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Jacques François

Born 1920-05-16

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. 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 1973 · 7.8 Sorcerer 1977 · 7.7 The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob 1973 · 7.4 Santa Claus Is a Stinker 1982 · 7.5 The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials 1979 · 6.3 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes 1982 · 6.2 The Toy 1976 · 7.4 La zizanie 1978 · 6.4 The Barkleys of Broadway 1949 · 7.0 Operation Corned Beef 1991 · 6.1 Mes meilleurs copains 1989 · 6.7 The Grand Maneuver 1955 · 6.7 Mille milliards de dollars 1982 · 7.0 I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs 1979 · 5.0