From “Navarro” to Anne Hidalgo. This is the itinerary of Jacques Martial, “a great man of theater, cinema and television” who died this Wednesday. The tribute is signed by the mayor of Paris who underlines “more than 50 years of a magnificent career” of the one who had joined his municipal team in 2020.
Elected municipal councilor, he had become to Anne Hidalgo “delegate in charge of overseas and, in November 2022, assistant in charge of overseas”. “His fight”, according to the press release from the city of Paris, focused on “the work of memory on slavery and its abolitions and especially the visibility of the great figures of overseas in the Parisian public space”.
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In his acting career, Jacques Martial had played in the theater: “Racine, Shakespeare, Mérimée, Jules Renard, Giraudoux”, lists the city, before listing the directors with whom he worked or the actors he dubbed: “Samuel Fuller, John Berry, Sam Karmann or Robert Kramer” and “Samuel L. Jackson, twenty Rhames, Washington or Wesley Snipes ”.
But the general public remembers him for his role as “Bain Marie” in the police series Navarro Alongside Roger Hanin.