Jacques François
Actor
- Born
- May 16, 1920 · Paris, France
- Died
- November 25, 2003 (age 83)
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.
During World War II, he served as a captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre.
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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
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
February 11, 1998
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
October 17, 1973
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
August 25, 1982
The Day of the Jackal
May 16, 1973
Sorcerer
June 24, 1977
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
January 31, 1979
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
October 3, 1982
Gramps Is in the Resistance
October 26, 1983
The Discord
March 16, 1978
The Toy
December 8, 1976
L'Opération Corned Beef
February 6, 1991
Actors
April 5, 2000
Acting91
- 2013Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self (archive footage)
- 2004Eros Therapy as M. de la Touche
- 2003Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres as Self
- 2001Fifi Martingale as Ambassador
- 2000The King Is Dancing as Cambefort
- 2000Actors as Jacques François
- 1998The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time as Maurice
- 1996My Man as 2nd client
- 1996North Star as Colonel Henry Johnson
- 1995