Jean Martin (6 March 1922 - 2 February 2009) was a French actor. Coming from a Berry family, he spent part of his childhood in Biarritz, where his father worked for a furrier. During the Second World War, he hid to escape the Forced Labor Service. Staying in Paris, he appeared in two films by Maurice Tourneur: "The Devil's Hand" (1942) then "Cécile Est Mort" (1943). At the twilight of the forties, he started doing theater.
Jean Martin (6 March 1922 - 2 February 2009) was a French actor. Coming from a Berry family, he spent part of his childhood in Biarritz, where his father worked for a furrier. During the Second World War, he hid to escape the Forced Labor Service. Staying in Paris, he appeared in two films by Maurice Tourneur: "The Devil's Hand" (1942) then "Cécile Est Mort" (1943). At the twilight of the forties, he started doing theater.
In 1953, Jean Martin gained notoriety by playing the new play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot", under the direction of Roger Blin, becoming the first to take on the role of Lucky. The same Roger Blin produced “End of the Game” (1957), by the same Beckett, a few years later, and entrusted the same Jean Martin with the role of Clov. In 1960, Jean Martin staged his first play, “Letter Dead”, by Robert Pinget. In 1962, he again staged a play, “The Representatives”, by Aglaé and Mona Mitropoulos, adapted by Michel Arnaud. Alongside this theatrical career which would prove to be rich, Jean Martin returned to cinema: “Notre-Dame de Paris” (1956), by Jean Delannoy, “Paris belongs to us” (1958), by Jacques Rivette, “Ballade for a thug " (1962), by Jean-Claude Bonnardot, "La foire aux dunces" (1963), by Louis Daquin and "À toi de fait mignon" (1963), by Bernard Borderie.
In 1960, he was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 121 entitled “Declaration on the right to insubordination in the Algerian war”. In 1965, a role marked his career, that of Colonel Mathieu, in a film retracing the struggle in 1957 for control of the Casbah district of Algiers between FLN militants and French soldiers: "The Battle of Algiers" . Three years after the end of the Algerian War, the subject is still sensitive on each side of the Mediterranean; the film was banned in France upon its release, then censored until 2004. Jean Martin, very convincing in this role of division commander (historically, the commander is General Massu, but the character is inspired by Colonel Bigeard), is the only professional actor in the film. His large stature, his strong personality and his imperious face predispose him to notable roles generally showing authority: chief doctor, police commissioner, high-ranking military officer, ecclesiastical dignitary...; one of the most impressive will undoubtedly be that of a doctor vehemently expelling from his hospital a judge Fayard, Patrick Dewaere, a bit of a cavalier in "Le Juge Fayard Dit Le Shérif" (1976). Claude Zidi mocks these roles in his comedies: principal in “La moutarde monte au nose” (1974), bank director in “La Course À L'Échalote” (1975), chief doctor in “L'aile ou la thigh” (1976), principal inspector in “Bête mais disciplined” (1979) and examiner in “Inspecteur la Bavure” (1980). Alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo, he is… cardinal in “L’Hériter” (1972) and… divisional commissioner in “Peur Sur La ville” (1975)! But also alongside Terence Hill in “My Name is Nobody” (1973) in the role of Sullivan, or “One Genius, Two Associates, One Bell (1975).
After devoting a large part of his career to the theater, appearing in around fifty films, Jean Martin died on February 2, 2009, in Paris.
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Filmography (Movies)
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2004
Lucie Aubrac
Character:Paul Lardanchet
Release Date:26/02/1997
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Character:Sculpteur
Release Date:29/08/1984
La Puce et le privé
Character:Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter
Release Date:11/03/1981
Inspector Blunder
Character:Examination policeman (uncredited)
Release Date:03/12/1980
The King and the Mockingbird
Character:L’oiseau (voice)
Release Date:19/03/1980
La Femme flic
Character:Le colonel Morange
Release Date:08/01/1980
The Associate
Character:M. Bastias
Release Date:22/08/1979
L'Homme en colère
Character:Bully
Release Date:14/03/1979
Dossier 51
Character:Vénus
Release Date:30/08/1978
The Cat
Character:Legrand
Release Date:16/12/1977
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character:Surgeon
Release Date:12/01/1977
The Carpathian Castle
Character:Orfanik, the Inventor
Release Date:19/12/1976
A Woman at Her Window
Character:Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)
Release Date:10/11/1976
Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character:Sainte-Rose
Release Date:04/11/1976
The Wing or the Thigh?
Character:Le médecin
Release Date:27/10/1976
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character:Colonel Pembroke
Release Date:16/12/1975
The Messiah
Character:Pontius Pilate
Release Date:24/10/1975
The Wild Goose Chase
Character:Le directeur de la banque
Release Date:08/10/1975
Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
Character:Jean Croix
Release Date:13/08/1975
The Night Caller
Character:Divisional commissioner Sabin
Release Date:09/04/1975
An Invitation to the Hunt
Character:Marquis of La Rocherie
Release Date:01/11/1974
The Time of the Beginning
Character:Direttore clinica / Sottocapo
Release Date:15/10/1974
I'm Losing My Temper
Character:Headmaster
Release Date:09/10/1974
Cry of the Heart
Character:M. Bunkermann
Release Date:11/09/1974
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Character:The Priest
Release Date:07/03/1974
My Name Is Nobody
Character:Sullivan
Release Date:13/12/1973
The Day of the Jackal
Character:Victor Wolenski
Release Date:16/05/1973
The Inheritor
Character:Mgr. Schneider
Release Date:22/03/1973
The Beguines
Character:René
Release Date:19/09/1972
La nuit bulgare
Character:
Release Date:20/04/1972
HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire
Character:Bjorn
Release Date:27/07/1971
Troubleshooters
Character:Homme de Varèse
Release Date:07/04/1971
Promise at Dawn
Character:Igor Igorevitch
Release Date:25/11/1970
Safety Catch
Character:Butler
Release Date:14/01/1970
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Character:A henchman of Charles (uncredited)
Release Date:06/09/1968
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Character:Un responsable d'édition
Release Date:24/04/1968
The Invention of Morel
Character:Stoewer
Release Date:08/12/1967
The Nun
Character:Monsieur Hébert
Release Date:26/07/1967
Les filous
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1967
Soldier Martin
Character:Monnier
Release Date:28/09/1966
The Battle of Algiers
Character:Colonel Philippe Mathieu
Release Date:08/09/1966
Your Turn, Darling
Character:
Release Date:18/02/1963
Les Culottes rouges
Character:Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)
Release Date:19/12/1962
Gustave Moreau
Character:Narrator
Release Date:02/01/1962
Paris Belongs to Us
Character:
Release Date:13/12/1961
Fortunate
Character:faux croque-mort
Release Date:16/11/1960
Forgotten Stones
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1952
Cecile Is Dead
Character:Le garçon d'étage (uncredited)
Release Date:08/03/1944
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