Jean Martin

Actor Mar 6 (died age 86) Paris, France 1944–2004 (60 year career)

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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 p…

Known For

Film

The Battle of Algiers

Colonel Philippe Mathieu

Film

My Name Is Nobody

Sullivan

Film

The Wing or the Thigh?

Le médecin

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Victor Wolenski

Film

The King and the Mockingbird

L’oiseau (voice)

Film

The Night Caller

Divisional commissioner Sabin

Film

Inspector Blunder

Examination policeman (uncredited)

Film

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

Colonel Pembroke

Filmography

Acting (55)

Movies (49)

Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

as Self

Lucie Aubrac

as Paul Lardanchet

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

1984

as Sculpteur

6.3

La Puce et le privé

1981

as Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter

4.0

Inspector Blunder

1980

as Examination policeman (uncredited)

6.3

La Femme flic

1980

as Le colonel Morange

5.8

The King and the Mockingbird

as L’oiseau (voice)

L'Homme en colère

as Bully

The Associate

as M. Bastias

Dossier 51

as Vénus

The Cat

as Legrand

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

1977

as Surgeon

6.9

Le Gentleman des Antipodes

1976

as Sainte-Rose

The Wing or the Thigh?

1976

as Le médecin

7.2

The Carpathian Castle

1976

as Orfanik, the Inventor

6.0

A Woman at Her Window

1976

as Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)

5.6

The Wild Goose Chase

1975

as Le directeur de la banque

6.1

The Night Caller

1975

as Divisional commissioner Sabin

7.2

Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead

1975

as Jean Croix

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

as Colonel Pembroke

The Messiah

as Pontius Pilate

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

as The Priest

I'm Losing My Temper

as Headmaster

Cry of the Heart

as M. Bunkermann

The Time of the Beginning

1974

as Direttore clinica / Sottocapo

2.7

An Invitation to the Hunt

1974

as Marquis of La Rocherie

The Day of the Jackal

as Victor Wolenski

My Name Is Nobody

as Sullivan

The Inheritor

as Mgr. Schneider

The Beguines

as René

La nuit bulgare

HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire

1971

as Bjorn

Troubleshooters

as Homme de Varèse

Promise at Dawn

as Igor Igorevitch

Safety Catch

as Butler

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

1968

as A henchman of Charles (uncredited)

5.8

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

1968

as Un responsable d'édition

The Nun

as Monsieur Hébert

Les filous

The Invention of Morel

1967

as Stoewer

7.3

The Battle of Algiers

1966

as Colonel Philippe Mathieu

Soldier Martin

as Monnier

Your Turn, Darling

Gustave Moreau

as Narrator

Les Culottes rouges

1962

as Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)

Paris Belongs to Us

Fortunate

as faux croque-mort

Forgotten Stones

Cecile Is Dead

as Le garçon d'étage (uncredited)

6.0

Television (6)

Les Jupons de la révolution

as Marquis de persan

Rendez-vous en noir

as Le commissaire

Police Commissioner Moulin

as Larsen

Mandrin

as Robert de Cazes

Baal's Companions

as M. De Plassans

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

as Gaston

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