Jacques Martial
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Jacques Martial.
Born: November 7, 1955
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Known For
The Flood Drummers
Based on the play by Hélène Cixous, filmed in 2002, Tambours sur la Digue is a story written by Hélène Cixous based on an ancient Asian fable about who shall be saved during a flood and presented by live actors as puppets and puppeteers, evoking the theatrical traditions of Japanese Noh and bunraku.
A Love Story
Justine has never dated a woman, and Katia knows her life is hanging by a thread. But when they meet, it's love at first sight. Katia and Justine decide to confront life living a love story, and giving birth to a baby girl, Jeanne. Twelve years later, Justine come to an orderly life and Katia, who kept the child, learn she is doomed. She has to find urgently a guardian for her daughter. Her only option : her brother William, a cynical and desillusioned writer...
Omnibus
A commuter suddenly realizes he's mistakenly boarded the express train and desperately tries to get off between stations.
Le souffle du dragon
In Reims, a group of women meet every week aboard a strange boat with a dragon head. Sandrine, Rose-Marie, Poups and Fanny don't know each other, but they all have in common that they have been fighting breast cancer. On the advice of their oncologist, Dr. Cuvelier, they will row to prevent recurrence, to rebuild themselves physically and morally, but also to exorcise the fear that lives inside them.
Chillers
A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.
Voyager
April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate?
Navarro
Out of the norm police officer Navarro and his team investigate the most troubling, serious and heart rendering cases in the city of Paris.
Capitaine Marleau
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
The School Teacher
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Broken English
Follows the story of Sarah, who comes under fire from her family, friends and colleagues when she marries an African man, Maas. When she discovers that Maas is part of an underground group of South African freedom fighters, she must analyze her own political and sexual beliefs.
Filmography
as Pierre-Edouard TOUSSAINT
as Directeur Espacétudes
as Philippe, l'éditeur
as Eden
as Le colonel Lebrun
as Raymond
as L'Architecte (1ére partie)
as Félix
as Cicéron (Kidnappeur #1)
as Abel
as The Conductor
as African Unesco
as Gauvin, le maire de Cayenne
as Inspecteur Bain-Marie
as Gerard
as Rainier
as Un Travesti Claude Symprol
as Dominique
as The black
as Léopold, nurse at the hospital where Jacqueline Lajoie is
as Maas