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