André Maturette (born 1914) was a prisoner in the French Guiana prison colony of Devil's Island who attempted to escape with Henri Charrière and Joanes Clousiot.^[1]

Maturette was born in France and was arrested in 1932 when he was seventeen for the murder of a taxi cab driver.^[2] He was originally sentenced to death by guillotine, but was later sentenced to life because of his young age.^[2]

In early 1933, Maturette was sent to the penal colony in French Guiana where he met Charrière and Joanes Clousiot, with whom he would eventually escape.^[3] In the early morning hours of 28 November 1933 the three escaped from the hospital in Cayenne prison and went to a leper colony,^[4] buying a boat from the lepers led by Toussaint.^[5][6][7]

Eventually, they were all recaptured in Colombia, and were returned to French authorities who sentenced them to two years solitary confinement.^[2] Clousiot died shortly after being released from solitary.^[2] Charrière survived solitary confinement and successfully escaped from Devil's Island on a bag of coconuts, while Maturette stayed in Royale working in the hospital.^[2]

In the 1950s, Maturette was living and married in Venezuela.^[2] In the 1973 film Papillon, he was portrayed by Robert Deman.^[8] In the 2017 film adaptation of the same name, directed by Michael Noer, Maturette (played by Joel Basman) is shot by Colombian policemen after having escaped to a native village.

• List of fugitives from justice who disappeared