Jacques François
Born
May 16, 1920
Died
November 25, 2003 (83 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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
Eros Therapy
M. de la Touche
2004
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Self
2003
Fifi Martingale
Ambassador
2001
The King Is Dancing
Cambefort
2000
Actors
Jacques François
2000
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Maurice
1998
My Man
2nd client
1996
North Star
Colonel Henry Johnson
1996
La Veuve de l'architecte
Jeannot
1995
George et Margaret
Malcolm Smith
1993
My Wife's Girlfriends
Gilbert Thonon
1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Theodore
1992
Leopard Ties
Bergaux Latour
1992
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
(Voice) · (10 episodes)
1992
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Louis
1991
Robinson and Company
Robinson (Voice)
1991
Triplex
M. Challes
1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1991
Stars 90
Self · (1 episode)
1990
Palace
Félix, le maître d'hôtel · (6 episodes)
1988
Sacrée soirée
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Twist Again in Moscow
Marshal Bassounov
1986
Sauve-toi, Lola
Charles Schneider
1986
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Necker
1985
Le Tueur triste
Notaire
1984
Led by the Nose
Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
1984
The Blood of Others
Colonel Catelas
1984
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1983
The African
Le docteur Patterson
1983
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
1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Fred Great
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self · (3 episodes)
1982
Shut Up When You Speak!
Diafoirus
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Le vieux
1981
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Jacques Loriol
1981
The Ones That Got Away
The stylish traveler
1981
Pause-café
M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne · (6 episodes)
1981
Il est important d'être aimé
Jack Worthing
1981
L'Amant complaisant
Victor Rhodes
1980
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Aurélien Brucheloir
1979
Seven Days in January
Don Thomas
1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
der Oberst
1979
Heart to Heart
M. Delorme
1979
Too Shy to Try
Mr. Henri
1978
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
1978
The Discord
Le préfet
1978
Le Greluchon délicat
Michel
1978
Sorcerer
Lefevre
1977
The Toy
Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Charles
1976
Cat and Mouse
Police Prefect
1975
Special Section
Maurice Gabolde
1975
Chinese In Paris
Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
1974
Antoine and Sebastian
Captain
1974
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
General
1973
The Day of the Jackal
Pascal
1973
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Delfan
1973
December
Serge de la Prévoteraie
1973
The Assassination
Lestienne
1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Plantier
1972
Églantine
Edmond
1972
La Brigade des maléfices
L'inspecteur principal · (6 episodes)
1971
Earth Light
Elstir, l'Éditeur
1970
Un jeu d'enfer
Benjamin Constant
1970
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
1967
Un mois à la campagne
Rakitine
1966
Caterina
Giorgio
1963
La Mort de Pompée
Photin
1961
The Grand Manoeuvre
Rodolphe Chartier
1955
To Paris with Love
Victor de Colville
1955
At the Order of the Czar
Franz Liszt
1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Duke de Saint-Simon
1954
The Three Musketeers
Aramis
1953
The Father of the Girl
Michel Leclair
1953
My Childish Father
Gérard Morrison
1953
South of Algiers
Jacques Farnod
1953
Three Women
Horace (segment "Mouche")
1952
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Le valet
1951
Encore
Pierre, French Steward
1951
Edward and Caroline
Alain Beauchamp
1951
Skipper Next to God
The doctor
1951
Pact with the Devil
Andrea Mola
1950
The Barkleys of Broadway
Jacques Barredout
1949
Just a Big Simple Girl
Mick
1948
Queen's Necklace
Count of Artois (uncredited)
1946
Captain Fracasse
Vidalenc
1943
Business Is Business
1942