 \| The Adventures of Gil Blas \|Gil Blas \|René Jolivet \|Barbara Laage, Jacques Castelot \|novel: Alain-René Lesage
Cela s'appelle l'aurore \|Doctor Valerio \|Luis Buñuel \|Lucia Bosé \|novel: Emmanuel Roblès
Death in the Garden \|Shark \|Luis Buñuel \|Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli \|
1957 \|Marchands de filles \|Mister John \|Maurice Cloche \| \|
rowspan=3\|1958 \|Girls of the Night \|Charly \|Maurice Cloche \|Nicole Berger \|
Quand sonnera midi \|Michel Dumartin \|Edmond T. Gréville \| \|
The Warrior and the Slave Girl \|Asclepius \|Vittorio Cottafavi \|Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni \|
rowspan=4\|1959 \|Sheba and the Gladiator \|Consul Marcus Valerius \|Guido Brignone \|Anita Ekberg, Chelo Alonso, Gino Cervi, Jacques Sernas \|writer : Sergio Leone
Winter Holidays \|Georges Tardier \|Camillo Mastrocinque \|Alberto Sordi, Michèle Morgan, Vittorio De Sica \|
Wild Cats on the Beach \|Maurice Mont-Bret \|Vittorio Sala \|Alberto Sordi, Giovanna Ralli, Elsa Martinelli \|
Legions of the Nile \|Mark Antony \|Vittorio Cottafavi \|Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni \|
rowspan=3\|1960 \|{{Interlanguage link multi\|Prisonniers de la brousse\|fr}} \|Fred Hersant \|Willy Rozier \| \|
The Dam on the Yellow River \|John Bell \|{{Interlanguage link multi\|Renzo Merusi\|it}} \|Anita Ekberg \|
Austerlitz \|Maréchal Jean Lannes \|Abel Gance \|Pierre Mondy, Orson Welles, Jack Palance, Jean Marais, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio De Sica, Leslie Caron \|
rowspan=2\|1961 \|The Colossus of Rhodes \|Peliocles \|Sergio Leone \|Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari \|
Napoleon II, the Eagle \|General Gustav von Neipperg \|Claude Boissol \|Bernard Verley, Jean Marais \|novel: André Castelot
rowspan=3\|1962 \|Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules \|Ulysses \|Mario Caiano \|Mike Lane \|
The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan \|Duke of Montserrat \|Siro Marcellini \|George Nader, Magali Noël, Massimo Serato \|
{{Interlanguage link multi\|Le Naufragé du Pacifique\|fr}} \|Robinson Crusoe \|Jeff Musso \| \|
1964 \|L'étrange auto-stoppeuse \| \|Jean Darcy \| \|
1965 \|The Dirty Game \|Serge \|Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani \|Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Bourvil, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Vittorio Gassman, Peter van Eyck \|
1966 \|Dacii \|Cornelius Fuscus \|Sergiu Nicolaescu \|Pierre Brice, Marie-José Nat \|
1967 \|Belle de Jour \|Duke \|Luis Buñuel \|Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli \|
1969 \|The Milky Way \|The Jesuit \|Luis Buñuel \|Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff \|
1972 \|Faustine et le Bel Été \|Julien \|Nina Companeez \|Muriel Catala \|
1977 \|Closet Children \|Father \|Benoît Jacquot \|Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel \|
1982 \|A Captain's Honor \|General Keller \|Pierre Schoendoerffer \|Nicole Garcia, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Charles Denner \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable" | Cast

