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Jacques François
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. 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.
Known For
The Day of the Jackal
as Pascal
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as General
Sorcerer
as Lefevre
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
as Maurice
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as der Oberst
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Colonel
The Toy
as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
