Bernard Brumberg " Jacques Martin "

Jacques Martin, born June 22, 1933 in Lyon (fourth) in the Rhone and died September 14, 2007 in Biarritz in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques as the result of cancer, is an actor, journalist, radio host and television French.

After starting the theater in 1949, he produced and hosted between 1970 and 1990 many entertainment as Le Petit Rapporteur, The Sunday School of fans or Martin.

Son of Joanne Martin, industrial, and Germaine Ducerf, Jacques Martin is high among the Jesuits. He turns first to the theater in 1949 following the course of Charles Dullin.

He began his television career under the pseudonym Ducerf Télé-Strasbourg, France 3 Alsace became, where he leads in the 1950 issue Not very show. In Strasbourg, he is also part of the troupe's satirical cabaret Alsatian Germain Muller, the Barabli between 1959 and 1962. Friendship for Germain Muller, he will attend the last show of Barabli during the New Year's Eve 1989.

Spotted by Jacques Chancel, he joined and created the ORTF with Jean Yanne issue 1 = 3, which will be a great popular success. He sang parodies of such great historical events. His sketch representing Napoleon and his marshals as Cycling the Tour de France also earned him a lawsuit and threats of dismissal and especially the premature end of the show.

In 1969, he presented the ceremony awards at Cannes and anime Midi-Midi Magazine''and''At Home with Daniel Gilbert, from 1969 to 1975. In one of these programs, he invited the Finance Minister at the time, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who agrees to play the accordion. In 1973-1974, he co-present alongside Evelyn Pagès the variety show called Taratata conducted by Bernard Lion3 - not to be confused with the issue presented and produced by Taratata Nagui. Nagui also obtain permission from Jacques Martin to use the name issue.
The passions of a clown

Jacques Martin also performs as a singer, including providing the first part of Jacques Brel at the Olympia, put on a show combining songs and parodies to Bobino and involved in the issue The Best of songs. He composed songs, wrote a musical, Petitpatapon in 1968, which ended in failure, then try their hand at making films with Na! in 1973. He is also the actor in Erotissimo (1968), Sex-shop (1972), the survivor of Tikéroa (John The Host, 1983) and the pass of Sans-Souci (1982). In 1978, he recorded with Jane Rhodes and Rémy Corazza a version of the operetta La Belle Hélène under the direction of Alain Lombard, in which he plays King Menelaus, husband of Helen.
The facilitator insolent and popular

Jacques Martin in September 1974 launched the satirical Le Petit Rapporteur parody of a newscast scheduled every Sunday on the 1st line which was still for a few weeks ORTF, and in September following, TF1. Tensions with members of his team, and a film project with producer Carlo Ponti stop doing the show June 26, 1976. In 1977 at the request of Marcel Jullian Jacques Martin comes on Antenne 2 and uses the principle of issue with the lens (1977 -1978). Meanwhile, he hosted with Jean Yanne a daily radio program on RTL.

Regular variety shows like Big Top Children or to (Marita and Gilbert Carpentier), Jacques Martin is with Michel Drucker and Guy Lux star hosts one of the variety on French television (then public until 1984) . In 1977 and 1978 he created and presented a series of programs for Sundays of Antenne 2, under the title Good Sunday programs including: The gentlemen tell us a game show, fans of the school co presented with Stephane Collaro Sunday will be included in Martin, Against Ut, and Music and Music a variety show broadcast in the evening.

The Sunday program the most fame was Jacques Martin's School of fans, created in November 1977 with the Godmother Chantal Goya, in which children were interpreting the songs of a guest. The choke points of the show marked the minds and cartoonists: children and noting their service Jacques Martin questioning the parents in the room, whose father often armed with a camcorder. For the record, Vanessa Paradis went on this show as a child (3 May 1981 to 8 years).

After a hiatus of one year between 1978 and 1979, he returned to television in 1980 with a program called Kids Draw me a sheep.

Antenne 2 then proposes to resume Sunday antenna. His program Sunday Martin, recorded live every Saturday at the Empire Theatre in Paris and broadcast every Sunday afternoon on Antenne 2, incorporates the principle of Good Sunday by mixing humor, variety shows and featured in several programs that s' shackle: Enter the artists led a cultural magazine with Daniel Patte, Incredible but true, that is replaced in 1983 by a game show If I remember correctly, in 1985 another game Everyone knows himself The world is replaced by to you from 1987 to 1997, and last season by your applause Under (1997). The School of fans, travelers in history, Tea dance, and so do, do, do, which saw the debut of Laurent Gerra, Virginie Lemoine, Laurent Ruquier, Julien Courbet or Baffie Laurent.


At the same time, Jacques Martin participates regularly with his old friend Jean Yanne, with large heads, the issue of Philippe Bouvard on RTL, then the issue will be s'gêner Laurent Ruquier on Europe 1.

In 1998, learning the decision of France 2 to stop its program on Sunday in the program under your applause at the end of the season, Jacques Martin is a victim on the night of a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and requires it to suspend its broadcasts. Paul Ceuzin and Jean-Claude Brialy then replace it on the fly until the end of the season. Emissions are not renewed.

In March 1999 he was made ​​a Knight of the Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac.

After participating occasionally in radio and television (in 2003, he was invited by Laurent Ruquier on the set of premium "We've tried everything" to pay tribute to Jean Yanne), he retired to his home in Neuilly then, his health deteriorating, in a nursing home in Courbevoie. He decided in November 2006 to join the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, a town where he died September 14, 2007 as the result of a generalized cancer. The same day, most major radio and French television alter their program to honor him and discuss his career.

His funeral was celebrated September 20, 2007 in the primatial St. John of Lyon, in the presence of his relatives, children, successive wives and many government officials and the world of television and entertainment. Jacques Martin is buried in the cemetery of the Guillotière, Lyon, from the parents.

End chef, Jacques Martin was the grand-son of Joannes Ducerf, chef of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, who was also the famous restaurant in Lyon The Universal.

Both Pierre Bonte (in Happiness is in the field) and Danièle Evenou (in Laughing to keep from crying) mention his talent and perfectionism, but also its character can be difficult and angry.

Jacques Martin was the father of ten children. He married three times and has cohabited with actresses Marion Game and Danièle Evenou.
His first wife, Annie Lefèvre, he had two children: David Martin, born in 1961, chef and television presenter, and Elise.
Late 60s-early 70s, he had as a companion of actress Marion Game with whom he had two son, Mathieu and Roman.
He then lived with the actress Danièle Evenou, with whom he had two son, Frederick (b. 1973), radio host, and Jean-Baptiste Martin (born 1976), actor and musician.

He married Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz with whom he had two daughters: Judith (born 1984) and Jeanne-Marie (born 1987). The marriage of Jacques Martin and Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz was held August 10, 1984, as mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was celebrated by its mayor at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, who later married the bride.
He married April 20, 1992 his last girlfriend, Celine Drink, 37 years his junior, met on the set of the world is yours she was one of the hostesses. She is the mother of his two youngest children, Juliet and Clovis, born in 1994 and 1999.