Jean Martin

Acting · Born 1922-03-06 in Paris, France

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 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…

Filmography

• The Day of the Jackal as Victor Wolenski
• The King and the Mockingbird as L’oiseau (voice)
• My Name Is Nobody as Sullivan
• The Night Caller as Divisional commissioner Sabin
• The Battle of Algiers as Colonel Philippe Mathieu
• The Wing or the Thigh? as Le médecin
• A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot as Colonel Pembroke
• A Woman at Her Window as Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)
• The Messiah as Pontius Pilate
• The Wild Goose Chase as Le directeur de la banque

TV

• Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Gaston
• Les Jupons de la révolution as Marquis de persan
• Police Commissioner Moulin as Larsen
• Rendez-vous en noir as Le commissaire
• Mandrin as Robert de Cazes