
Jean Martin
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday6 March 1922
Died2 February 2009 (age 86)
Place of birthParis, France
Known credits58
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…

Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self

Lucie Aubrac
1997 · Paul Lardanchet
Les Jupons de la révolution
1989 · Marquis de persan

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984 · Sculpteur

Le fou du désert
1983 · Saint-Quentin

La Puce et le privé
1981 · Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter

Inspector Blunder
1980 · Examination policeman (uncredited)

The King and the Mockingbird
1980 · L’oiseau (voice)

La Femme flic
1980 · Le colonel Morange

The Associate
1979 · M. Bastias

L'Homme en colère
1979 · Bully

Dossier 51
1978 · Vénus

The Cat
1977 · Legrand
Rendez-vous en noir
1977 · Le commissaire

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977 · Surgeon

The Carpathian Castle
1976 · Orfanik, the Inventor

A Woman at Her Window
1976 · Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)

Le Gentleman des Antipodes
1976 · Sainte-Rose

The Wing or the Thigh?
1976 · Le médecin

Police Commissioner Moulin
1976 · Larsen

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975 · Colonel Pembroke

The Messiah
1975 · Pontius Pilate

The Wild Goose Chase
1975 · Le directeur de la banque

Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
1975 · Jean Croix

The Night Caller
1975 · Divisional commissioner Sabin

An Invitation to the Hunt
1974 · Marquis of La Rocherie

The Time of the Beginning
1974 · Direttore clinica / Sottocapo

I'm Losing My Temper
1974 · Headmaster

Cry of the Heart
1974 · M. Bunkermann

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974 · The Priest

My Name Is Nobody
1973 · Sullivan

The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Victor Wolenski

The Inheritor
1973 · Mgr. Schneider

The Beguines
1972 · René

Mandrin
1972 · Robert de Cazes

La Nuit bulgare
1972

HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire
1971 · Bjorn

Troubleshooters
1971 · Homme de Varèse

Promise at Dawn
1970 · Igor Igorevitch

The Woman in White
1970 · Frédéric Fairlie

Safety Catch
1970 · Butler

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968 · A henchman of Charles (uncredited)

Baal's Companions
1968 · M. De Plassans

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · Un responsable d'édition

Manon 70
1968

The Invention of Morel
1967 · Stoewer

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967 · Gaston

The Nun
1967 · Monsieur Hébert
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