Marc Michel Marrier de Lagatinerie (3 January 1949 – 15 August 1983), known professionally as Marc Porel, was a Swiss-born French film actor.
He appeared in 40 films between 1967 and 1983.
Life
Marc Michel Marrier de Lagatinerie was born in
Lausanne, Switzerland
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on 3 January 1949, the son of
Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012), an actress and granddaughter of
Gabrielle Réjane
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The daughter of a former actor, Réjane studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made her stag ...
, and
Gérard Landry, an actor
. He had three half siblings, one from an affair his mother had with the singer
Henri Salvador
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Biography
Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native ...
: his brother
Jean-Marie Périer
Jean-Marie Périer (born 1 February 1940) is a French photographer and film director.
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, and two from her marriage to actor
François Périer
François Périer (born François Pillu; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996, with notable excursion into ...
: his brother Jean-Pierre and sister Anne-Marie.
He was married twice, first to French model Bénédicte Lacoste, with whom he had a daughter. They divorced, and he remarried to Italian actress
Barbara Magnolfi and had a daughter with her.
Porel died in
Casablanca on 15 August 1983 of
Meningitis
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. He is buried at