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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Acting (84 movies)
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
The Blood of Others
1984
The Day of the Jackal
1973
The Discord
1978
Un mois à la campagne
1966
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
Too Shy to Try
1978
L'Opération Corned Beef
1991
Shut Up When You Speak!
1981
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955
Actors
2000
My Man
1996
La Veuve de l'architecte
1995
Bankers Also Have Souls
1982
Twist Again in Moscow
1986
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
1978
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
The African
1983
Business Is Business
1942
Captain Fracasse
1943
The Toy
1976
Queen's Necklace
1946
Cat and Mouse
1975
Just a Big Simple Girl
1948
Skipper Next to God
1951
Three Women
1952
La Mort de Pompée
1961
South of Algiers
1953
The Assassination
1972
The Ones That Got Away
1981
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1985
Edward and Caroline
1951
Eros Therapy
2004
Tête à claques
1982
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
Heart to Heart
1979
Fifi Martingale
2001
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
Le Tueur triste
1984
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
To Paris with Love
1955
The King Is Dancing
2000
My Childish Father
1953
Caterina
1963
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
Églantine
1972
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
Leopard Ties
1992
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
The Three Musketeers
1953
The Father of the Girl
1953
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1991
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992
December
1973
Le Greluchon délicat
1978
At the Order of the Czar
1954
Il est important d'être aimé
1981
Sorcerer
1977
Sauve-toi, Lola
1986
Special Section
1975
Encore
1951
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
1951
Antoine and Sebastian
1974
Robinson and Company
1991
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
Seven Days in January
1979
North Star
1996
Chinese In Paris
1974
My Wife's Girlfriends
1992
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
1981
Earth Light
1970
George et Margaret
1993
L'Amant complaisant
1980
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
Triplex
1991
Led by the Nose
1984
Des cadavres à la pelle
1991
My Best Pals
1989
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013
Directing (1 movie)
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