
Person
Henri Marteau
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 16, 1933
- Died
- Jan 21, 2005
- From
- Reims, 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.
Images
Credits

The Restaurant

Un Flic

Indochine

The Unfaithful Wife

The Confession

Joséphine, Guardian Angel

Carrot Top

Operation Leopard

Killing Time

Doctor Justice

The Bit Between the Teeth

The Question

The Black Indies

Replay

Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
Saint-Just and the Force of Things

Les brouches
La fille des nuages