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.
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Known for
Stars 90
Self
The Day of the Jackal
Pascal
Sorcerer
Lefevre
The Assassination
Lestienne
The Toy
Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
Palace
Félix, le maître d'hôtel
Robinson and Company
Robinson (Voice)
Fifi Martingale
Ambassador
Pause-café
M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
Actors
Jacques François
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
General
Triplex
M. Challes
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Le colonel
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Le colonel de gendarmerie
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Maurice
My Best Pals
M. Thuiliet
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
My Man
2nd client
The Discord
Le préfet
L'Opération Corned Beef
Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
Bankers Also Have Souls
Jacques Loriol
The Three Musketeers
Aramis
La Brigade des maléfices
L'inspecteur principal
Twist Again in Moscow
Marshal Bassounov
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Plantier
Cat and Mouse
Police Prefect
North Star
Colonel Henry Johnson
The Grand Manoeuvre
Rodolphe Chartier
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Duke de Saint-Simon
The Blood of Others
Colonel Catelas
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
The Barkleys of Broadway
Jacques Barredout
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
(Voice)
Chinese In Paris
Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
Eros Therapy
M. de la Touche
The King Is Dancing
Cambefort
To Paris with Love
Victor de Colville
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Aurélien Brucheloir
Special Section
Maurice Gabolde
Captain Fracasse
Vidalenc
Until September
M Mauriac
The African
Le docteur Patterson
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Charles
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Fred Great
Shut Up When You Speak!
Diafoirus
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Necker
Earth Light
Elstir, l'Éditeur
Edward and Caroline
Alain Beauchamp
Encore
Pierre, French Steward
Queen's Necklace
Count of Artois (uncredited)
Tête à claques
Mr. Crispin-Vautier
South of Algiers
Jacques Farnod
Le Tueur triste
Notaire
Three Women
Horace (segment "Mouche")
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Self
Too Shy to Try
Mr. Henri
December
Serge de la Prévoteraie
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
Antoine and Sebastian
Captain
Seven Days in January
Don Thomas
Heart to Heart
M. Delorme
Led by the Nose
Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
Skipper Next to God
The doctor
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Louis
My Childish Father
Gérard Morrison
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Le vieux
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Le valet
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Theodore
Pact with the Devil
Andrea Mola
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Self (archive footage)
Leopard Ties
Bergaux Latour
Sauve-toi, Lola
Charles Schneider
Business Is Business
The Father of the Girl
Michel Leclair
The Ones That Got Away
The stylish traveler
La Veuve de l'architecte
Jeannot
Il est important d'être aimé
Jack Worthing
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Jacques Loriol
Des cadavres à la pelle
Le Comte Emile
Un jeu d'enfer
Benjamin Constant
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Delfan
L'Amant complaisant
Victor Rhodes
Just a Big Simple Girl
Mick
Églantine
Edmond
My Wife's Girlfriends
Gilbert Thonon
Caterina
Giorgio
George et Margaret
Malcolm Smith
Un mois à la campagne
Rakitine
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
La Mort de Pompée
Photin
Le Greluchon délicat
Michel
At the Order of the Czar
Franz Liszt
Champs-Elysées
Self
Sacrée Soirée
Self