Jean Martin
Actor
Born March 6, 1922 in Paris, France
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.
Filmography
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Self
Lucie Aubrac
Paul Lardanchet
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Sculpteur
La Puce et le privé
Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter
Inspector Blunder
Examination policeman (uncredited)
The King and the Mockingbird
L’oiseau (voice)
La Femme flic
Le colonel Morange
The Associate
M. Bastias
L'Homme en colère
Bully
Dossier 51
Vénus
The Cat
Legrand
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Surgeon
The Carpathian Castle
Orfanik, the Inventor
A Woman at Her Window
Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)
Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Sainte-Rose
The Wing or the Thigh?
Le médecin
Police Commissioner Moulin
Larsen
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Colonel Pembroke
The Messiah
Pontius Pilate
The Wild Goose Chase
Le directeur de la banque
Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
Jean Croix
The Night Caller
Divisional commissioner Sabin
An Invitation to the Hunt
Marquis of La Rocherie
The Time of the Beginning
Direttore clinica / Sottocapo
I'm Losing My Temper
Headmaster
Cry of the Heart
M. Bunkermann
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Priest
My Name Is Nobody
Sullivan
The Day of the Jackal
Victor Wolenski
The Inheritor
Mgr. Schneider
The Beguines
René
Mandrin
Robert de Cazes
La Nuit bulgare
HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire
Bjorn
Troubleshooters
Homme de Varèse
Promise at Dawn
Igor Igorevitch
Safety Catch
Butler
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
A henchman of Charles (uncredited)
Baal's Companions
M. De Plassans
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Un responsable d'édition
Manon 70
The Invention of Morel
Stoewer
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Gaston
The Nun
Monsieur Hébert
Soldier Martin
Monnier
The Battle of Algiers
Colonel Philippe Mathieu
Your Turn, Darling
Les Culottes rouges
Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)
Gustave Moreau
Narrator
Paris Belongs to Us
Fortunate
faux croque-mort
Forgotten Stones
Cecile Is Dead
Le garçon d'étage (uncredited)