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
all 87
Movies 80
TV Shows 7
self 3
Voice 1
Director 1
Eros Therapy (2004)
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres (2003)
Fifi Martingale (2001)
The King Is Dancing (2000)
Actors (2000)
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)
My Man (1996)
North Star (1996)
La Veuve de l'architecte (1995)
George et Margaret (1993)
My Wife's Girlfriends (1992)
Les Danseurs du Mozambique (1992)
Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo (1992)
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles (1991)
Robinson and Company (1991)
Triplex (1991)
L'Opération Corned Beef (1991)
Stars 90 (1990)
Palace (1988)
Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
Sauve-toi, Lola (1986)
Liberté, égalité, choucroute (1985)
Le Tueur triste (1984)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
The African (1983)
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)
Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)
Tête à claques (1982)
A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Shut Up When You Speak! (1981)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça (1981)
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They (1981)
The Ones That Got Away (1981)
Pause-café (1981)
Il est important d'être aimé (1981)
L'Amant complaisant (1980)
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses (1979)
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs (1979)
Seven Days in January (1979)
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
Heart to Heart (1979)
Too Shy to Try (1978)
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence (1978)
The Discord (1978)
Le Greluchon délicat (1978)
Sorcerer (1977)
The Toy (1976)
Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976)
Cat and Mouse (1975)
Special Section (1975)
Chinese In Paris (1974)
Antoine and Sebastian (1974)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)
December (1973)
The Assassination (1972)
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful (1972)
Pot-Bouille (1972)
La Brigade des maléfices (1971)
Earth Light (1970)
Un jeu d'enfer (1970)
Un mois à la campagne (1966)
Caterina (1963)
La Mort de Pompée (1961)
The Grand Manoeuvre (1955)
To Paris with Love (1955)
At the Order of the Czar (1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
The Three Musketeers (1953)
The Father of the Girl (1953)
My Childish Father (1953)
South of Algiers (1953)
Three Women (1952)
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny (1951)
Encore (1951)
Edward and Caroline (1951)
Skipper Next to God (1951)
Pact with the Devil (1950)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Just a Big Simple Girl (1948)
Queen's Necklace (1946)
Captain Fracasse (1943)
Business Is Business (1942)
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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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