Jacques François
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
94
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
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Sacrée Soirée
The Day of the Jackal
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un mois à la campagne
Skipper Next to God
Special Section
Business Is Business
Queen's Necklace
Stars 90
My Man
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Bankers Also Have Souls
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Gramps Is in the Resistance
North Star
Sorcerer
The African
L'Opération Corned Beef
To Paris with Love
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Three Women
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Actors
Fifi Martingale
Twist Again in Moscow
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Assassination
The Discord
The Grand Manoeuvre
Robinson and Company
December
My Best Pals
Edward and Caroline
Palace
Chinese In Paris
Triplex
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
The Toy
The Blood of Others
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Too Shy to Try
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Three Musketeers
The King Is Dancing
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Earth Light
Heart to Heart
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Il est important d'être aimé
Shut Up When You Speak!
Tête à claques
Captain Fracasse
La Veuve de l'architecte
Seven Days in January
Pact with the Devil
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Led by the Nose
South of Algiers
Des cadavres à la pelle
My Wife's Girlfriends
Leopard Ties
The Ones That Got Away
A Thousand Billion Dollars
La Brigade des maléfices
Pause-café
Just a Big Simple Girl
Cat and Mouse
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Le Tueur triste
Encore
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
At the Order of the Czar
Un jeu d'enfer
Eros Therapy
Antoine and Sebastian
La Mort de Pompée
Sauve-toi, Lola
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
My Childish Father
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Églantine
Caterina
L'Amant complaisant
Le Greluchon délicat
The Father of the Girl
George et Margaret
