Jacques François
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 Ophuls, 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.
Francois regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
During World War 2, he served as a Captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Fifi Martingale | ||
| 2000 | Les Acteurs | Himself | |
| 1996 | My Man | ||
| North Star | |||
| 1991 | Triplex | ||
| 1983 | Papy fait de la résistance | ||
| 1982 | Le Père Noël est une ordure | ||
| Le Cadeau | |||
| A Thousand Billion Dollars | |||
| 1979 | Seven Days in January | ||
| 1978 | La Zizanie | ||
| 1977 | Sorcerer | ||
| 1976 | The Toy | ||
| 1975 | Section spéciale | ||
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | ||
| 1972 | Plot | ||
| 1955 | The Grand Maneuver | ||
| To Paris with Love | |||
| 1953 | South of Algiers | ||
| 1952 | Three Women | ||
| 1951 | Encore | ||
| Edward and Caroline | |||
| 1950 | Pact with the Devil | ||
| 1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway | ||