Jacques François
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-05-16
Day of Death
2003-11-25 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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
Acting
(2013)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
Eros Therapy
as M. de la Touche
(2003)
(2001)
Fifi Martingale
as Ambassador
(2000)
The King Is Dancing
as Cambefort
(2000)
Actors
as Jacques François
(1998)
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice
(1996)
North Star
as Colonel Henry Johnson
(1996)
My Man
as 2nd client
(1995)
La Veuve de l'architecte
as Jeannot
(1993)
George et Margaret
as Malcolm Smith
(1992)
Leopard Ties
as Bergaux Latour
(1992)
My Wife's Girlfriends
as Gilbert Thonon
(1992)
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Theodore
(1991)
Robinson and Company
as Robinson (Voice)
(1991)
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
(1991)
Des cadavres à la pelle
as Le Comte Emile
(1991)
Triplex
as M. Challes
(1991)
(1989)
My Best Pals
as M. Thuiliet
(1986)
Twist Again in Moscow
as Marshal Bassounov
(1986)
Sauve-toi, Lola
as Charles Schneider
(1985)
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
as Necker
(1984)
The Blood of Others
as Colonel Catelas
(1984)
Le Tueur triste
as Notaire
(1984)
Led by the Nose
as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
(1983)
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
(1983)
The African
as Le docteur Patterson
(1982)
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
(1982)
Bankers Also Have Souls
as Jacques Loriol
(1982)
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Colonel
(1982)
Tête à claques
as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
(1982)
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Fred Great
(1981)
The Ones That Got Away
as The stylish traveler
(1981)
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
as Jacques Loriol
(1981)
Il est important d'être aimé
as Jack Worthing
(1981)
Shut Up When You Speak!
as Diafoirus
(1981)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Le vieux
(1980)
L'Amant complaisant
as Victor Rhodes
(1979)
Heart to Heart
as M. Delorme
(1979)
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as der Oberst
(1979)
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Aurélien Brucheloir
(1979)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
(1979)
Seven Days in January
as Don Thomas
(1978)
Too Shy to Try
as Mr. Henri
(1978)
The Discord
as Le préfet
(1978)
Le Greluchon délicat
as Michel
(1978)
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
(1977)
Sorcerer
as Lefevre
(1976)
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Charles
(1976)
The Toy
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
(1975)
Special Section
as Maurice Gabolde
(1975)
Cat and Mouse
as Police Prefect
(1974)
Chinese In Paris
as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
(1974)
Antoine and Sebastian
as Captain
(1973)
The Day of the Jackal
as Pascal
(1973)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as General
(1973)
December
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
(1973)
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
as Delfan
(1972)
The Assassination
as Lestienne
(1972)
(1972)
Églantine
as Edmond
(1970)
Earth Light
as Elstir, l'Éditeur
(1970)
Un jeu d'enfer
as Benjamin Constant
(1967)
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
(1966)
Un mois à la campagne
as Rakitine
(1963)
Caterina
as Giorgio
(1961)
La Mort de Pompée
as Photin
(1955)
To Paris with Love
as Victor de Colville
(1955)
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Rodolphe Chartier
(1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Duke de Saint-Simon
(1954)
At the Order of the Czar
as Franz Liszt
(1953)
The Three Musketeers
as Aramis
(1953)
South of Algiers
as Jacques Farnod
(1953)
The Father of the Girl
as Michel Leclair
(1953)
My Childish Father
as Gérard Morrison
(1952)
Three Women
as Horace (segment "Mouche")
(1951)
Encore
as Pierre, French Steward
(1951)
Edward and Caroline
as Alain Beauchamp
(1951)
Skipper Next to God
as The doctor
(1951)
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
as Le valet
(1950)
Pact with the Devil
as Andrea Mola
(1949)
The Barkleys of Broadway
as Jacques Barredout
(1948)
Just a Big Simple Girl
as Mick
(1946)
Queen's Necklace
as Count of Artois (uncredited)
(1943)
Captain Fracasse
as Vidalenc
(1942)
Crew
(1980)
L'Amant complaisant
Director