Person Details

Birthday: 1920-05-16 19:23:32

Death: 2003-11-25 19:23:32

Aliases: Jacques Francois

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 28

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Stars 90
Average
6

Stars 90

(1990) Self
Sorcerer
Average
7

Sorcerer

(1977) Lefevre
The Day of the Jackal
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7

The Day of the Jackal

(1973) Pascal
Pause-café
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7

Pause-café

(1981) M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
The Three Musketeers
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6

The Three Musketeers

(1953) Aramis
La Brigade des maléfices
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6

La Brigade des maléfices

(1971) L'inspecteur principal
The King Is Dancing
Average
7

The King Is Dancing

(2000) Cambefort
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Average
7

A Thousand Billion Dollars

(1982) Fred Great

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2004 M. de la Touche
2003 N/A
2001 N/A
2000 Cambefort
Himself
1998 Gisèle's husband
1996 2e client
Colonel Henry Johnson
1995 Jeannot
1993 Malcolm Smith
1992 Gilbert Thonon
Theodore
(Voice)
1991 Louis
Robinson (Voice)
N/A
Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1990 Self
1988 Félix, le maître d'hôtel
1986 Maréchal Bassounov
Charles Schneider
1985 Necker
1984 Notaire
Colonel Catelas
1983 Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
Le docteur Patterson
1982 Colonel
Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
Jacques Loriol
Mr. Crispin-Vautier
Fred Great
Self
1981 Diafoirus
Le vieux
Jacques Loriol
The stylish traveler
M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
Jack Worthing
1980 N/A
1979 Daniel Granier, pharmacien, ami de Chritine
Aurélien Brucheloir
Don Thomas
der Oberst
M. Delorme
1978 Mr. Henri
Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
Le préfet
N/A
1977 Lefevre
1976 Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
Charles
1975 le Préfet de police
Maurice Gabolde
1974 Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
N/A
1973 General
Pascal
Delfan
Serge de la Prévoteraie
1972 Lestienne
Plantier
1971 L'inspecteur principal
1970 Elstir, l'Éditeur
Benjamin Constant
1966 Rakitine
1963 Giorgio
1961 N/A
1955 Rodolphe Chartier
Victor de Colville
1954 Franz Liszt
Duc de Saint-Simon
1953 Aramis
Michel Leclair
Jacques Farnod
1952 Horace (segment "Mouche")
1951 Le valet
Pierre, French Steward
Alain Beauchamp
The doctor
1950 Andrea Mola
1949 Jacques Barredout
1948 Mick
1946 N/A
1943 Vidalenc
1942 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1980 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

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