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Jacques François

Jacques François

Birthday: 1920-05-16 | Place of Birth: Paris, France

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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2000
The King Is Dancing

as    Cambefort

1996
My Man

as    2e client

1996
North Star

as    Colonel Henry Johnson

1991
L'Opération Corned Beef

as    Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale

1984
Le Tueur triste

as    Notaire

1983
The African

as    Le docteur Patterson

1982
1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker

as    Pharmacist

1978
The Discord

as    Le préfet

1976
The Toy

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

1955
The Grand Manoeuvre

as    Rodolphe Chartier

1953
South of Algiers

as    Jacques Farnod

1951
Edward and Caroline

as    Alain Beauchamp

1949
The Barkleys of Broadway

as    Jacques Barredout