Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 16, 1933
Died
Jan 21, 2005
Place of Birth
Reims, France
Credits
30 titles
Henri Marteau
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.
Known For
Filmography
Carrot Top
Le grand-père
Les coquelicots sont revenus
Paul
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Paul
Les Filles du maître de chai
Léon
La fille des nuages
Germain
The Eagle and the Horse
Les brouches
Fernand
Indochine
Emile Devries
Killing Time
Igor Malevitch
Fred connexion
Poutin
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
Maréchal de Bassompierre
Docteur Teyran
L'inspecteur Maneaud
Operation Leopard
Chamfort
The Bit Between the Teeth
Le ministre
La boucle d'oreille
Le commissaire
Replay
The Question
Colonel Treguier
Doctor Justice
Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Lazare Carnot
Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
Lyonnais
One Morning in June 1940
Lepage
Un Flic
Police Officer Instructor of Shooting
Les Déracinés
Captain Sainbenin
The Confession
Policeman
Le Petit Monde de Marie-Plaisance
Georges Cournebosc
The Unfaithful Wife
Paul
The Restaurant
Le second inspecteur adjoint
The Black Indies
deuxième policier
Without Trumpet or Drum
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Louis Prinquiau