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.

Фільмографія

• 1997Lucie Aubrac — Paul Lardanchet
• Les Jupons de la révolution — Marquis de persan
• 1984The Crime of Ovide Plouffe — Sculpteur
• Le fou du désert — Saint-Quentin
• 1981La Puce et le privé — Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter
• 1980Inspector Blunder — Examination policeman (uncredited)
• 1980La Femme flic — Le colonel Morange
• 1980The King and the Mockingbird — L’oiseau (voice)
• 1979L'Homme en colère — Bully
• 1979The Associate — M. Bastias
• 1978Dossier 51 — Vénus
• 1977Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff — Surgeon
• Rendez-vous en noir — Le commissaire
• 1977The Cat — Legrand
• 1976A Woman at Her Window — Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)
• 1976Le Gentleman des Antipodes — Sainte-Rose
• Police Commissioner Moulin — Larsen
• 1976The Carpathian Castle — Orfanik, the Inventor
• 1976Крильце чи ніжка — Le médecin
• 1975A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot — Colonel Pembroke
• 1975Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead — Jean Croix
• 1975The Messiah — Pontius Pilate
• 1975The Night Caller — Divisional commissioner Sabin
• 1975The Wild Goose Chase — Le directeur de la banque
• 1974An Invitation to the Hunt — Marquis of La Rocherie
• 1974Cry of the Heart — M. Bunkermann
• 1974I'm Losing My Temper — Headmaster
• 1974Successive Slidings of Pleasure — The Priest
• 1974The Time of the Beginning — Direttore clinica / Sottocapo
• 1973The Inheritor — Mgr. Schneider
• 1973День Шакала — Victor Wolenski
• 1973Мене звуть Ніхто — Sullivan
• 1972La Nuit bulgare
• Mandrin — Robert de Cazes
• 1972The Beguines — René
• 1971HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire — Bjorn
• 1971Troubleshooters — Homme de Varèse
• 1970Promise at Dawn — Igor Igorevitch
• 1970Safety Catch — Butler
• The Woman in White — Frédéric Fairlie
• Baal's Companions — M. De Plassans
• 1968Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese — A henchman of Charles (uncredited)
• 1968Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime — Un responsable d'édition
• 1968Manon 70
• Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre — Gaston
• 1967Les filous
• 1967The Invention of Morel — Stoewer
• 1967The Nun — Monsieur Hébert
• 1966Soldier Martin — Monnier
• 1966Битва за Алжир — Colonel Philippe Mathieu
• 1963Your Turn, Darling
• 1962Gustave Moreau — Narrator
• 1962Les Culottes rouges — Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)
• 1961Paris Belongs to Us
• 1960Fortunate — faux croque-mort
• 1952Forgotten Stones
• 1944Cecile Is Dead — Le garçon d'étage (uncredited)

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (1)

• 2004Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers — Self