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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Acting History
2013
Louis 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
1995La Veuve de l'architecte as Jeannot
1993George et Margaret as Malcolm Smith
1992My Wife's Girlfriends as Gilbert Thonon
1992Les Danseurs du Mozambique as Theodore
1992Leopard Ties as Bergaux Latour
1992Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo as (Voice)
1991Des cadavres à la pelle as Le Comte Emile
1991Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles as Louis
1991Robinson and Company as Robinson (Voice)
1991Triplex as M. Challes
1991L'Opération Corned Beef as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1990Stars 90 as Self
1989My Best Pals as M. Thuiliet
1988Palace as Félix, le maître d'hôtel
1987Sacrée Soirée as Self
1986Twist Again in Moscow as Marshal Bassounov
1986Sauve-toi, Lola as Charles Schneider
1985Liberté, égalité, choucroute as Necker
1984Le Tueur triste as Notaire
1984Led by the Nose as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
1984The Blood of Others as Colonel Catelas
1983Gramps Is in the Resistance as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1983The African as Le docteur Patterson
1982The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes as Le colonel
1982Santa Claus Is a Stinker as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
1982Bankers Also Have Souls as Jacques Loriol
1982Tête à claques as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
1982A Thousand Billion Dollars as Fred Great
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1981Shut Up When You Speak! as Diafoirus
1981San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça as Le vieux
1981We're Not Angels... Neither Are They as Jacques Loriol
1981The Ones That Got Away as The stylish traveler
1981Pause-café as M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
1981Il est important d'être aimé as Jack Worthing
1980L'Amant complaisant as Victor Rhodes
1979Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs as Aurélien Brucheloir
1979Seven Days in January as Don Thomas
1979The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Le colonel de gendarmerie
1979Heart to Heart as M. Delorme
1978Too Shy to Try as Mr. Henri
1978One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
1978The Discord as Le préfet
1978Le Greluchon délicat as Michel
1977Sorcerer as Lefevre
1976The Toy as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
1976Chi dice donna, dice donna as Charles
1975Cat and Mouse as Police Prefect
1975Special Section as Maurice Gabolde
1974Chinese In Paris as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
1974Antoine and Sebastian as Captain
1973The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as General
1973The Day of the Jackal as Pascal
1973Moi y'en a vouloir des sous as Delfan
1973December as Serge de la Prévoteraie
1972The Assassination as Lestienne
1972Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful as Plantier
1972Églantine as Edmond
1971La Brigade des maléfices as L'inspecteur principal
1970Earth Light as Elstir, l'Éditeur
1970Un jeu d'enfer as Benjamin Constant
1967An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
1966Un mois à la campagne as Rakitine
1963Caterina as Giorgio
1961La Mort de Pompée as Photin
1955The Grand Manoeuvre as Rodolphe Chartier
1955To Paris with Love as Victor de Colville
1954At the Order of the Czar as Franz Liszt
1954Royal Affairs in Versailles as Duke de Saint-Simon
1953The Three Musketeers as Aramis
1953The Father of the Girl as Michel Leclair
1953My Childish Father as Gérard Morrison
1953South of Algiers as Jacques Farnod
1952Three Women as Horace (segment "Mouche")
1951Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny as Le valet
1951Encore as Pierre, French Steward
1951Edward and Caroline as Alain Beauchamp
1951Skipper Next to God as The doctor
1950Pact with the Devil as Andrea Mola
1949The Barkleys of Broadway as Jacques Barredout
1948Just a Big Simple Girl as Mick
1946Queen's Necklace as Count of Artois (uncredited)
1943Captain Fracasse as Vidalenc
1942Business Is Business