Jacques François
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.
Born: May 16, 1920
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as M. de la Touche
as Ambassador
as Cambefort
as Jacques François
as Maurice
as 2nd client
as Colonel Henry Johnson
as Jeannot
as Malcolm Smith
as Gilbert Thonon
as Theodore
as Bergaux Latour
as (Voice)
as Le Comte Emile
as Robinson (Voice)
as M. Challes
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
as Self
as M. Thuiliet
as Félix, le maître d'hôtel
as Self
as Marshal Bassounov
as Charles Schneider
as Necker
as Notaire
as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
as Colonel Catelas
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
as Le docteur Patterson
as Colonel
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
as Jacques Loriol
as Mr. Crispin-Vautier
as Fred Great
as Self
as Diafoirus
as Le vieux
as Jacques Loriol
as The stylish traveler
as M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
as Jack Worthing
as Victor Rhodes
as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
as Aurélien Brucheloir
as Don Thomas
as der Oberst
as M. Delorme
as Mr. Henri
as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
as Le préfet
as Michel
as Lefevre
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
as Charles
as Police Prefect
as Maurice Gabolde
as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
as Captain
as General
as Pascal
as Delfan
as Serge de la Prévoteraie
as Lestienne
as Edmond
as L'inspecteur principal
as Elstir, l'Éditeur
as Benjamin Constant
as Rakitine
as Giorgio
as Photin
as Rodolphe Chartier
as Victor de Colville
as Franz Liszt
as Duke de Saint-Simon
as Aramis
as Michel Leclair
as Gérard Morrison
as Jacques Farnod
as Horace (segment "Mouche")
as Le valet
as Pierre, French Steward
as Alain Beauchamp
as The doctor
as Jacques Barredout
as Mick
as Count of Artois (uncredited)
as Vidalenc