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name: "D'Urville Martin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/durville-martin"
roles: []
born: "11 February 1939"
died: "28 May 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:51:51.535196+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# D'Urville Martin

Actor. Born 11 February 1939 in New York City, New York. Died 28 May 1984.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 February 1939, New York City, New York
- **Died:** 28 May 1984
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Urville_Martin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5203179, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552121/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109086

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md) (70)

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## Biography

D'Urville Martin (1939–1984) was an American actor and director who worked in film and television. Born in New York City, he began his career in the mid-1960s with small roles in *Black Like Me* (1964) and *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), in which he played Frankie.

Martin appeared regularly in 1970s blaxploitation films, including *Rosemary's Baby* (1968) as Diego, *Black Caesar* (1973) as Reverend Rufus, *Hell Up in Harlem* (1973), *Boss Nigger* (1975) and *Sheba, Baby* (1975). He also directed *Dolemite* (1975), in which he played Willie Green, and *Disco 9000* (1977). His television credits include guest roles in series such as *The Monkees* and *The Invaders*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), Fi1m 70, as Frankie — [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Bear* (1984), as Billy
- *The Big Score* (1983), as Easy
- *Blind Rage* (1976), as Willie Black
- *The Human Tornado* (1976), Second Unit Director
- *Disco 9000* (1976), Director
- *Death Journey* (1976), as Gas Station Attendant
- *Boss Nigger* (1975), as Amos
- *Dolemite* (1975), as Willie Green · Director
- *Sheba, Baby* (1975), as Pilot
- *Hell Up In Harlem* (1973), as Reverend Rufus
- *Five on the Black Hand Side* (1973), as Booker T.
- *The Soul of Nigger Charley* (1973), as Toby
- *Book of Numbers* (1973), as Billy Bowlegs
- *Black Caesar* (1973), as Rev. Rufus
- *Hammer* (1972), as Sonny
- *The Final Comedown* (1972), as Billy Joe Ashley · Associate Producer
- *The Legend of Nigger Charley* (1972), as Toby
- *Watermelon Man* (1970), as Bus Driver
- *The Name of the Game* (1968), series, as Carlton
- *A Time to Sing* (1968), as Luke Harper
- *Rosemary's Baby* (1968), as Diego
- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), as Frankie — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)
- *The Invaders* (1967), series, as Casey
- *The Monkees* (1966), series, as The Champ
- *Black Like Me* (1964), Actor

## Gallery

- ![D'Urville Martin](https://film.one/media/person/1242889/gallery-2d1f50751a49.jpg) D'Urville Martin — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/D%27urville_Martin_1974.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![D'Urville Martin](https://film.one/media/person/1242889/gallery-2029f2df7ada.jpg) D'Urville Martin — Image via TMDB

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