Henri Marteau
Birthday: 1933-01-16
Deathday: 2005-01-21
Birthplace: Reims, France
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
Post‑war film enthusiasts will remember the face of Henri Marteau, a fairly prolific supporting actor whose name has since faded somewhat from memory. His early appearances, barely above that of an extra, explain why he is missing from certain credits. He appears for only a few seconds in A Witness in the City by Édouard Molinaro, and in The Big Restaurant with Louis de Funès, where he just as briefly plays the second inspector. In Le Mors aux dents, he plays a minister, then a stranded motorist in Jean L’Hôte’s La Communale, and a trafficker in Une Sale Affaire. His most notable performance is as a French colonist and the father of Catherine Deneuve in Indochine.
He was more easily spotted on television, in Les Coquelicots sont revenus and Poil de carotte by Richard Bohringer. He also appeared in numerous episodes of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes with Raymond Souplex, as well as in the later season with Jacques Debary, and in Les Filles du maître de chai.
He died in Paris at Hôpital Saint‑Louis at the age of seventy‑two.
Credits
| Year | Title | Character | |
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2003-04-14 | Carrot Top | Le grand-père |
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1999-03-20 | Les coquelicots sont revenus | Paul |
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1997-01-06 | La fille des nuages | Germain |
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1994-11-14 | The Eagle and the Horse | |
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1994-03-26 | Les brouches | Fernand |
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1992-04-15 | Indochine | Emile Devries |
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1987-03-18 | Killing Time | Igor Malevitch |
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1986-10-22 | Fred connexion | Poutin |
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1983-01-05 | Richelieu ou La journée des dupes | Maréchal de Bassompierre |
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1980-01-09 | Operation Leopard | Chamfort |
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1979-09-01 | The Bit Between the Teeth | Le ministre |
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1979-04-21 | La boucle d'oreille | Le commissaire |
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1977-08-10 | Replay | |
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1977-05-04 | The Question | Colonel Treguier |
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1975-12-17 | Doctor Justice | |
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1975-01-01 | Saint-Just and the Force of Things | Lazare Carnot |
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1974-06-29 | One Morning in June 1940 | Lepage |
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1972-10-01 | A Cop | Police Officer Instructor of Shooting |
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1972-08-16 | Les Déracinés | Captain Sainbenin |
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1970-04-29 | The Confession | Policeman |
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1969-01-22 | The Unfaithful Wife | Paul |
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1966-09-09 | The Restaurant | Le second inspecteur adjoint |
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1964-12-25 | The Black Indies | deuxième policier |
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1959-12-22 | Without Trumpet or Drum |