Jean Martin

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-03-06 (87 years old)

Deathday

2009-02-02

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Martin

Biography

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...

Acting

1973

The Day of the Jackal

as Victor Wolenski

1976

A Woman at Her Window

as Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)

1980

The King and the Mockingbird

as L’oiseau (voice)

1975

The Messiah

as Pontius Pilate

1973

1975

The Night Caller

as Divisional commissioner Sabin

1976

1975

The Wild Goose Chase

as Le directeur de la banque

1966

The Battle of Algiers

as Colonel Philippe Mathieu

1978

Dossier 51

as Vénus

1997

Lucie Aubrac

as Paul Lardanchet

1974

1962

Gustave Moreau

as Narrator

1944

Cecile Is Dead

as Le garçon d'étage (uncredited)

1973

The Inheritor

as Mgr. Schneider

1962

Les Culottes rouges

as Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)

1981

La Puce et le privé

as Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter

1968

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

as A henchman of Charles (uncredited)

1976

The Wing or the Thigh?

as Duchemin's Doctor at Clinic

1980

Inspector Blunder

as Examination policeman (uncredited)

1971

Troubleshooters

as Homme de Varèse

1972

The Beguines

as René

1980

La Femme flic

as Le colonel Morange

1970

Promise at Dawn

as Igor Igorevitch

1966

Soldier Martin

as Monnier

1976

The Carpathian Castle

as Orfanik, the Inventor

1979

The Associate

as M. Bastias

1968

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

as Un responsable d'édition

1970

1974

The Time of the Beginning

as Direttore clinica / Sottocapo

1967

The Nun

as Monsieur Hébert

1977

The Cat

as Legrand

1974

An Invitation to the Hunt

as Marquis of La Rocherie

1974

Cry of the Heart

as M. Bunkermann

1960

Fortunate

as faux croque-mort

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