Christian Marin
Birthday: Born in 1929-02-08 in Lyon, Rhône, France
Deathday: 2012-09-05
Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French film actor. Born in Lyon, he is best known for his role in Le gendarme series (as "Merlot"), although he did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the television serial Les Chevaliers du ciel, in which he portrayed the character Ernest Laverdure. Source: Article "Christian Marin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
TV Credits
La Chance aux chansons
Character: Self
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Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: André
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour....
Plaisir du théâtre
Character: M. Loiseau, le greffier du juge d'instruction
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Les Chevaliers du ciel
Character: Ernest Laverdure
The Aeronauts was a French children's TV series about two fighter jet pilots and their adventures. It was based on a comic book series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo. Made by French production company Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française between 1967 and 1970, its original French title was Les chevaliers du ciel. The three seasons were originally filmed in colors but the first season was broadcast on French TV from September 1967 in black and white, as French television was...
Les Jeux de 20 heures
Character: Self
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Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Estry
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series...
Movie Credits
The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: Le beau-frère de Georgette, mari soumis
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims....
The Gendarme Gets Married
Character: Albert Merlot
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love.......
Strogoff
Character: Blount
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia....
The Gendarme in New York
Character: Albert Merlot
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y....
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Character: Albert Merlot
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor....
The Dance
Character: le caméraman
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir....
The Gendarme Takes Off
Character: Albert Merlot
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down....
Squeak-squeak
Character: Charles
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand......
The Buddies
Character: Omer
Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire. Broudier begins: in the middle of the night, disguised as a minister, he wakes up a barracks in Ambert and sets in motion a thunderous maneuver. The next day, disguised as a Dominican, Bénin climbed to...
All the Gold in the World
Character: un technicien TV
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell......
La Mégère apprivoisée
Character: Gremio
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine....
Dead Man Talking
Character: L'aumônier
8pm in a rundown prison. A prisoner on death row will be executed. He has the right to make a final declaration. But the law doesn't stipulate how long he can talk. So, as long as he talks the execution is postponed…...
Le mari ne compte pas
Character: M. Loiseau, le greffier du juge d'instruction
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The Reluctant Spy
Character: Lecanut
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne....
Josefa's Loot
Character: Pierrot
Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two fri...
Funny Money
Character: Le touriste
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs....
Crime Does Not Pay
Character: Le Commissaire
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film....
Bebert and the Train
Character: Station employee
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him....
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
Character: Le facteur (porteur) de la gare de Lyon
Television adaptation of the comedy by Eugène Labiche and Edouard Martin, written in 1860. On the Buttes Chaumont plateau, transformed into the Gare de Lyon, Monsieur Perrichon, who has all the makings of an honest bourgeois, sets off on a pleasure trip with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He has no idea that his daughter's two official suitors will give this trip a fantastic turn....
Microbidon
Character: Maximilien
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Le commando des chauds lapins
Character: Firmin
During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers....
The Busybody
Character: Bank cashier
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants....
How to Succeed in Love
Character: Fernand (uncredited)
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's ...
A Blonde Like That
Character:
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named...
Tell Me Whom to Kill
Character: Ice cream seller
On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot....
The Abominable Man of Customs
Character: Désiré Piccolo
Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role....
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Character: (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
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Song of the World
Character: Tattooed one
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on th...
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Character:
Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the a...
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Character: Bartender
Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband....
La Grande Récré
Character: Le gardien de la paix
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The Blockhead Fair
Character: Levasseur
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year....
Small Local Trains
Character: Léon
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…...
Two Sunny Days
Character: Didier
Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other optio...
Le Gang des seniors
Character:
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Décibel
Character: Adolphe Masson Massonnet
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Jean de la lune
Character: Clotaire
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Le Coin tranquille
Character: Jean
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Sacré Noël
Character:
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Character: Joseph
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives....
The American Beauty
Character: Pierrot
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more....
Woodplum
Character: Gaspard
Children find a baby in the forest....
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
Character: William
In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates....
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Character: Rogue receiver
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée....
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
Character: hotelman
Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl named Miriam. Their romance blossoms, but their love affair is darkened by Turner's impending departure and the specter of racial prejudice....
Tous ceux qui tombent
Character: Christy
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani....
Ten Minutes from Naturists
Character: le voisin au balcon
Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They just did not know a small detail: Island Sunset is 100% nude! Meanwhile, the Levantains arrive in Brussels to promote a directive that could undress throughout Europe......
The Most Beautiful Month
Character: Le sergent
The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to learn that his daughter Rosine has had a child out of wedlock with the mayor's son, Bruno Besson....
Cherchez l'idole
Character: Marcel, tall police officer
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning......
The Grand Duke's New Clothes
Character: Le grand
Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke....
De fil en aiguille
Character: le second détective privé
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