“A great theater, film and television man.” In a statement published on Wednesday, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced the death of her assistant Jacques Martial. Also actor and folder, he succumbed at the age of 69 to a long illness at night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Jacques Martial, born in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) of Guadeloupens’s parents, was remarkably known by the general public for the role of a series of Bain-Marie in the police series Navarrese Next to Roger Hanin.
At the cinema, “he had worked with the elders,” said the press release of the mayor of Paris, such as the filmmakers “Samuel Fuller, John Berry, Sam Karmann or Robert Kramer.” He also doubled several American black actors, lending his voice to the French versions of Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington or Wesley Snipes.
“A committed man”
Jacques Martial was “a man involved in the memory of slavery, the assessment of the creativity of the overseas artists and the visibility of the black artists,” he said to Anne Hidalgo. He interpreted significantly in the theater Back to the native country Of the writer Martínico Aimé Césaire and presided over the Memorial Law, the Museum of Slavery of Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadalupe), from 2015 to 2020.
“He was very appreciated unanimously by all his colleagues, friendly, cultivated, full of humor,” he wanted to pay tribute to the deputy of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire, who had taken him to his list in the 12th district for the municipal elections of 2020.
In November 2022, he was appointed assistant to the mayor of Paris, in charge of abroad.
Source: BFM TV
