Jacques François
Actor
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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As Director
Filmography
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier 1982
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice 1998
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as General 1973
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Le colonel de gendarmerie 1979
The Day of the Jackal
as Pascal 1973
Sorcerer
as Lefevre 1977
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Le colonel 1982
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant 1983
The Discord
as Le préfet 1978
The Toy
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper 1976
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale 1991
My Best Pals
as M. Thuiliet 1989
Actors
as Jacques François 2000
Too Shy to Try
as Mr. Henri 1978
Twist Again in Moscow
as Marshal Bassounov 1986
The African
as Le docteur Patterson 1983
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Fred Great 1982