Jacques François
AKA: Jacques Francois
Birthday: 1920-05-16
Died: 2003-11-25
Birthplace: 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.
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Filmography
Character: Colonel Catelas
Character: Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
Character: Jacques Barredout
Character: Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
Character: Rodolphe Chartier
Character: Jacques Loriol
Character: Maréchal Bassounov
Character: Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
Character: Aurélien Brucheloir
Character: Le docteur Patterson
Character: Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
Character: Le comte d'Artois (uncredited)
Character: le Préfet de police
Character: Horace (segment "Mouche")
Character: Jacques Farnod
Character: Benjamin Constant
Character: The stylish traveler
Character: Alain Beauchamp
Character: M. de la Touche
Character: Mr. Crispin-Vautier
Character: Victor de Colville
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Duc de Saint-Simon
Character: Bergaux Latour
Character: Michel Leclair
Character: Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
Character: Serge de la Prévoteraie
Character: Charles Schneider
Character: Maurice Gabolde
Character: Pierre, French Steward
Character: Robinson (Voice)
Character: Daniel Granier, pharmacien, ami de Chritine
Character: Colonel Henry Johnson
Character: Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
Character: Gilbert Thonon
Character: Jacques Loriol
Character: Elstir, l'Éditeur