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1941

|Premier rendez-vous

|Jean de Vaugelas

|Henri Decoin

|Danielle Darrieux, Louis Jourdan

|Uncredited

rowspan=3|1942

|Le Lit à colonnes

|Olivier de Verrières

|Roland Tual

|Fernand Ledoux

The Man Who Played with Fire

|Bernard

|Jean de Limur

|writer: Pierre Bost

Summer Light

|Julien

|Jean Grémillon

|Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson

|writer: Jacques Prévert

rowspan=2|1943

|Vautrin

|Lucien de Rubempré

|Pierre Billon

|Michel Simon, Madeleine Sologne

|novel: Honoré de Balzac,
screenplay: Pierre Benoît, Pierre Billon

Pamela

|René Bergerin

|Pierre de Hérain

|Fernand Gravey, Renée Saint-Cyr

|novel: Victorien Sardou

rowspan=2|1945

| False Alarm

|Bernard Dalban

|Jacques de Baroncelli

|Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle

Blondine

|Astara

| Henri Mahé

|Nicole Maurey, Michèle Philippe

1946

| Dawn Devils

|Lieutenant Claude Legrand

|Yves Allégret

|Simone Signoret

rowspan=3|1947

|The Seventh Door

|Ali

|André Zwoboda

Torrents

|Yann Getersen

|Serge de Poligny

Bethsabée

|Capitaine Georges Dubreuil

|Léonide Moguy

|Danielle Darrieux, Jean Murat, Paul Meurisse

|novel: Pierre Benoît

1948

|La figure de proue

|François Martineau

|Christian Stengel

rowspan=3|1949

|Last Love

|Alain Fontenay

|Jean Stelli

|Annabella, Jean Debucourt

|writer: Françoise Giroud

At the Grand Balcony

|Jean Fabien

|Henri Decoin

|Pierre Fresnay

|writer: Joseph Kessel

The Passenger

|Pierre Kerjean

|Jacques Daroy

|Dany Robin

rowspan=3|1950

|The Unexpected Voyager

|Marc Lanson

|Jean Stelli

The Last Days of Pompeii

|Lysias

|Marcel L'Herbier

|Micheline Presle

Thirst of Men

|Sergent Léon Bouvard

|Serge de Poligny

|Dany Robin

rowspan=4|1951

| The Prettiest Sin in the World

|Jacques Lebreton

|Gilles Grangier

Gigolo

|Marceau Le Guern

|Roger Richebé

|Arletty, Nicole Courcel

|writers: Jean Aurenche, Maurice Blondeau

The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue

|The Black Prince

|Paolo William Tamburella

Messalina

1952

|Twelve Hours of Happiness

|Jupiter' L'inconnu - l'évadé de lasile psychiatrique

|Gilles Grangier

rowspan=2|1953

|Les amours finissent à l'aube

|Didier Guéret

|Henri Calef

Les Trois Mousquetaires

|D'Artagnan

|André Hunebelle

|Yvonne Sanson, Gino Cervi, Bourvil, Claude Dauphin

|novel: Alexandre Dumas,
screenplay and dialogue: Michel Audiard

rowspan=5|1954

|Royal Affairs in Versailles

|Louis XIV

|Sacha Guitry

|Sacha Guitry, Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, Édith Piaf, Jean Marais, Gérard Philipe, Micheline Presle

|Marchal plays the young Louis XIV - and Guitry the older king

Theodora, Slave Empress

|Justinian I

|Riccardo Freda

|Gianna Maria Canale, Irene Papas

The Contessa's Secret

|Lucio Falengo

|Georges Combret

|Yvonne De Carlo, Paul Meurisse, Rossano Brazzi

The Count of Bragelonne

|Raoul de Bragelonne

|Fernando Cerchio

|Dawn Addams, Jacques Dumesnil

|novel: Alexandre Dumas,
adaptation: Alexandre Astruc

La soupe à la grimace

|Frank Keany

|Jean Sacha

|Maria Mauban, Dominique Wilms

rowspan=2|1955

| Eighteen Hour Stopover

|L'inspecteur Bério

|René Jolivet

Cherchez la femme

|Paul Mercier

|Raoul André

rowspan=3|1956

| The Adventures of Gil Blas

|Gil Blas

|René Jolivet

|Barbara Laage, Jacques Castelot

|novel: Alain-René Lesage

Cela s'appelle l'aurore

|Doctor Valerio

|Luis Buñuel

|Lucia Bosé

|novel: Emmanuel Roblès

Death in the Garden

|Shark

|Luis Buñuel

|Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli

1957

|Marchands de filles

|Mister John

|Maurice Cloche

rowspan=3|1958

|Girls of the Night

|Charly

|Maurice Cloche

|Nicole Berger

Quand sonnera midi

|Michel Dumartin

|Edmond T. Gréville

The Warrior and the Slave Girl

|Asclepius

|Vittorio Cottafavi

|Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni

rowspan=4|1959

|Sheba and the Gladiator

|Consul Marcus Valerius

|Guido Brignone

|Anita Ekberg, Chelo Alonso, Gino Cervi, Jacques Sernas

|writer : Sergio Leone

Winter Holidays

|Georges Tardier

|Camillo Mastrocinque

|Alberto Sordi, Michèle Morgan, Vittorio De Sica

Wild Cats on the Beach

|Maurice Mont-Bret

|Vittorio Sala

|Alberto Sordi, Giovanna Ralli, Elsa Martinelli

Legions of the Nile

|Mark Antony

|Vittorio Cottafavi

|Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni

rowspan=3|1960

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Prisonniers de la brousse|fr}}

|Fred Hersant

|Willy Rozier

The Dam on the Yellow River

|John Bell

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Renzo Merusi|it}}

|Anita Ekberg

Austerlitz

|Maréchal Jean Lannes

|Abel Gance

|Pierre Mondy, Orson Welles, Jack Palance, Jean Marais, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio De Sica, Leslie Caron

rowspan=2|1961

|The Colossus of Rhodes

|Peliocles

|Sergio Leone

|Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari

Napoleon II, the Eagle

|General Gustav von Neipperg

|Claude Boissol

|Bernard Verley, Jean Marais

|novel: André Castelot

rowspan=3|1962

|Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules

|Ulysses

|Mario Caiano

|Mike Lane

The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan

|Duke of Montserrat

|Siro Marcellini

|George Nader, Magali Noël, Massimo Serato

{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Naufragé du Pacifique|fr}}

|Robinson Crusoe

|Jeff Musso

1964

|L'étrange auto-stoppeuse

|Jean Darcy

1965

|The Dirty Game

|Serge

|Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani

|Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Bourvil, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Vittorio Gassman, Peter van Eyck

