Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French

film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. Born in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, 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.

Partial filmography

* '' Les Tortillards'' (1960) * '' Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville'' (1961) * '' La Belle Américaine'' (1961) * '' All the Gold in the World'' (1961) * '' L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret'' (1963) * '' Pouic-Pouic'' (1963) * '' Bebert and the Train'' (1963) * ''

Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez ''The Troops of St. Tropez'' (; literally ''The Policeman from Saint-Tropez'') is a 1964 French comedy film set in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Starring Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot of the ''gendarmerie'', the fi ...

'' (1964) * '' Le gendarme à New York'' (1965) * '' The Sleeping Car Murders'' (1965) * '' Le gendarme se marie'' (1967) * '' The Most Beautiful Month'' (1968) * '' Le gendarme en balade'' (1970) * '' La dernière bourrée à Paris'' (1973) * '' Toutes griffes dehors'' (1982) * '' Dead Man Talking'' (2012)

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* 1929 births 2012 deaths French male film actors French male television actors Male actors from Lyon Place of death missing {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub