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

The Day of the Jackal
Sorcerer
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Actors
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
L'Opération Corned Beef
A Thousand Billion Dollars

Top Movie Credits

The Day of the Jackal Pascal
Sorcerer Lefevre
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time Maurice
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob General
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space Le colonel de gendarmerie
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes Le colonel
Actors Jacques François
Santa Claus Is a Stinker Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
L'Opération Corned Beef Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
A Thousand Billion Dollars Fred Great