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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2013
Eros Therapy
Character:M. de la Touche
Release Date:25/08/2004
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character:Self
Release Date:03/01/2003
Fifi Martingale
Character:Ambassador
Release Date:01/09/2001
The King Is Dancing
Character:Cambefort
Release Date:06/12/2000
Actors
Character:Jacques François
Release Date:05/04/2000
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Character:Maurice
Release Date:11/02/1998
My Man
Character:2nd client
Release Date:31/01/1996
North Star
Character:Colonel Henry Johnson
Release Date:03/01/1996
La Veuve de l'architecte
Character:Jeannot
Release Date:19/05/1995
George et Margaret
Character:Malcolm Smith
Release Date:19/06/1993
My Wife's Girlfriends
Character:Gilbert Thonon
Release Date:04/11/1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Character:Theodore
Release Date:11/06/1992
Leopard Ties
Character:Bergaux Latour
Release Date:06/02/1992
Des cadavres à la pelle
Character:Le Comte Emile
Release Date:21/12/1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Character:Louis
Release Date:15/06/1991
Robinson and Company
Character:Robinson (Voice)
Release Date:24/05/1991
Triplex
Character:M. Challes
Release Date:17/04/1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
Character:Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
Release Date:06/02/1991
My Best Pals
Character:M. Thuiliet
Release Date:01/03/1989
Twist Again in Moscow
Character:Marshal Bassounov
Release Date:22/10/1986
Sauve-toi, Lola
Character:Charles Schneider
Release Date:03/09/1986
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Character:Necker
Release Date:30/04/1985
Le Tueur triste
Character:Notaire
Release Date:21/12/1984
Led by the Nose
Character:Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
Release Date:31/10/1984
Until September
Character:M Mauriac
Release Date:21/09/1984
The Blood of Others
Character:Colonel Catelas
Release Date:25/08/1984
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character:Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
Release Date:26/10/1983
The African
Character:Le docteur Patterson
Release Date:22/10/1983
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Character:Le colonel
Release Date:03/10/1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character:Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
Release Date:25/08/1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
Character:Jacques Loriol
Release Date:24/03/1982
Tête à claques
Character:Mr. Crispin-Vautier
Release Date:17/02/1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Character:Fred Great
Release Date:09/02/1982
Shut Up When You Speak!
Character:Diafoirus
Release Date:02/09/1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Character:Le vieux
Release Date:20/05/1981
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Character:Jacques Loriol
Release Date:01/04/1981
The Ones That Got Away
Character:The stylish traveler
Release Date:25/02/1981
Il est important d'être aimé
Character:Jack Worthing
Release Date:06/02/1981
L'Amant complaisant
Character:Victor Rhodes
Release Date:17/05/1980
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Character:Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
Release Date:18/04/1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Character:Aurélien Brucheloir
Release Date:04/04/1979
Seven Days in January
Character:Don Thomas
Release Date:28/03/1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Character:Le colonel de gendarmerie
Release Date:31/01/1979
Heart to Heart
Character:M. Delorme
Release Date:03/01/1979
Too Shy to Try
Character:Mr. Henri
Release Date:23/08/1978
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Character:Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
Release Date:25/04/1978
The Discord
Character:Le préfet
Release Date:16/03/1978
Le Greluchon délicat
Character:Michel
Release Date:04/03/1978
Sorcerer
Character:Lefevre
Release Date:24/06/1977
The Toy
Character:Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
Release Date:08/12/1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Character:Charles
Release Date:11/02/1976
Cat and Mouse
Character:Police Prefect
Release Date:03/09/1975
Special Section
Character:Maurice Gabolde
Release Date:23/04/1975
Chinese In Paris
Character:Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
Release Date:27/02/1974
Antoine and Sebastian
Character:Captain
Release Date:16/01/1974
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character:General
Release Date:17/10/1973
The Day of the Jackal
Character:Pascal
Release Date:16/05/1973
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Character:Delfan
Release Date:01/02/1973
December
Character:Serge de la Prévoteraie
Release Date:02/01/1973
The Assassination
Character:Lestienne
Release Date:04/10/1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Character:Plantier
Release Date:05/05/1972
Églantine
Character:Edmond
Release Date:25/02/1972
Earth Light
Character:Elstir, l'Éditeur
Release Date:18/11/1970
Un jeu d'enfer
Character:Benjamin Constant
Release Date:26/10/1970
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Sherlock Holmes
Release Date:25/12/1967
Un mois à la campagne
Character:Rakitine
Release Date:21/06/1966
Caterina
Character:Giorgio
Release Date:21/12/1963
La Mort de Pompée
Character:Photin
Release Date:07/02/1961
The Grand Manoeuvre
Character:Rodolphe Chartier
Release Date:26/10/1955
To Paris with Love
Character:Victor de Colville
Release Date:01/01/1955
At the Order of the Czar
Character:Franz Liszt
Release Date:18/06/1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character:Duke de Saint-Simon
Release Date:10/02/1954
The Three Musketeers
Character:Aramis
Release Date:07/10/1953
The Father of the Girl
Character:Michel Leclair
Release Date:16/07/1953
My Childish Father
Character:Gérard Morrison
Release Date:08/07/1953
South of Algiers
Character:Jacques Farnod
Release Date:17/03/1953
Three Women
Character:Horace (segment "Mouche")
Release Date:13/08/1952
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Character:Le valet
Release Date:14/09/1951
Encore
Character:Pierre, French Steward
Release Date:11/06/1951
Edward and Caroline
Character:Alain Beauchamp
Release Date:06/04/1951
Skipper Next to God
Character:The doctor
Release Date:02/03/1951
Pact with the Devil
Character:Andrea Mola
Release Date:11/01/1950
The Barkleys of Broadway
Character:Jacques Barredout
Release Date:04/05/1949
Just a Big Simple Girl
Character:Mick
Release Date:09/06/1948
Queen's Necklace
Character:Count of Artois (uncredited)
Release Date:14/09/1946
Captain Fracasse
Character:Vidalenc
Release Date:19/06/1943
Business Is Business
Character:
Release Date:10/09/1942
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