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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 16, 1920
Place of Birth:
Paris, France
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Jacques François
Biography
Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions. In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in The Barkleys of Broadway (Charles Walters, 1949) he returned to France. François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
During World War II, he served as a captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre.
In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) he returned to France.
François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Eros Therapy | M. de la Touche |
| 2003 | Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres | Self |
| 2001 | Fifi Martingale | Ambassador |
| 2000 | Actors | Jacques François |
| 2000 | The King Is Dancing | Cambefort |
| 1998 | The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time | Maurice |
| 1996 | My Man | 2nd client |
| 1996 | North Star | Colonel Henry Johnson |
| 1995 | La Veuve de l'architecte | Jeannot |
| 1993 | George et Margaret | Malcolm Smith |
| 1992 | Leopard Ties | Bergaux Latour |
| 1992 | Les Danseurs du Mozambique | Theodore |
| 1992 | My Wife's Girlfriends | Gilbert Thonon |
| 1991 | L'Opération Corned Beef | Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale |
| 1991 | Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles | Louis |
| 1991 | Robinson and Company | Robinson (Voice) |
| 1991 | Triplex | M. Challes |
| 1986 | Twist Again in Moscow | Marshal Bassounov |
| 1986 | Sauve-toi, Lola | Charles Schneider |
| 1985 | Liberté, égalité, choucroute | Necker |
| 1984 | The Blood of Others | Colonel Catelas |
| 1984 | Le Tueur triste | Notaire |
| 1984 | Led by the Nose | Le Docteur Gaby Choulet |
| 1983 | The African | Le docteur Patterson |
| 1983 | Gramps Is in the Resistance | Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant |
| 1982 | A Thousand Billion Dollars | Fred Great |
| 1982 | The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes | Colonel |
| 1982 | Santa Claus Is a Stinker | Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier |
| 1982 | Bankers Also Have Souls | Jacques Loriol |
| 1982 | Tête à claques | Mr. Crispin-Vautier |
| 1981 | Shut Up When You Speak! | Diafoirus |
| 1981 | The Ones That Got Away | The stylish traveler |
| 1981 | Il est important d'être aimé | Jack Worthing |
| 1981 | We're Not Angels... Neither Are They | Jacques Loriol |
| 1981 | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Le vieux |
| 1980 | L'Amant complaisant | Victor Rhodes |
| 1979 | The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space | der Oberst |
| 1979 | I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs | Aurélien Brucheloir |
| 1979 | Heart to Heart | M. Delorme |
| 1979 | Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses | Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine |
| 1979 | Seven Days in January | Don Thomas |
| 1978 | The Discord | Le préfet |
| 1978 | Too Shy to Try | Mr. Henri |
| 1978 | One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence | Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel |
| 1978 | Le Greluchon délicat | Michel |
| 1977 | Sorcerer | Lefevre |
| 1976 | The Toy | Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper |
| 1976 | Chi dice donna, dice donna | Charles |
| 1975 | Cat and Mouse | Police Prefect |
| 1975 | Special Section | Maurice Gabolde |
| 1974 | Antoine and Sebastian | Captain |
| 1974 | Chinese In Paris | Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Pascal |
| 1973 | Moi y'en a vouloir des sous | Delfan |
| 1973 | The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | General |
| 1973 | December | Serge de la Prévoteraie |
| 1972 | The Assassination | Lestienne |
| 1972 | Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful | Plantier |
| 1972 | Églantine | Edmond |
| 1970 | Un jeu d'enfer | Benjamin Constant |
| 1970 | Earth Light | Elstir, l'Éditeur |
| 1967 | An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1966 | Un mois à la campagne | Rakitine |
| 1963 | Caterina | Giorgio |
| 1961 | La Mort de Pompée | Photin |
| 1955 | The Grand Manoeuvre | Rodolphe Chartier |
| 1955 | To Paris with Love | Victor de Colville |
| 1954 | Royal Affairs in Versailles | Duke de Saint-Simon |
| 1954 | At the Order of the Czar | Franz Liszt |
| 1953 | South of Algiers | Jacques Farnod |
| 1953 | My Childish Father | Gérard Morrison |
| 1953 | The Three Musketeers | Aramis |
| 1953 | The Father of the Girl | Michel Leclair |
| 1952 | Three Women | Horace (segment "Mouche") |
| 1951 | Skipper Next to God | The doctor |
| 1951 | Edward and Caroline | Alain Beauchamp |
| 1951 | Encore | Pierre, French Steward |
| 1951 | Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny | Le valet |
| 1950 | Pact with the Devil | Andrea Mola |
| 1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway | Jacques Barredout |
| 1948 | Just a Big Simple Girl | Mick |
| 1946 | Queen's Necklace | Count of Artois (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Captain Fracasse | Vidalenc |
| 1942 | Business Is Business |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo | (Voice) |
| 1990 | Stars 90 | Self |
| 1988 | Palace | Félix, le maître d'hôtel |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self |
| 1981 | Pause-café | M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne |
| 1971 | La Brigade des maléfices | L'inspecteur principal |