Jacques François
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
95
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-05-16
Day of death
2003-11-25 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
Until September
Bankers Also Have Souls
The Assassination
Three Women
Fifi Martingale
December
Robinson and Company
Stars 90
Actors
My Man
The Toy
Seven Days in January
The African
Triplex
Captain Fracasse
North Star
The Day of the Jackal
The Discord
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Leopard Ties
My Wife's Girlfriends
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Pact with the Devil
My Best Pals
Sorcerer
Palace
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
At the Order of the Czar
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Gramps Is in the Resistance
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
La Brigade des maléfices
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Pause-café
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
Chinese In Paris
L'Opération Corned Beef
Chi dice donna, dice donna
The Grand Manoeuvre
Twist Again in Moscow
Encore
Un jeu d'enfer
The Blood of Others
Royal Affairs in Versailles
The King Is Dancing
Just a Big Simple Girl
Eros Therapy
Too Shy to Try
Special Section
The Three Musketeers
The Barkleys of Broadway
Edward and Caroline
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Le Greluchon délicat
Cat and Mouse
To Paris with Love
South of Algiers
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
George et Margaret
Shut Up When You Speak!
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Earth Light
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Heart to Heart
Queen's Necklace
Antoine and Sebastian
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Business Is Business
Skipper Next to God
Led by the Nose
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Sauve-toi, Lola
Églantine
My Childish Father
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Le Tueur triste
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
The Ones That Got Away
Il est important d'être aimé
La Mort de Pompée
The Father of the Girl
Tête à claques
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Des cadavres à la pelle
La Veuve de l'architecte
Un mois à la campagne
Caterina
L'Amant complaisant
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
