

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
as Victor Wolenski

The Associate
as M. Bastias

L'Homme en colère
as Bully

Dossier 51
as Vénus

The Cat
as Legrand

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
as Surgeon

The Carpathian Castle
as Orfanik, the Inventor

A Woman at Her Window
as Drieu La Rochelle (uncredited)

Le Gentleman des Antipodes
as Sainte-Rose

The Wing or the Thigh?
as Le médecin

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
as Colonel Pembroke

The Messiah
as Pontius Pilate

The Wild Goose Chase
as Le directeur de la banque

Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
as Jean Croix

The Night Caller
as Divisional commissioner Sabin

An Invitation to the Hunt
as Marquis of La Rocherie

The Time of the Beginning
as Direttore clinica / Sottocapo

I'm Losing My Temper
as Headmaster

Cry of the Heart
as M. Bunkermann

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The Priest

My Name Is Nobody
as Sullivan

The Day of the Jackal
as Victor Wolenski

The Inheritor
as Mgr. Schneider

The Beguines
as René

La Nuit bulgare

HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire
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
as A henchman of Charles (uncredited)

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
as Un responsable d'édition

Manon 70

The Invention of Morel
as Stoewer

The Nun
as Monsieur Hébert
Les filous

Soldier Martin
as Monnier

The Battle of Algiers
as Colonel Philippe Mathieu

Your Turn, Darling

Les Culottes rouges
as Un homme de la troupe (uncredited)

Gustave Moreau
as Narrator

Paris Belongs to Us

Fortunate
as faux croque-mort