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Jacques François

Acting Born May 16, 1920 Paris, France 24 credits

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.

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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Known for

Champs-Elysées

as Self
Film

The Day of the Jackal

as Pascal

Prophet Joseph

as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert

Full filmography

  • Champs-Elysées (1982) as Self
  • Sacrée soirée (1987) as Self
  • Stars 90 (1990) as Self
  • The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Pascal
  • Sorcerer (1977) as Lefevre
  • Palace (1988) as Félix, le maître d'hôtel
  • Pause-café (1981) as M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
  • The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973) as General
  • The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998) as Maurice
  • The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979) as Le colonel de gendarmerie
  • Actors (2000) as Jacques François
  • The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982) as Le colonel
  • The Toy (1976) as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
  • Bankers Also Have Souls (1982) as Jacques Loriol
  • La Brigade des maléfices (1971) as L'inspecteur principal
  • The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) as Jacques Barredout
  • Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
  • My Man (1996) as 2nd client
  • December (1973) as Serge de la Prévoteraie
  • L'Opération Corned Beef (1991) as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
  • The Assassination (1972) as Lestienne
  • Chinese In Paris (1974) as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953) as Duke de Saint-Simon
  • Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983) as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant