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.
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Filmography
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Movies 92
TV Shows 7
self 4
Voice 1
Director 1
M. de la Touche
Eros Therapy (2004)
Movie
L'ambassadeur
Fifi Martingale (2001)
Movie
Cambefort
The King Is Dancing (2000)
Movie
Himself
Actors (2000)
Movie
Bergman
Recto/Verso (1999)
Movie
2nd Client
My Man (1996)
Movie
Colonel Henry Johnson
North Star (1996)
Movie
Malcolm Smith
George et Margaret (1993)
Movie
Gilbert Thonon
My Wife's Girlfriends (1992)
Movie
Bergaux Latour
Leopard Ties (1992)
Movie
Robinson
Robinson and Company (1991)
Movie
Le père de Nathalie
Triplex (1991)
Movie
Le général Masse
L'Opération Corned Beef (1991)
Movie
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Le directeur de la P.J.
L'Invité surprise (1989)
Movie
M. Thillet
My Best Pals (1989)
Movie
Félix, le maître d'hôtel
Palace (1988)
TV
Actor
La rusa (1987)
Movie
Maréchal Bassounov
Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
Movie
Charles Schneider
Sauve-toi, Lola (1986)
Movie
Notaire
Le Tueur triste (1984)
Movie
Doctor Choulet
Led by the Nose (1984)
Movie
Colonel Catelas
The Blood of Others (1984)
Movie
John, l'acheteur d'art
Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année (1984)
Movie
Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
Movie
4
Le docteur Patterson
The African (1983)
Movie
M. Poinsot, le pharmacien
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Movie
5.41
Jacques Loriol
Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)
Movie
Mr. Crispin-Vautier
Tête à claques (1982)
Movie
Fred Great
A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
Movie
Diafoirus
Shut Up When You Speak! (1981)
Movie
Jacques Loriol
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They (1981)
Movie
Le voyageur élégant
The Ones That Got Away (1981)
Movie
Le proviseur
Pause-café (1981)
TV
Jack Worthing
Il est important d'être aimé (1981)
Movie
Director
L'Amant complaisant (1980)
Movie
Daniel Granier, pharmacien, ami de Chritine
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses (1979)
Movie
Aurélien Brucheloir, le président d'Af4
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)
Movie
Don Thomas
Seven Days in January (1979)
Movie
Le colonel de gendarmerie
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
Movie
5.41
Delorme
Heart to Heart (1979)
Movie
Mr. Henri
Too Shy to Try (1978)
Movie
Le député Bouillaud-Crevel
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence (1978)
Movie
Le préfet
The Discord (1978)
Movie
4.38
Lefevre
Sorcerer (1977)
Movie
1
Blénac
The Toy (1976)
Movie
9.5
Charles (segment "Donne d'affari")
Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976)
Movie
Le préfet de police
Cat and Mouse (1975)
Movie
Maurice Gabolde
Special Section (1975)
Movie
Hervé Sainfons de Montaubert
Chinese In Paris (1974)
Movie
Le capitaine
Antoine and Sebastian (1974)
Movie
Serge de la Prévoteraie
December (1973)
Movie
Lestienne
The Assassination (1972)
Movie
Duveyrier
Pot-Bouille (1972)
TV
Edmond
Églantine (1972)
Movie
Le Commissaire Principal
La Brigade des maléfices (1971)
TV
Elstir, l'éditeur
Earth Light (1970)
Movie
Benjamin Constant
Un jeu d'enfer (1970)
Movie
Sherlock Holmes
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1967)
Movie
Un causeur dans le boudoir
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967)
Movie
Giorgio
Caterina (1963)
Movie
Rodolphe
The Grand Manoeuvre (1955)
Movie
6
Victor de Colville
To Paris with Love (1955)
Movie
Franz Liszt
At the Order of the Czar (1954)
Movie
Duc de Saint-Simon
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Movie
Michel Leclair
The Father of the Girl (1953)
Movie
Gérard Morrison
My Childish Father (1953)
Movie
Jacques Farnod
South of Algiers (1953)
Movie
Horace (segment 'Mouche')
Three Women (1952)
Movie
Pierre, French Steward
Encore (1951)
Movie
Alain Beauchamp
Edward and Caroline (1951)
Movie
Le docteur
Skipper Next to God (1951)
Movie
Andrea Mola
Pact with the Devil (1950)
Movie
Jacques Pierre Barredout
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Movie
6.73
Le comte d'Artois (uncredited)
Queen's Necklace (1946)
Movie
Vidalenc
Captain Fracasse (1943)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1920-05-16
Deathday2003-11-25 (83 years old)
Birth NameHenri Jacques Daniel Paul François
Birth PlaceParis, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJacques Francois
AwardsOfficer of the Legion of Honour, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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