Jacques François
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.
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. 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
The Day of the Jackal1973 · Pascal3.8ActuallyLike
Sorcerer1977 · Lefevre3.7ActuallyLike
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob1973 · General3.7ActuallyLike
Santa Claus Is a Stinker1982 · Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier3.7ActuallyLike
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time1998 · Maurice3.0ActuallyLike
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes1982 · Le colonel3.0ActuallyLike
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space1979 · Le colonel de gendarmerie3.0ActuallyLike
The Toy1976 · Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper3.5ActuallyLike pages
Cast credits
The Day of the Jackal1973 · Pascal3.8ActuallyLikeSorcerer1977 · Lefevre3.7ActuallyLikeThe Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob1973 · General3.7ActuallyLikeSanta Claus Is a Stinker1982 · Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier3.7ActuallyLikeThe Visitors II: The Corridors of Time1998 · Maurice3.0ActuallyLikeThe Gendarme and the Gendarmettes1982 · Le colonel3.0ActuallyLikeThe Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space1979 · Le colonel de gendarmerie3.0ActuallyLikeThe Toy1976 · Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper3.5
Gramps Is in the Resistance1983 · Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant3.4
The Discord1978 · Le préfet3.2
L'Opération Corned Beef1991 · Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale3.1
A Thousand Billion Dollars1982 · Fred Great3.4
Actors2000 · Jacques François2.9
My Best Pals1989 · M. Thuiliet3.1
Too Shy to Try1978 · Mr. Henri3.2
Special Section1975 · Maurice Gabolde3.5
The Barkleys of Broadway1949 · Jacques Barredout3.5
The African1983 · Le docteur Patterson3.1