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.
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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2004 | Eros thérapie as M. de la Touche |
2003 | Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres as Self |
2001 | Fifi Martingale as Ambassador |
2000 | Le roi danse as Cambefort |
2000 | Les acteurs as Jacques François |
1998 | Ziyaretçiler 2 as Maurice |
1996 | Mon homme as 2nd client |
1996 | North Star as Colonel Henry Johnson |
1995 | La Veuve de l'architecte as Jeannot |
1993 | George et Margaret as Malcolm Smith |
1992 | Les Amies de ma femme as Gilbert Thonon |
1992 | Les Danseurs du Mozambique as Theodore |
1992 | Les cravates léopards as Bergaux Latour |
1991 | Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles as Louis |
1991 | Robinson & compagnie as Robinson (Voice) |
1991 | Triplex as M. Challes |
1991 | L'Opération Corned Beef as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale |
1986 | Twist again à Moscou as Marshal Bassounov |
1986 | Sauve-toi, Lola as Charles Schneider |
1985 | Liberté, égalité, choucroute as Necker |
1984 | Le Tueur triste as Notaire |
1984 | La Tête dans le sac as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet |
1984 | The Blood of Others as Colonel Catelas |
1983 | Papy fait de la résistance as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant |
1983 | L'africain as Le docteur Patterson |
1982 | Süper Jandarma ve Melekleri as Colonel |
1982 | Le père Noël est une ordure as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier |
1982 | Le Cadeau as Jacques Loriol |
1982 | Tête à claques as Mr. Crispin-Vautier |
1982 | Mille milliards de dollars as Fred Great |
1981 | Tais-toi quand tu parles as Diafoirus |
1981 | San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça as Le vieux |
1981 | On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus as Jacques Loriol |
1981 | Celles qu'on n'a pas eues as The stylish traveler |
1981 | Il est important d'être aimé as Jack Worthing |
1980 | L'Amant complaisant as Victor Rhodes |
1979 | Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine |
1979 | Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette as Aurélien Brucheloir |
1979 | 7 días de enero as Don Thomas |
1979 | Süper Jandarma as der Oberst |
1979 | Confidences pour confidences as M. Delorme |
1978 | Je suis timide... mais je me soigne as Mr. Henri |
1978 | One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel |
1978 | Çılgın Hayat as Le préfet |
1978 | Le Greluchon délicat as Michel |
1977 | Dehşetin Bedeli as Lefevre |
1976 | Le Jouet as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper |
1976 | Chi dice donna, dice donna as Charles |
1975 | Le Chat et la Souris as Police Prefect |
1975 | Section spéciale as Maurice Gabolde |
1974 | Les Chinois à Paris as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert |
1974 | Antoine et Sébastien as Captain |
1973 | Papaz Kaçtı as General |
1973 | Çakalın Günü as Pascal |
1973 | Moi y'en a vouloir des sous as Delfan |
1973 | Décembre as Serge de la Prévoteraie |
1972 | L'Attentat as Lestienne |
1972 | Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil as Plantier |
1972 | Églantine as Edmond |
1970 | Le Clair de terre as Elstir, l'Éditeur |
1970 | Un jeu d'enfer as Benjamin Constant |
1967 | Une aventure de Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes |
1966 | Un mois à la campagne as Rakitine |
1963 | Caterina as Giorgio |
1961 | La Mort de Pompée as Photin |
1955 | Les Grandes Manœuvres as Rodolphe Chartier |
1955 | To Paris with Love as Victor de Colville |
1954 | Par ordre du tsar as Franz Liszt |
1954 | Si Versailles m'était conté as Duke de Saint-Simon |
1953 | Les Trois Mousquetaires as Aramis |
1953 | Le père de Mademoiselle as Michel Leclair |
1953 | Mon gosse de père as Gérard Morrison |
1953 | South of Algiers as Jacques Farnod |
1952 | Trois femmes as Horace (segment "Mouche") |
1951 | Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité as Le valet |
1951 | Encore as Pierre, French Steward |
1951 | Édouard et Caroline as Alain Beauchamp |
1951 | Maître après Dieu as The doctor |
1950 | Patto col diavolo as Andrea Mola |
1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway as Jacques Barredout |
1948 | Une grande fille toute simple as Mick |
1946 | L'Affaire du collier de la reine as Count of Artois (uncredited) |
1943 | Le Capitaine Fracasse as Vidalenc |
1942 | Les affaires sont les affaires |
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