Jean Martin

Jean Martin

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.

  • Title: Jean Martin
  • Popularity: 3.078
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-03-06
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
  • Homepage: https://www.spla.pro/fr/fiche.personnes.spla.56361.html
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Jean Martin Movies

  • 1975
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    A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

    A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

    6.32 1975 HD

    Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is...

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  • 1973
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    The Day of the Jackal

    The Day of the Jackal

    7.5 1973 HD

    An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a...

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  • 1976
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    A Woman at Her Window

    A Woman at Her Window

    5.8 1976 HD

    Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.

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  • 1980
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    The King and the Mockingbird

    The King and the Mockingbird

    7.751 1980 HD

    A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a...

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  • 1975
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    The Messiah

    The Messiah

    6.375 1975 HD

    Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly...

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  • 1973
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    My Name Is Nobody

    My Name Is Nobody

    7.258 1973 HD

    Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who...

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  • 1975
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    The Night Caller

    The Night Caller

    7.2 1975 HD

    A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to...

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  • 1976
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    Le Gentleman des Antipodes

    Le Gentleman des Antipodes

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Wild Goose Chase

    The Wild Goose Chase

    6 1975 HD

    The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is...

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

    Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his...

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  • 1978
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    Dossier 51

    Dossier 51

    6.5 1978 HD

    A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

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  • 1997
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    Lucie Aubrac

    Lucie Aubrac

    6.371 1997 HD

    A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of...

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  • 1974
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    I'm Losing My Temper

    I'm Losing My Temper

    6.041 1974 HD

    Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British...

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  • 1962
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    Gustave Moreau

    Gustave Moreau

    1 1962 HD

    A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to...

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  • 1944
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    Cecile Is Dead

    Cecile Is Dead

    6 1944 HD

    Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she...

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  • 1973
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    The Inheritor

    The Inheritor

    6.3 1973 HD

    After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his...

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  • 1971
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    HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire

    HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire

    1 1971 HD

    Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and...

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

    Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

    7.2 2004 HD

    To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...

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  • 1962
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    Les Culottes rouges

    Les Culottes rouges

    6.5 1962 HD

    Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him...

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  • 1981
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    La Puce et le privé

    La Puce et le privé

    4 1981 HD

    Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val,...

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  • 1968
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    Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

    Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese

    5.99 1968 HD

    Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.

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  • 1976
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    The Wing or the Thigh?

    The Wing or the Thigh?

    7.236 1976 HD

    Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save...

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  • 1980
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    Inspector Blunder

    Inspector Blunder

    6.3 1980 HD

    A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed...

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  • 1971
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    Troubleshooters

    Troubleshooters

    6.3 1971 HD

    The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has...

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  • 1963
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    Your Turn, Darling

    Your Turn, Darling

    4.4 1963 HD

    In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.

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  • 1972
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    The Beguines

    The Beguines

    5.563 1972 HD

    Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and...

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  • 1972
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    La nuit bulgare

    La nuit bulgare

    6 1972 HD

    A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office....

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  • 1970
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    Safety Catch

    Safety Catch

    5.5 1970 HD

    A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead...

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  • 1975
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    Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead

    Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead

    1 1975 HD

    Thanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his...

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  • 1980
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    La Femme flic

    La Femme flic

    6.1 1980 HD

    Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute...

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  • 1970
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    Promise at Dawn

    Promise at Dawn

    5.3 1970 HD

    A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but...

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  • 1966
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    Soldier Martin

    Soldier Martin

    7 1966 HD

    A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

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  • 1976
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    The Carpathian Castle

    The Carpathian Castle

    6 1976 HD

    In 1898, strange things happen in a castle not far from the small village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Twenty years earlier,...

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  • 1979
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    The Associate

    The Associate

    6.4 1979 HD

    An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his...

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  • 1974
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    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    Successive Slidings of Pleasure

    6.2 1974 HD

    A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead,...

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  • 1968
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    Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

    Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

    6.5 1968 HD

    Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction...

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  • 1970
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    The Companions of Baal

    The Companions of Baal

    7 1970 HD

    Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of...

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  • 1974
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    The Time of the Beginning

    The Time of the Beginning

    3.5 1974 HD

    A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

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  • 1967
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    Les filous

    Les filous

    7 1967 HD

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  • 1952
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    Forgotten Stones

    Forgotten Stones

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Nun

    The Nun

    7.2 1966 HD

    In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways,...

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  • 1977
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    The Cat

    The Cat

    6.3 1977 HD

    Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before...

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  • 1977
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    Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

    Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

    6.964 1977 HD

    Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to...

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  • 1974
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    An Invitation to the Hunt

    An Invitation to the Hunt

    1 1974 HD

    Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate...

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  • 1967
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    The Invention of Morel

    The Invention of Morel

    7.4 1967 HD

    Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a...

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  • 1974
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    Cry of the Heart

    Cry of the Heart

    1 1974 HD

    Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy...

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  • 1984
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    The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

    The Crime of Ovide Plouffe

    6.3 1984 HD

    Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman...

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  • 1960
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    Fortunate

    Fortunate

    7.6 1960 HD

    During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her...

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  • 1967
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    Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

    Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

    6.1 1967 HD

    Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s...

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  • 1989
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    Les Jupons de la révolution

    Les Jupons de la révolution

    1 1989 HD

    TV Show Details

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  • 1968
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    Baal's Companions

    Baal's Companions

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1976
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    Police Commissioner Moulin

    Police Commissioner Moulin

    5.8 1976 HD

    The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

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  • 1977
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    Rendez-vous en noir

    Rendez-vous en noir

    9 1977 HD

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