Jacques François
Acting · Born 1920-05-16 · age 83 at death · 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. 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.
Titles
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
The Day of the Jackal
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Sorcerer
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Gramps Is in the Resistance
The Discord
The Toy
L'Opération Corned Beef
Actors
My Best Pals
Too Shy to Try
Twist Again in Moscow
The African
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Special Section
The Barkleys of Broadway
The King Is Dancing
North Star
The Assassination
My Man
The Three Musketeers
The Grand Manoeuvre
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Chinese In Paris
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Edward and Caroline
Cat and Mouse
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Bankers Also Have Souls
Earth Light
Eros Therapy
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Until September
Shut Up When You Speak!
Encore
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
The Blood of Others
Tête à claques
Heart to Heart
The Ones That Got Away
Captain Fracasse
Robinson and Company
To Paris with Love
Palace
My Wife's Girlfriends
Pause-café
Seven Days in January
Led by the Nose
Business Is Business
South of Algiers
Triplex
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Églantine
Chi dice donna, dice donna
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