Jacques François

Jacques François

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1920-05-16

Died: 2003-11-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	Business Is Business		65
2	1943	Captain Fracasse	Vidalenc	63
3	1946	Queen's Necklace	Count of Artois (uncredited)	10
4	1948	Just a Big Simple Girl	Mick	0
5	1949	The Barkleys of Broadway	Jacques Barredout	68
6	1950	Pact with the Devil	Andrea Mola	0
7	1951	Skipper Next to God	The doctor	0
8	1951	Edward and Caroline	Alain Beauchamp	64
9	1951	Encore	Pierre, French Steward	62
10	1951	Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny	Le valet	56
11	1952	Three Women	Horace (segment "Mouche")	0
12	1953	South of Algiers	Jacques Farnod	60
13	1953	My Childish Father	Gérard Morrison	0
14	1953	The Father of the Girl	Michel Leclair	40
15	1953	The Three Musketeers	Aramis	63
16	1954	Royal Affairs in Versailles	Duke de Saint-Simon	68
17	1954	At the Order of the Czar	Franz Liszt	0
18	1955	To Paris with Love	Victor de Colville	52
19	1955	The Grand Manoeuvre	Rodolphe Chartier	61
20	1961	La Mort de Pompée	Photin	0
21	1963	Caterina	Giorgio	100
22	1966	Un mois à la campagne	Rakitine	0
23	1967	An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	0
24	1970	Un jeu d'enfer	Benjamin Constant	0
25	1970	Earth Light	Elstir, l'Éditeur	68
26	1972	Églantine	Edmond	60
27	1972	Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful	Plantier	65
28	1972	The Assassination	Lestienne	67
29	1973	December	Serge de la Prévoteraie	100
30	1973	Moi y'en a vouloir des sous	Delfan	63
31	1973	The Day of the Jackal	Pascal	75
32	1973	The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob	General	74
33	1974	Antoine and Sebastian	Captain	0
34	1974	Chinese In Paris	Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert	63
35	1975	Special Section	Maurice Gabolde	71
36	1975	Cat and Mouse	Police Prefect	57
37	1976	Chi dice donna, dice donna	Charles	57
38	1976	The Toy	Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper	69
39	1977	Sorcerer	Lefevre	74
40	1978	Le Greluchon délicat	Michel	0
41	1978	The Discord	Le préfet	64
42	1978	One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence	Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel	25
43	1978	Too Shy to Try	Mr. Henri	64
44	1979	Heart to Heart	M. Delorme	58
45	1979	The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space	der Oberst	61
46	1979	Seven Days in January	Don Thomas	60
47	1979	I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs	Aurélien Brucheloir	52
48	1979	Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses	Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine	63
49	1980	L'Amant complaisant	Victor Rhodes	0
50	1981	Il est important d'être aimé	Jack Worthing	0
51	1981	The Ones That Got Away	The stylish traveler	46
52	1981	We're Not Angels... Neither Are They	Jacques Loriol	67
53	1981	San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça	Le vieux	20
54	1981	Shut Up When You Speak!	Diafoirus	60
55	1982	A Thousand Billion Dollars	Fred Great	69
56	1982	Tête à claques	Mr. Crispin-Vautier	49
57	1982	Bankers Also Have Souls	Jacques Loriol	47
58	1982	Santa Claus Is a Stinker	Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier	73
59	1982	The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes	Colonel	60
60	1983	The African	Le docteur Patterson	63
61	1983	Gramps Is in the Resistance	Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant	69
62	1984	The Blood of Others	Colonel Catelas	50
63	1984	Led by the Nose	Le Docteur Gaby Choulet	55
64	1984	Le Tueur triste	Notaire	0
65	1985	Liberté, égalité, choucroute	Necker	60
66	1986	Sauve-toi, Lola	Charles Schneider	0
67	1986	Twist Again in Moscow	Marshal Bassounov	61
68	1991	L'Opération Corned Beef	Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale	62
69	1991	Triplex	M. Challes	57
70	1991	Robinson and Company	Robinson (Voice)	54
71	1991	Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles	Louis	30
72	1992	Leopard Ties	Bergaux Latour	0
73	1992	Les Danseurs du Mozambique	Theodore	0
74	1992	My Wife's Girlfriends	Gilbert Thonon	40
75	1993	George et Margaret	Malcolm Smith	0
76	1995	La Veuve de l'architecte	Jeannot	0
77	1996	North Star	Colonel Henry Johnson	48
78	1996	My Man	2nd client	58
79	1998	The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time	Maurice	60
80	2000	Actors	Jacques François	58
81	2000	The King Is Dancing	Cambefort	66
82	2001	Fifi Martingale	Ambassador	0
83	2003	Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres	Self	0
84	2004	Eros Therapy	M. de la Touche	42

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	La Brigade des maléfices	L'inspecteur principal	55
2	1981	Pause-café	M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne	70
3	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
4	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
5	1988	Palace	Félix, le maître d'hôtel	67
6	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
7	1992	Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo	(Voice)	70

Jacques François

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