The legendary crooner and figure of French cinema has passed away, this Friday, December 15. In a press release, relayed by AFP, his two children indicated that the 86-year-old actor “passed away peacefully […] at Cavaillon hospital ». In October 2021, Guy Marchand revealed that he suffered from gallbladder problems and slight shortness of breath. After the announcement of his death, singers, actors, presenters and politicians paid tribute to the memory of the iconic interpreter of private detective Nestor Burma. Macha Méril, who plays his wife in his latest TV film The last partbroadcast in 2021 on TF1, spoke about the loss of her colleague and friend in a telephone interview given to Parisian.
The actress knows Guy Marchand well. Indeed, they had met for the first time in 1962 when he was a skydiving advisor, reported The Parisian. “ His passing saddens me a lot. », she told the media. Macha Méril recognizes that during their last filming in 2021, the actor was already “very tired”. “ We were worried because it’s tiring to make a film “, she confided to Le Parisien. “ We knew it would be his last film. There was something very touching “, she continued. The singer remained very elegant, but he was “ unfortunate to be so diminished “, explained Macha Méril. “ I think that when men see that they will no longer be the same, that theyThey will be nothing more than an old gentleman in an armchair, they don’t want to stay. They don’t want to leave another image “, declared the French actress. She explained that she had already experienced this situation with her husband Michel Legrand.
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His son saved his life
In February 2022, Guy Marchand was on the set of our Swiss colleagues from Léman bleu TV. He said that his son Jules had saved his life by providing support during a difficult time in his life. While he was suffering from a “ very serious » nosocomial infection, the actor declared: “ I almost died and he got me out of there. I don’t know how he did it. The infection almost took me away and he said: “It’s too early”, he didn’t let it happen. »
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