Jacques François
Acting • Born 1920-05-16 – Died 2003-11-25
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.
Filmography
95 credits
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Movie • 1979
Le colonel de gendarmerie
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Movie • 1982
Fred Great
The Blood of Others
Movie • 1984
Colonel Catelas
The Day of the Jackal
Movie • 1973
Pascal
The Discord
Movie • 1978
Le préfet
Un mois à la campagne
Movie • 1966
Rakitine
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Movie • 1982
Le colonel
Too Shy to Try
Movie • 1978
Mr. Henri
L'Opération Corned Beef
Movie • 1991
Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
Shut Up When You Speak!
Movie • 1981
Diafoirus
The Barkleys of Broadway
Movie • 1949
Jacques Barredout
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Movie • 1982
Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
The Grand Manoeuvre
Movie • 1955
Rodolphe Chartier
Actors
Movie • 2000
Jacques François
My Man
Movie • 1996
2nd client
La Veuve de l'architecte
Movie • 1995
Jeannot
Bankers Also Have Souls
Movie • 1982
Jacques Loriol
Twist Again in Moscow
Movie • 1986
Marshal Bassounov
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Movie • 1978
Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Movie • 1979
Aurélien Brucheloir
The African
Movie • 1983
Le docteur Patterson
Business Is Business
Movie • 1942
Captain Fracasse
Movie • 1943
Vidalenc
The Toy
Movie • 1976
Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
Queen's Necklace
Movie • 1946
Count of Artois (uncredited)
Cat and Mouse
Movie • 1975
Police Prefect
Just a Big Simple Girl
Movie • 1948
Mick
Skipper Next to God
Movie • 1951
The doctor
Three Women
Movie • 1952
Horace (segment "Mouche")
La Mort de Pompée
Movie • 1961
Photin
South of Algiers
Movie • 1953
Jacques Farnod
The Assassination
Movie • 1972
Lestienne
Un jeu d'enfer
Movie • 1970
Benjamin Constant
The Ones That Got Away
Movie • 1981
The stylish traveler
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Movie • 1985
Necker
Edward and Caroline
Movie • 1951
Alain Beauchamp
Eros Therapy
Movie • 2004
M. de la Touche
Tête à claques
Movie • 1982
Mr. Crispin-Vautier
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Movie • 1976
Charles
Heart to Heart
Movie • 1979
M. Delorme
Fifi Martingale
Movie • 2001
Ambassador
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Movie • 1972
Plantier
Le Tueur triste
Movie • 1984
Notaire
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Movie • 1998
Maurice
To Paris with Love
Movie • 1955
Victor de Colville
The King Is Dancing
Movie • 2000
Cambefort
My Childish Father
Movie • 1953
Gérard Morrison
Caterina
Movie • 1963
Giorgio
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1967
Sherlock Holmes
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Movie • 1973
Delfan
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Movie • 2003
Self
Églantine
Movie • 1972
Edmond
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Movie • 1953
Duke de Saint-Simon
Leopard Ties
Movie • 1992
Bergaux Latour
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Movie • 1973
General
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1953
Aramis
The Father of the Girl
Movie • 1953
Michel Leclair
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Movie • 1983
Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Movie • 1991
Louis
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Movie • 1992
Theodore
December
Movie • 1973
Serge de la Prévoteraie
Le Greluchon délicat
Movie • 1978
Michel
Pact with the Devil
Movie • 1950
Andrea Mola
At the Order of the Czar
Movie • 1954
Franz Liszt
Il est important d'être aimé
Movie • 1981
Jack Worthing
Sorcerer
Movie • 1977
Lefevre
Sauve-toi, Lola
Movie • 1986
Charles Schneider
Special Section
Movie • 1975
Maurice Gabolde
Encore
Movie • 1951
Pierre, French Steward
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Movie • 1951
Le valet
Antoine and Sebastian
Movie • 1974
Captain
Robinson and Company
Movie • 1991
Robinson (Voice)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Movie • 1979
Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
Seven Days in January
Movie • 1979
Don Thomas
North Star
Movie • 1996
Colonel Henry Johnson
Chinese In Paris
Movie • 1974
Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
My Wife's Girlfriends
Movie • 1992
Gilbert Thonon
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Movie • 1981
Jacques Loriol
Earth Light
Movie • 1970
Elstir, l'Éditeur
George et Margaret
Movie • 1993
Malcolm Smith
L'Amant complaisant
Movie • 1980
Victor Rhodes
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Movie • 1981
Le vieux
Triplex
Movie • 1991
M. Challes
Led by the Nose
Movie • 1984
Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
Des cadavres à la pelle
Movie • 1991
Le Comte Emile
My Best Pals
Movie • 1989
M. Thuiliet
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Until September
Movie • 1984
M Mauriac
Pause-café
TV • 1981
M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
Palace
TV • 1988
Félix, le maître d'hôtel
La Brigade des maléfices
TV • 1971
L'inspecteur principal
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
TV • 1992
(Voice)
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self