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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 16, 1920
Died
November 25, 2003
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Jacques Francois
- Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François
Jacques François
0.4 Popularity
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
4.2
M. de la Touche
Eros Therapy
2004
0.0
Self
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
0.0
Ambassador
Fifi Martingale
2001
6.6
Cambefort
The King Is Dancing
2000
5.8
Jacques François
Actors
2000
6.0
Maurice
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
5.8
2nd client
My Man
1996
4.8
Colonel Henry Johnson
North Star
1996
0.0
Jeannot
La Veuve de l'architecte
1995
0.0
Malcolm Smith
George et Margaret
1993
Credits
Eros Therapy
as M. de la Touche
2004
4.2
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
as Self
2003
0.0
Fifi Martingale
as Ambassador
2001
0.0
The King Is Dancing
as Cambefort
2000
6.6
Actors
as Jacques François
2000
5.8
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice
1998
6.0
My Man
as 2nd client
1996
5.8
North Star
as Colonel Henry Johnson
1996
4.8
La Veuve de l'architecte
as Jeannot
1995
0.0
George et Margaret
as Malcolm Smith
1993
0.0
My Wife's Girlfriends
as Gilbert Thonon
1992
4.0
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Theodore
1992
0.0
Leopard Ties
as Bergaux Latour
1992
0.0
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
as (Voice)
1992
7.0
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
as Louis
1991
3.0
Robinson and Company
as Robinson (Voice)
1991
5.4
Triplex
as M. Challes
1991
5.7
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1991
6.2
Stars 90
as Self
1990
6.2
Palace
as Félix, le maître d'hôtel
1988
6.7
Sacrée soirée
as Self
1987
6.5
Twist Again in Moscow
as Marshal Bassounov
1986
6.1
🎬
Sauve-toi, Lola
as Charles Schneider
1986
0.0
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
as Necker
1985
6.0
Le Tueur triste
as Notaire
1984
0.0
Led by the Nose
as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
1984
5.5
The Blood of Others
as Colonel Catelas
1984
5.0
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1983
6.9
The African
as Le docteur Patterson
1983
6.3
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Colonel
1982
6.0
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
1982
7.3
Bankers Also Have Souls
as Jacques Loriol
1982
4.7
Tête à claques
as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
1982
4.9
A Thousand Billion Dollars
as Fred Great
1982
6.9
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Shut Up When You Speak!
as Diafoirus
1981
6.0
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
as Le vieux
1981
2.0
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
as Jacques Loriol
1981
6.7
The Ones That Got Away
as The stylish traveler
1981
4.6
Pause-café
as M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
1981
7.0
Il est important d'être aimé
as Jack Worthing
1981
0.0
L'Amant complaisant
as Victor Rhodes
1980
0.0
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979
6.3
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
as Aurélien Brucheloir
1979
5.2
Seven Days in January
as Don Thomas
1979
6.0
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as der Oberst
1979
6.1
Heart to Heart
as M. Delorme
1979
5.8
Too Shy to Try
as Mr. Henri
1978
6.4
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
1978
2.5
The Discord
as Le préfet
1978
6.4
Le Greluchon délicat
as Michel
1978
0.0
Sorcerer
as Lefevre
1977
7.4
The Toy
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
1976
6.9
Chi dice donna, dice donna
as Charles
1976
5.7
Cat and Mouse
as Police Prefect
1975
5.7
Special Section
as Maurice Gabolde
1975
7.1
Chinese In Paris
as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
1974
6.3
Antoine and Sebastian
as Captain
1974
0.0
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as General
1973
7.4
The Day of the Jackal
as Pascal
1973
7.5
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
as Delfan
1973
6.3
December
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
1973
10.0
The Assassination
as Lestienne
1972
6.7
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
as Plantier
1972
6.5
Églantine
as Edmond
1972
6.0
La Brigade des maléfices
as L'inspecteur principal
1971
5.5
Earth Light
as Elstir, l'Éditeur
1970
6.8
🎬
Un jeu d'enfer
as Benjamin Constant
1970
0.0
🎬
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1967
0.0
Un mois à la campagne
as Rakitine
1966
0.0
Caterina
as Giorgio
1963
10.0
La Mort de Pompée
as Photin
1961
0.0
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Rodolphe Chartier
1955
6.1
To Paris with Love
as Victor de Colville
1955
5.2
At the Order of the Czar
as Franz Liszt
1954
0.0
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Duke de Saint-Simon
1954
6.8
The Three Musketeers
as Aramis
1953
6.3
The Father of the Girl
as Michel Leclair
1953
4.0
My Childish Father
as Gérard Morrison
1953
0.0
South of Algiers
as Jacques Farnod
1953
6.0
Three Women
as Horace (segment "Mouche")
1952
0.0
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
as Le valet
1951
5.6
Encore
as Pierre, French Steward
1951
6.2
Edward and Caroline
as Alain Beauchamp
1951
6.4
Skipper Next to God
as The doctor
1951
0.0
🎬
Pact with the Devil
as Andrea Mola
1950
0.0
The Barkleys of Broadway
as Jacques Barredout
1949
6.8
Just a Big Simple Girl
as Mick
1948
0.0
Queen's Necklace
as Count of Artois (uncredited)
1946
1.0
Captain Fracasse
as Vidalenc
1943
6.3
Business Is Business
1942
6.5