Jacques François

Born: 1920-05-16

Birthplace: Paris, France

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

Sorcerer
The Day of the Jackal
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
My Man
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
A Thousand Billion Dollars
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Three Musketeers

Top Movie Credits

Sorcerer Lefevre
The Day of the Jackal Pascal
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob General
My Man 2nd client
Santa Claus Is a Stinker Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
A Thousand Billion Dollars Fred Great
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time Maurice
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes Le colonel
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space Le colonel de gendarmerie
The Three Musketeers Aramis