Jacques François
Acting
Born May 16, 1920 · Paris, France
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.
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Acting (88)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013
Eros Therapy
2004
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
Fifi Martingale
2001
The King Is Dancing
2000
Actors
2000
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
My Man
1996
North Star
1996
La Veuve de l'architecte
1995
George et Margaret
1993
My Wife's Girlfriends
1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992
Leopard Ties
1992
Des cadavres à la pelle
1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1991
Robinson and Company
1991
Triplex
1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
1991
My Best Pals
1989
Twist Again in Moscow
1986
Sauve-toi, Lola
1986
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1985
Le Tueur triste
1984
Led by the Nose
1984
Until September
1984
The Blood of Others
1984
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
The African
1983
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
1982
Tête à claques
1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
Shut Up When You Speak!
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1981
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
1981
The Ones That Got Away
1981
Il est important d'être aimé
1981
L'Amant complaisant
1980
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1979
Seven Days in January
1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
Heart to Heart
1979
Too Shy to Try
1978
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
1978
The Discord
1978
Le Greluchon délicat
1978
Sorcerer
1977
The Toy
1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
Cat and Mouse
1975
Special Section
1975
Chinese In Paris
1974
Antoine and Sebastian
1974
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
December
1973
The Assassination
1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972
Églantine
1972
Earth Light
1970
Un jeu d'enfer
1970
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
1967
Un mois à la campagne
1966
Caterina
1963
La Mort de Pompée
1961
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955
To Paris with Love
1955
At the Order of the Czar
1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
The Three Musketeers
1953
The Father of the Girl
1953
My Childish Father
1953
South of Algiers
1953
Three Women
1952
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
1951
Encore
1951
Edward and Caroline
1951
Skipper Next to God
1951
Pact with the Devil
1950
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949
Just a Big Simple Girl
1948
Queen's Necklace
1946
Captain Fracasse
1943
Business Is Business
1942