Marchal, Olivier

(November 14, 1958, Tal-ence, Gironde, France - )

   The son of a pastry cook, he was educated by Jesuits. At age twenty-two, he joined a criminal squad as a police inspector. Parallel with his professional life, he attended acting courses at the Paris Conservatory and began appearing in movies. In the early 1990s, he abandoned police work to become an actor (more than forty films and TV movies from 1988 Ne réveillez pas un Flic qui dort, José Pinheiro, to 2008 Diamant 13, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Gilles Béhat). He co-wrote screenplays for TV (1993 Van Loc: un grand Flic de Marseille, episodes "La Grenade", "La Vengeance", Claude Barrois; Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episode "Syndrome de Menace", Yves Rénier; 1994 Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episode "Mort d'un Officier de Police", Jean-Louis Daniel; 1995 La Femme piègée, also actor, Frédéric Compain; François Kléber, episode "Le Pas en avant", 1996 Groupe Nuit, first episode, Patrick Jamain; François Kléber, episodes "Le Traquenard", "La Mémoire vive"; 1997 La Basse-Cour, TV series, also producer, Catherine Lehérissey; 1998 Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episodes "36 Quai des Ombres", also actor, Denis Amar; "Le Bleu", Denis Amar; "Silence Radio", Yves Rénier; 1999 Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episode "Serial Killer", Yves Rénier; 2000 Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episodes "Mortelle Séduction", Gilles Béhat; "Protection rapprochée", also actor, Gilles Béhat; 2001 Commissaire Moulin / Commissaire Moulin, Police judiciaire, episodes "Un Flic sous Influence", Gilles Béhat; "Au Nom de nos Enfants", Gilles Béhat; 2008 Flics, episodes "Le Jour des Morts—1ère Partie", Nicolas Cuche; "Engrenage", Nicolas Cuche). He co-created the TV series Central Nuit (2001: episodes "Nuit de Chien", Didier Delaître; "La Petite Fille dans le Placard", Didier Delaître; "Accident diplomatique", Didier Delaître; "Parole de Flic", Didier Delaître; 2003: episodes "La Loi des Affranchis", Didier Delaître; "Piège à Flics", Didier Delaître; 2004: episode "Le Bruit des Murmures", Pascale Dallet; 2006: episodes "Dérapage", Pascale Dallet; "La Loi de la Cité", Pascale Dallet; "Invités indésirables", Pascale Dallet; "Ménage à trois", Pascale Dallet; "Un Beau Flag", Pascale Dallet).

 Filmography

1999 ◘ Un Bon Flic (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

2002 ◘ Gangsters (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Belgium)

2004 ◘ 36 Quai des Orfèvres / UK and USA: Depart­ment 36 (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)

2008 ◘ MR 73 (also screenwriter, dialogist)