Jacques François
Born May 16, 1920 (Age: 105)
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Paris, France
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. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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Filmography
The King Is Dancing
2000
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as Cambefort
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Age: 80
Actors
2000
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as Jacques François
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Age: 79
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
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as Maurice
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Age: 77
Leopard Ties
1992
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as Bergaux Latour
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Age: 71
Des cadavres à la pelle
1991
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as Le Comte Emile
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Age: 71
Until September
1984
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as M Mauriac
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Age: 64
The Blood of Others
1984
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as Colonel Catelas
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Age: 64
Sorcerer
1977
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as Lefevre
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Age: 57
The Day of the Jackal
1973
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as Pascal
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Age: 53
No Image
Un jeu d'enfer
1970
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as Benjamin Constant
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Age: 50
Caterina
1963
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as Giorgio
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Age: 43
La Mort de Pompée
1961
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as Photin
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Age: 40
Business Is Business
1942
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as
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Age: 22