Death of Jacques Martial, actor-voice actor and deputy mayor of Paris
Paris Mayor Jacques Martial, a stage and film actor and voice actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Denzel Washington, died overnight Tuesday, August 13, following a long illness, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement.
The mayor praised him as "a great man of theatre, cinema and television" . Jacques Martial, who died at the age of 69, was particularly well-known to the general public for his role as Bain-Marie in the police series "Navarro" alongside Roger Hanin.
In cinema, "he had worked with the greatest" , recalled the press release from the mayor of Paris, such as filmmakers "Samuel Fuller, John Berry, Sam Karmann and Robert Kramer" .
He has also dubbed several American actors, lending his voice to the French versions of Samuel L. Jackson , Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes.
Jacques Martial, born in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) to Guadeloupean parents, was "a man committed to the memory of slavery, the promotion of the creativity of overseas artists, and the visibility of black artists," Anne Hidalgo emphasized. He notably performed at the theater Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by the Martinican writer Aimé Césaire and chaired the Mémorial ACTe, the slavery museum in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), from 2015 to 2020.
"He was unanimously appreciated by all his colleagues, kind, cultured, full of humor," paid tribute to him the Paris MP Emmanuel Grégoire, who had included him on his list in the 12th arrondissement for the 2020 municipal elections. In November 2022, he was appointed deputy mayor of Paris, responsible for overseas territories.
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