- Has directed one Oscar nominated performance: Robert Loggia in Jagged Edge (1985).
- Education: Universite d'Aix-Marseille, France; King's College, Cambridge (modern languages)
- He was a fan of Liverpool Football Club.
- He was the only non-American to direct a Star Wars film until Gareth Edwards directed Rogue One (2016).
- Father of James Marquand.
- Was a student of novelist E.M. Forster whilst at Kings College, Cambridge.
- Started his career as a newscaster in Hong Kong. Upon his return to Britain, he directed television documentaries for the BBC. He won an Emmy for his outstanding work on the miniseries The Search for the Nile (1971), which he filmed in an almost semi-documentary style.
- He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
- Son of Hilary Marquand. Brother of David Marquand.
- Son-in-law (1960-1970) of Frederick Elwyn Jones and Pearl Binder. Brother-in-law (1960-1970) of Lou Taylor and 'Dan Jones'.
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