Henri Marteau

Postwar 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 LHôtes 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 SaintLouis at the age of seventytwo