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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.
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| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 1978 | 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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) |