Jacques Martin

Jacques Martin is a actor, Journaliste and radio presenter and television French born on June 22nd, 1933 with Lyon the 4th (the Rhone) and deceased on September 14th, 2007 with Biarritz (Yrénées-Atlantiques) of the continuations of a cancer. After begin with the theater in 1949, it produced and animated between years 1970 and 1990 of many emissions of entertainment like the Small Rapporteur , the School of the fans or Sunday Martin .

A man of television

First steps

Wire of Joannès Martin, industrialist, and of Germaine Ducerf, Jacques Martin is high at the Jésuite S. It directs themselves initially towards the theater and follows from 1949 the courses of Charles Dullin. It begins its career with the Télévision under the pseudonym from Ducerf to TV-Strasbourg, become France 3 Alsace, where it very animates in the years 1950 the emission Pas show . Located by Pierre Tchernia, it joined ORTF and creates with Jean Yanne the emission 1 = 3 which will be a great popular success. It interprets there in particular historical parodies of great events. Besides its sketch representing Napoleon and his marshals in the form of cyclists of the Tour de France will be worth a lawsuit and threats of dismissal to him.

In 1969, it presents the ceremony of handing-over of the prices of the Cannes festival, then animates Midday-Magazine with Danièle Gilbert, of 1969 to 1975. During one of these emissions, it invites the Minister for Finance of the time, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, which agrees to play of the accordion.

Passions of a travelling acrobat

Jacques Martin also occurs as singer, in particular ensuring the first part of Jacques Brel the Olympia, assembling a spectacle associating songs and parodies with Bobino and taking part in the emission the Prize list of the songs . He composes of the songs, writes a musical comedy, Petitpatapon , in 1968, before testing himself with the realization of films with Na! in 1973. It makes also the actor in Erotissimo (1968), Sex-shop (1972) and the Busy one of the Without-Concern (1982). In 1978, it records with Jane Rhodos and Rémy Corazza a version of the operetta the Beautiful Helene under the direction of Alain Lombard.

The organizer insolate and popular

In 1975, Jacques Martin launches the satirical emission the Small Rapporteur a parody of tv news programmed each Sunday on TF1. Shifted humor and the freedom of tone of the chroniclers Pierre Desproges, Stephan Collaro and Daniel Prévost displease with the direction which decides to stop the emission at the end of one year. Jacques Martin then renews the experiment on Antenne 2 with the Spyglass (1976 - 1977). In parallel, it animates with Jean Yanne a daily radio broadcast on RTL.

Accustomed variety programmes like the Large Children or Signal to (of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier), Jacques Martin asserts himself gradually like the organizer high-speed motorboat of public television. During more than 20 years, between 1976 and 1998, there remains faithful to the station, imagining concepts of emissions which become family appointments for million televiewers.

Its program Sunday Martin , recorded in public each Saturday with the Theater of the Empire to Paris and diffused each Sunday afternoon on Antenna 2 (become France 2), humor mixture, varieties, spectacles and reports in several emissions like Incredible but true , the School of the fans , The dancing , the world is with you or Ainsi makes, makes, makes , which saw the blossoming of young talents such Laurent Gerra, Virginia Lemoine, Laurent Ruquier, Julien Courbet or Laurent Baffie.

The most re-elected Sunday emission of Jacques Martin was the School of the fans , created in November 1977 with for godmother Chantal Goya, and in whom children came to interpret the songs of a guest. The required passages of this emission marked the spirits and the caricaturists: children noting their service and Jacques Martin challenging the parents in the room, with of which the father often armed with a Video camera. For the anecdote, one will note that Vanessa Paradis passed in this emission when it was child (in 1981 to 8 years).

End of a career

In parallel, Jacques Martin takes part regularly, in company of his old accomplice Jean Yanne, with the Famous persons , the emission of Philippe Bouvard on RTL, then to the emission One will obstruct Laurent Ruquier on Europe 1.

In 1998, informed to the point stop of Under your applause , Jacques Martin is victim in the night of a cerebral vascular accident which leaves it partially paralyzed and obliges it to stop its emissions. Jean-Claude Brialy then replaces it with the foot raised until the end of the season. The emissions will not be renewed.

After having taken part episodically in radio programs and of television, it is withdrawn in its house with Neuilly, then, its health being degraded, in a medicalized residence with Courbevoie. It had decided in November 2006 to join the hotel of the Palate with Biarritz, city where it died on September 14th, 2007 of the continuations of a generalized cancer.

Its funerals were celebrated the September 20th 2007 in the Midsummer's Day cathedral of Lyon, in the presence of its close relations and of many personalities of the government and the world of television and the spectacle. Jacques Martin is buried with the cemetery of Guillotière, in Lyon, near his parents.

Private life

Fine cook, Jacques Martin was the grandson of Joannès Ducerf, chef of the tsar Nicolas II of Russia, which also held celebrates it restaurant of Lyon Universal the .

Jacques Martin was father of eight children. He married three times and lived in free union with the actress Danièle Évenou.

With his first wife, Anne Lefèvre, it had two children: David Martin, cook and presenter of television programs, and Elects.
It then lived with the actress Danièle Évenou, with whom it had two wire: Frederic (born in 1973), radio presenter, and Jean-Baptiste Martin (born in 1976), actor and musician.
It married the August 10th 1984 Cécilia Ciganer-Albeniz (future Cécilia Sarkozy) with which it had two girls: Judith (born in 1984) and Jeanne-Marie (born in 1987).
It marries the April 20th 1992 his/her last partner, Céline Boisson, met on the plate of the Monde is with you of which she was one of the hostesses. She is the mother of her the last two children, Juliette and Clovis, born in 1994 and 1999.

Homage to its death

The majority of the large chains of radio and television Frenchwomen, as of the advertisement of its death, modified their program of the day or the weekend to pay homage and evoke the career of the organizer.

External bond

Special program of Radio France on Jacques Martin in 2007

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