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