Henri Marteau
Also Known As: Henri Robert Marteau
Biography: Les amateurs de cinéma de l'après-guerre, se souviendront du visage d'Henri Marteau, second rôle assez prolifique, mais dont le nom a été quelque peu oublié. Ses débuts, à la limite de la figuration, expliquent son absence de certains génériques. Il apparaît quelques secondes dansUn témoin dans la ville, de Édouard Molinaro, dans Le Grand Restaurant avec Louis de Funès où il incarne tout aussi brièvement, le deuxième inspecteur. Dans Le mors aux dents, il sera ministre, puis automobiliste en panne dans le film deJean L'Hôte, La Communale, trafiquant dans Une Sale Affaire. On notera surtout sa prestation comme colon français et père de Catherine Deneuve, dans Indochine. On le découvrira plus facilement à la télévision, dans Les coquelicots sont revenus et Poil de carotte de Richard Bohringer. Également au détour de bon nombre d'épisodes des Cinq Dernières Minutes avec Raymond Souplex, mais aussi dans la saison avec Jacques Debary, et également dans Les filles du maître de chai. Il meurt à Paris à l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, à l'âge de soixante-douze ans.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reims, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 16, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 21, 2005
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Indochine
Overview: Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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The Unfaithful Wife
Overview: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Overview: Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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A Cop
Overview: A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Les brouches
Overview: Somewhere in the Drôme Valley, there is a farm where old shepherd Fernand lives with his two sons. A young woman arrives at the farm to learn the farm-work and disturbs the calm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-26
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Carrot Top
Overview: A good-natured kid struggles to earn his mother's love without much success.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-14
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Operation Leopard
Overview: In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Doctor Justice
Overview: Based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for "Pif Gadget", a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Les Déracinés
Overview: 1962: events in Algeria. Captain Sainbenin has just taken over the leadership of a newly created fighter commando. His relationship with the hierarchy is strained. To this war of a new type, Sainbenin intends to apply methods of a new kind. Everything is good to find the "rebels": new intelligence system, new interrogation system. When in Algiers a putsch is organized against De Gaulle by 4 of his generals, Sainbenin's men are divided: should they remain faithful to De Gaulle, or take the side of French Algeria against all odds? tragic fate of a handful of uprooted people fighting for a patriotic ideal and sacrificed in the name of this ideal.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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The Black Indies
Overview: In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mine.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Overview: Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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La fille des nuages
Overview: After breaking up with her fiancé, a young French engineer gets closer to a fellow agronomist with whom she had a brief affair ten years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-06
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Les coquelicots sont revenus
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-20
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One Morning in June 1940
Overview: 18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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The Question
Overview: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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The Eagle and the Horse
Overview: French Canadian TV-Movie
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-14
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Fred connexion
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Killing Time
Overview: A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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Replay
Overview: When François' wife Cecile was leaving him because of his affairs with other women, she had an auto accident. In this drama, he makes uses of her amnesia to try to win her back and misleads her at every turn in her quest to recover her memories.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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