Final Tribute: Funeral of French Crooner Guy Marchand Draws Hundreds to Mollégès

2023-12-27 12:29:42

A ceremony in honor of the actor and singer, who died on December 15 at the age of 86, was held this Wednesday morning at the Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church in Mollégès.

French cinema says goodbye to one of its “crooners”. Several hundred people paid a final tribute on Wednesday to the actor and singer Guy Marchand, in Mollégès, a picturesque village in the Alpilles in Bouches-du-Rhône, where he lived in recent years.

After a religious ceremony in the Saint-Pierre-es-Liens church in Mollégès, long applause punctuated the placement in the funeral vehicle of the coffin of former detective Nestor Burma, who died in Cavaillon on December 15 at the age of 86.

The coffin of actor and singer Guy Marchand, during his funeral, December 27, 2023 in Molleges. – Christophe Simon – AFP

A photo of the artist playing the clarinet, one of his favorite instruments, accompanied by one of his hats, was placed on the coffin.

“What I liked regarding him? Everything… the physique, the voice. He knew how to do everything. He was such a brilliant man, a good crooner, a good artist,” Suzette Ricciotti, an admirer of 76 years old.

Others regretted the absence of personalities during the funeral, like Mireille and Alain Bouterin, admirers of the singer: “We are very sad to see that no one from show biz accompanied this great gentleman, who was still a great actor and a great singer, a great musician, a very beautiful person.”

“I’m the one who left with him.”

Several musician friends of the author of Destinée, La passionata and Moi je suis Tango were present to make this gathering a “joyful and festive” moment, as requested by his children, Ludivine and Jules Marchand.

“He’s a man with a heart like that. And today, it was me who left with him. He’s a man who helped everyone,” “Mickey” also said, full of emotion. his bodyguard for 45 years.

In addition to his career as a singer, Guy Marchand has several nominations for the César for Best Supporting Role. He obtained this reward once, in 1982, when he played one of the police officers in Claude Miller’s “Garde à vue”, where Lino Ventura played the main role.

He had played in numerous feature films, notably comedies, such as Les Sous-doués en vacances and Ripoux contre ripoux by Claude Zidi, P’tit Con by Gérard Lauzier, Ma femme… s’appelle Maurice by Jean-Marie Poiré and appeared in the series Dix Pour Cent and La Minute Vieille.

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