Henri Marteau

Known for ActingBorn 1933-01-16Died 2005-01-21Reims, France

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.Read more

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Les Filles du maître de chai

The Eagle and the Horse

Without Trumpet or Drum

Le Petit Monde de Marie-Plaisance

Les coquelicots sont revenus

Richelieu ou La journée des dupes

The Confession

Indochine

Ardéchois, cœur fidèle

Docteur Teyran

Saint-Just and the Force of Things

One Morning in June 1940

Replay

The Black Indies

The Unfaithful Wife

The Restaurant

A Cop

Killing Time

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

The Bit Between the Teeth

Carrot Top

The Question

Operation Leopard

Doctor Justice

La fille des nuages

Les brouches

Fred connexion

La boucle d'oreille

Les Déracinés

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes