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Henri Marteau

Acting Born Jan 16, 1933 Reims, France 24 credits

Biography

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.

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Known for

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

as Paul
Film

Indochine

as Emile Devries

Full filmography

  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Louis Prinquiau
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Étienne
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Philippe Vignaud
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Grégoire
  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958) as Antoine
  • Joséphine, Guardian Angel (1997) as Paul
  • Indochine (1992) as Emile Devries
  • The Unfaithful Wife (1969) as Paul
  • A Cop (1972) as Police Officer Instructor of Shooting
  • The Restaurant (1966) as Le second inspecteur adjoint
  • The Confession (1970) as Policeman
  • Le Petit Monde de Marie-Plaisance (1969) as Georges Cournebosc
  • Docteur Teyran (1980) as L'inspecteur Maneaud
  • Ardéchois, cœur fidèle (1974) as Lyonnais
  • Operation Leopard (1980) as Chamfort
  • Les Filles du maître de chai (1997) as Léon
  • Les Déracinés (1972) as Captain Sainbenin
  • The Black Indies (1964) as deuxième policier
  • Saint-Just and the Force of Things (1975) as Lazare Carnot
  • Carrot Top (2003) as Le grand-père
  • The Bit Between the Teeth (1979) as Le ministre
  • The Question (1977) as Colonel Treguier
  • The Eagle and the Horse (1994)
  • One Morning in June 1940 (1974) as Lepage