Henri Marteau
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.
Acting
Movie
The Restaurant
as Le second inspecteur adjoint
1966
Movie
A Cop
as Police Officer Instructor of Shooting
1972
Movie
Indochine
as Emile Devries
1992
Movie
The Unfaithful Wife
as Paul
1969
Movie
The Confession
as Policeman
1970
TV
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
as Paul
1997
Movie
Carrot Top
as Le grand-père
2003
Movie
Operation Leopard
as Chamfort
1980
Movie
Doctor Justice
1975
Movie
Killing Time
as Igor Malevitch
1987
Movie
The Bit Between the Teeth
as Le ministre
1979
Movie
The Question
as Colonel Treguier
1977
Movie
The Black Indies
as deuxième policier
1964
Movie
Replay
1977
TV
Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
as Lyonnais
1974
Movie
Saint-Just and the Force of Things
as Lazare Carnot
1975
Movie
Les brouches
as Fernand
1994
Movie
La fille des nuages
as Germain
1997
Movie
Without Trumpet or Drum
1959
Movie
Les coquelicots sont revenus
as Paul
1999
Movie
One Morning in June 1940
as Lepage
1974
Movie
The Eagle and the Horse
1994
Movie
Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
as Maréchal de Bassompierre
1983
TV
Le Petit Monde de Marie-Plaisance
as Georges Cournebosc
1969