After decades in the business, Christian Marin is the kind of actor who arrived well before the current crop and stayed. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know. Roughly 49 titles carry his name. Ask a viewer to place Christian Marin and the answer usually comes back 'Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez'. 'The Gendarme Gets Married' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography.
Christian Marin
Actor
83 years (Feb 8, 1929 – Sep 5, 2012)Lyon, FranceLyon, Rhône, France
After decades in the business, Christian Marin is the kind of actor who arrived well before the current crop and stayed. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know. Roughly 49 titles carry his name. Ask a viewer to place Christian Marin and the answer usually comes back 'Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez'. 'The Gendarme Gets Married' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography.
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.