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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Movies (44)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Eros Therapy
as M. de la Touche
2004
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
as Self
2003
Fifi Martingale
as Ambassador
2001
The King Is Dancing
as Cambefort
2000
Actors
as Jacques François
2000
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice
1998
My Man
as 2nd client
1996
North Star
as Colonel Henry Johnson
1996
La Veuve de l'architecte
as Jeannot
1995
George et Margaret
as Malcolm Smith
1993
My Wife's Girlfriends
as Gilbert Thonon
1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Theodore
1992
Leopard Ties
as Bergaux Latour
1992
Des cadavres à la pelle
as Le Comte Emile
1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
as Louis
1991
Robinson and Company
as Robinson (Voice)
1991
Triplex
as M. Challes
1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1991
My Best Pals
as M. Thuiliet
1989
Twist Again in Moscow
as Marshal Bassounov
1986
Sauve-toi, Lola
as Charles Schneider
1986
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
as Necker
1985
Le Tueur triste
as Notaire
1984
Led by the Nose
as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
1984
Until September
as M Mauriac
1984
The Blood of Others
as Colonel Catelas
1984
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1983
The African
as Le docteur Patterson
1983
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Le colonel
1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
as Jacques Loriol
1982
Tête à claques
as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Fred Great
1982
Shut Up When You Speak!
as Diafoirus
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Le vieux
1981
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
as Jacques Loriol
1981
The Ones That Got Away
as The stylish traveler
1981
Il est important d'être aimé
as Jack Worthing
1981
L'Amant complaisant
as Victor Rhodes
1980
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Aurélien Brucheloir
1979
Seven Days in January
as Don Thomas
1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Le colonel de gendarmerie
1979
