Jacques François
Acting
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.
Known For
The Day of the Jackal
Sorcerer
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
My Best Pals
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Actors
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
The Toy
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The Discord
L'Opération Corned Beef
Twist Again in Moscow
The African
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Too Shy to Try
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
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