
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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