Jacques Martial, assistant to the town hall of Paris, actor and duplicator, is dead

Actor of theater and cinema, doubler of Samuel L. Similarly, Jackson. However, Denzel Washington, the assistant at the town hall of Paris Jacques Martial died on the night of Tuesday 12 to Wednesday August 13, following a long illness, at the age of 69, announced the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. However, The councilor praised “A great man of theater, cinema and television”.

Jacques jacques martial, assistant town hall Martial was known for the role of a bain-marie in the police series Navarro Alongside Roger Hanin. In the cinema. “He had worked with the older ones”recalled the press release from the mayor of Paris as the filmmakers Samuel Fuller, John Berry, Robert Kramer or Sam Karmann. He also doubled several black American actors, lending his voice to Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington or Wesley Snipes, for French versions.

Jacques Martial. born in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) of Guadeloupes parents, was “A man engaged in the memory of slavery, the valuation of the creativity of ultramarine artists, and the visibility of black artists”said Anne Hidalgo. He notably interpreted in the theater “Notebook of a return to the native country” From the Martinican writer Aimé Césaire. presided over the act memorial, the Caribbean center of expressions and memory of the trafficking and slavery of Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), from 2015 to 2020.

“He was very unanimously appreciated by all his colleagues. kind, cultivated, full of humor”wanted to pay tribute to him the deputy of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire, who had taken him on his list in the 12^e Arrondissement for the municipal elections of 2020. In November 2022, he was appointed assistant to the mayor of Paris, in charge of overseas.