
Jacques François
Acting
🎂 1920-05-16
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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Cast credits(91)

Self
1982

Self
1987

Self
1990

Félix, le maître d'hôtel
1988

M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
1981

(Voice)
1992

Pascal
1973

L'inspecteur principal
1971

Lefevre
1977

General
1973

Maurice
1998

Colonel
1982

Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
1982

der Oberst
1979

Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
1983

Colonel Catelas
1984

Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
1976

Duke de Saint-Simon
1954

Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
1991

Le préfet
1978

2nd client
1996

Le docteur Patterson
1983

Jacques François
2000

Jacques Loriol
1982

Aurélien Brucheloir
1979

Colonel Henry Johnson
1996

Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
1979

Aramis
1953

Horace (segment "Mouche")
1952

Rodolphe Chartier
1955

Lestienne
1972

Police Prefect
1975

Jacques Barredout
1949

Marshal Bassounov
1986

Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
1974

Maurice Gabolde
1975

Fred Great
1982

Mr. Henri
1978

Cambefort
2000

Le valet
1951

Alain Beauchamp
1951

Diafoirus
1981

Serge de la Prévoteraie
1973

Vidalenc
1943

Count of Artois (uncredited)
1946
Charles Schneider
1986
Andrea Mola
1950

Victor de Colville
1955

Elstir, l'Éditeur
1970

Pierre, French Steward
1951

M. de la Touche
2004

Charles
1976

Jacques Farnod
1953

Captain
1974

The doctor
1951

Necker
1985

M. Delorme
1979

Robinson (Voice)
1991

Michel Leclair
1953

The stylish traveler
1981

Don Thomas
1979

Mick
1948

Mr. Crispin-Vautier
1982

Plantier
1972

Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
1978
Benjamin Constant
1970

Le vieux
1981

Self
2003

Bergaux Latour
1992

Louis
1991

Edmond
1972

Jack Worthing
1981

Notaire
1984
Sherlock Holmes
1967

Malcolm Smith
1993

Rakitine
1966

Gilbert Thonon
1992

Michel
1978

M. Challes
1991

Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
1984

Gérard Morrison
1953

Giorgio
1963

Jeannot
1995

Delfan
1973

Theodore
1992

1942

Victor Rhodes
1980

Franz Liszt
1954

Photin
1961

Jacques Loriol
1981

Ambassador
2001