Jacques François
Acting
Born May 16, 1920 · Paris, France
Died November 25, 2003
Also known as Jacques Francois · Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François
Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Croix de guerre 1939–1945
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
Filmography15 titles
The Day of the Jackal
Sorcerer
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Special Section
A Thousand Billion Dollars
The Toy
Earth Light
The Barkleys of Broadway
Operation Corned Beef
The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials
The Grand Manoeuvre
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
My Man
Until September
North Star