Jean Martin
Acting
Born March 6, 1922 · 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…
Known For · 40 titles
Police Commissioner Moulin
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
The Day of the Jackal
My Name Is Nobody
Les Jupons de la révolution
The Battle of Algiers
The Beguines
Manon 70
The Night Caller
Baal's Companions
The Wing or the Thigh?
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Rendez-vous en noir
Mandrin
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Fortunate
Inspector Blunder
Les filous
I'm Losing My Temper
The Nun
The King and the Mockingbird
Cecile Is Dead
The Wild Goose Chase
L'Homme en colère
Forgotten Stones
Lucie Aubrac
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Carpathian Castle
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
La Nuit bulgare
A Woman at Her Window
Cry of the Heart
Paris Belongs to Us
Dossier 51
The Cat
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Gustave Moreau
La Femme flic
The Inheritor
Troubleshooters