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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Known For
Acting
1979
asder Oberst
1982
asFred Great
1984
asColonel Catelas
1973
asPascal
1978
asLe préfet
1966
asRakitine
1982
asColonel
1978
asMr. Henri
1991
asLe Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1981
asDiafoirus
1949
asJacques Barredout
1982
asDocteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
1955
asRodolphe Chartier
2000
asJacques François
1996
as2nd client
1995
asJeannot
1982
asJacques Loriol
1986
asMarshal Bassounov
1978
asDeputy Bouillaud-Crevel
1979
asAurélien Brucheloir
1983
asLe docteur Patterson
1942
as
1943
asVidalenc
1976
asMr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
1946
asCount of Artois (uncredited)
1975
asPolice Prefect
1948
asMick
1951
asThe doctor
1952
asHorace (segment "Mouche")
1961
asPhotin
1953
asJacques Farnod
1972
asLestienne
1970
asBenjamin Constant
1981
asThe stylish traveler
1985
asNecker
1951
asAlain Beauchamp
2004
asM. de la Touche
1982
asMr. Crispin-Vautier
1976
asCharles
1979
asM. Delorme
2001
asAmbassador
1972
asPlantier
1984
asNotaire
1998
asMaurice
1955
asVictor de Colville
2000
asCambefort
1953
asGérard Morrison
1963
asGiorgio
1967
asSherlock Holmes
1973
asDelfan
2003
asSelf
1972
asEdmond
1954
asDuke de Saint-Simon
1992
asBergaux Latour
1973
asGeneral
1953
asAramis
1953
asMichel Leclair
1983
asJacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1991
asLouis
1992
asTheodore
1973
asSerge de la Prévoteraie
1978
asMichel
1950
asAndrea Mola
1954
asFranz Liszt
1981
asJack Worthing
1977
asLefevre
1986
asCharles Schneider
1975
asMaurice Gabolde
1951
asPierre, French Steward
1951
asLe valet
1974
asCaptain
1991
asRobinson (Voice)
1979
asDaniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979
asDon Thomas
1996
asColonel Henry Johnson
1974
asHervé Sainfous de Montaubert
1992
asGilbert Thonon
1981
asJacques Loriol
1970
asElstir, l'Éditeur
1993
asMalcolm Smith
1980
asVictor Rhodes
1981
asLe vieux
1991
asM. Challes
1984
asLe Docteur Gaby Choulet
asM. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
asFélix, le maître d'hôtel
asL'inspecteur principal
asSelf
asSelf
as(Voice)
asSelf
Production
Crew
Directing
1980
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