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