Jacques François
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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1920-05-16 · Paris, France
- Died
- 2003-11-25
Known for
- The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998) — Maurice
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) — General
- Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) — Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — Pascal
- Sorcerer (1977) — Lefevre
- The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979) — Le colonel de gendarmerie
- The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982) — Le colonel
- Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983) — Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
- The Discord (1978) — Le préfet
- The Toy (1976) — Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
- L'Opération Corned Beef (1991) — Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
- Actors (2000) — Jacques François
- My Best Pals (1989) — M. Thuiliet
- Too Shy to Try (1978) — Mr. Henri
- Twist Again in Moscow (1986) — Marshal Bassounov
- A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982) — Fred Great