1966

|Dacii

|Cornelius Fuscus

|Sergiu Nicolaescu

|Pierre Brice, Marie-José Nat

1967

|Belle de Jour

|Duke

|Luis Buñuel

|Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli

1969

|The Milky Way

|The Jesuit

|Luis Buñuel

|Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff

1972

|Faustine et le Bel Été

|Julien

|Nina Companeez

|Muriel Catala

1977

|Closet Children

|Father

|Benoît Jacquot

|Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel

1982

|A Captain's Honor

|General Keller

|Pierre Schoendoerffer

|Nicole Garcia, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Charles Denner

=Television=

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable" \| Cast ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1969 \|Tout pour le mieux \|Salvo Manfroni \|Jeannette Hubert \|Jean Desailly, Giani Esposito, Denise Grey, Eléonore Hirt \|play: Luigi Pirandello
1970 \|Le lys dans la vallée \|M. de Mortsauf \|Marcel Cravenne \|Delphine Seyrig, Richard Leduc, Alexandra Stewart \|novel: Honoré de Balzac
rowspan=2\|1971 \|Quentin Durward \|Crèvecoeur \|Gilles Grangier \|Amadeus August, Marie-France Boyer \|novel: Sir Walter Scott
L'homme qui rit \|Lord David \|Jean Kerchbron \| \|novel: Victor Hugo
rowspan=2\|1972 \|Les six hommes en question \|Major Lytton \|Abder Isker \| \|play: Frédéric Dard and Robert Hossein
Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings) \|Philippe le Bel \|Claude Barma \| \|
1974 \|Paul et Virginie \|The governor \|Pierre Gaspard-Huit \|Véronique Jannot \|novel: Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1976 \|The Gallant Lords of Bois-Doré \|Sylvain de Bois Doré \|Bernard Borderie \|Yolande Folliot, Michel Albertini, Philippe Lemaire, François Maistre, Jean-François Poron \|novel: George Sand
1977 \|Vaincre à Olympie \|Milo of Croton \|Michel Subiela \|Jean Marais \|
rowspan=2\|1978 \|{{ill\|Claudine (miniseries)\|fr\|3=Claudine (téléfilms, 1978)\|lt=Claudine}} \|Renaud \|Edouard Molinaro \|Marie-Hélène Breillat, Jean Desailly \|novel: Colette and Willy, adaptation : Danièle Thompson
Gaston Phébus \|Corbeyran \|Bernard Borderie \|Jean-Claude Drouot, France Dougnac, Nicole Garcia \|novel: Gaston et Myriam de Béarn
1979 \|The Island of Thirty Coffins \|Antoine d'Hergemont \|Marcel Cravenne \|Claude Jade \|novel : Maurice Leblanc
rowspan=2\|1981 \|Cinq-Mars \|Richelieu \|Jean-Claude Brialy \|Pierre Vaneck, Paul Blain, Madeleine Robinson, Jacques Duby \|writers: Jean-Claude Brialy and Didier Decoin
Maigret se trompe \|Professor Gouin \|Stéphane Bertin \|Jean Richard, Macha Méril \|novel: Georges Simenon
rowspan=2\|1985 \|Meurtres pour mémoire \|Pasquier \|Laurent Heynemann \|Christine Boisson, Christophe Malavoy \|novel: Didier Daeninckx
Châteauvallon \|Gilbert Bossis \| \|Chantal Nobel, Luc Merenda, Raymond Pellegrin \|
1986 \|Le coeur cambriolé \|Professor Thurel \|Michel Subiela \| \|short story: Gaston Leroux
1989 \|Les grandes familles \|Urbain de la Monnerie \|Edouard Molinaro \|Michel Piccoli, Pierre Arditi, Roger Hanin, Evelyne Bouix, Jean Desailly, Bulle Ogier \|novel and screenplay: Maurice Druon (final appearance)

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Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable" | Cast

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1969

|Tout pour le mieux

|Salvo Manfroni

|Jeannette Hubert

|Jean Desailly, Giani Esposito, Denise Grey, Eléonore Hirt