Henri Marteau
Acting
Born January 16, 1933, Reims, France
Post‑war film enthusiasts will remember the face of Henri Marteau, a fairly prolific supporting actor whose name has since faded somewhat from memory. His early appearances, barely above that of an extra, explain why he is missing from certain credits. He appears for only a few seconds in A Witness in the City by Édouard Molinaro, and in The Big Restaurant with Louis de Funès, where he just as briefly plays the second inspector. In Le Mors aux dents, he plays a minister, then a stranded motorist in Jean L’Hôte’s La Communale, and a trafficker in Une Sale Affaire. His most notable performance is as a French colonist and the father of Catherine Deneuve in Indochine. He was more easily spotted on television, in Les Coquelicots sont revenus and Poil de carotte by Richard Bohringer. He also appeared in numerous episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes with Raymond Souplex, as well as in the later season with Jacques Debary, and in Les Filles du maître de chai. He died in Paris at Hôpital Saint‑Louis at the age of seventy‑two.
Filmography
- 2003Carrot Top — Le grand-père
- 1999Les coquelicots sont revenus — Paul
- Joséphine, Guardian Angel — Paul
- 1997La fille des nuages — Germain
- Les Filles du maître de chai — Léon
- 1994Les brouches — Fernand
- 1994The Eagle and the Horse
- 1992Indochine — Emile Devries
- 1987Killing Time — Igor Malevitch
- 1986Fred connexion — Poutin
- 1983Richelieu ou La journée des dupes — Maréchal de Bassompierre
- Docteur Teyran — L'inspecteur Maneaud
- 1980Operation Leopard — Chamfort
- 1979La boucle d'oreille — Le commissaire
- 1979The Bit Between the Teeth — Le ministre
- 1977Replay
- 1977The Question — Colonel Treguier
- 1975Doctor Justice
- 1975Saint-Just and the Force of Things — Lazare Carnot
- Ardéchois, cœur fidèle — Lyonnais
- 1974One Morning in June 1940 — Lepage
- 1972Les Déracinés — Captain Sainbenin
- 1972Un Flic — Police Officer Instructor of Shooting
- 1970The Confession — Policeman
- Le Petit Monde de Marie-Plaisance — Georges Cournebosc
- 1969The Unfaithful Wife — Paul
- 1966The Restaurant — Le second inspecteur adjoint
- 1964The Black Indies — deuxième policier
- 1959Without Trumpet or Drum
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes — Louis Prinquiau, Étienne, Philippe Vignaud, Grégoire, Antoine