Jacques François
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Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒak danjɛl pɔl fʁɑ̃swa]; 16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor.[1] During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions.
Biography
[edit]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.[2]
François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Les affaires sont les affaires | ||
| 1943 | Captain Fracasse | Vidalenc | |
| 1946 | The Queen's Necklace | Le comte d'Artois | Uncredited |
| 1948 | Une grande fille toute simple | Mick | |
| 1949 | The Barkleys of Broadway | Jacques Pierre Barredout | |
| 1950 | Pact with the Devil | Andrea Mola | |
| 1951 | Skipper Next to God | Le docteur | |
| Edward and Caroline | Alain Beauchamp | ||
| Encore | Pierre, French Steward | (segment "Winter Cruise") | |
| 1952 | Three Women | Horace | (segment "Mouche") |
| 1953 | South of Algiers | Jacques Farnod | |
| My Childish Father | Gérard Morrison | ||
| The Father of the Girl | Michel Leclair | ||
| The Three Musketeers | Aramis | ||
| 1954 | Royal Affairs in Versailles | Saint-Simon | Uncredited |
| At the Order of the Czar | Franz Liszt | ||
| 1955 | To Paris with Love | Victor de Colville | |
| The Grand Maneuver | Rodolphe | ||
| 1970 | Le Clair de Terre | Elstir, l'éditeur | |
| 1972 | Églantine | Edmond | |
| Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil | Plantier | ||
| Plot | Lestienne - le chef des services secrets français | ||
| 1973 | Moi y'en a vouloir des sous | Delfau | |
| Décembre | Serge de la Prévoteraie | ||
| The Day of the Jackal | Pascal | ||
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Le général | ||
| 1974 | Antoine and Sebastian | Le capitaine | |
| Chinese in Paris | Hervé Sainfons de Montaubert | ||
| 1975 | Section spéciale | Maurice Gabolde, le procureur de l'État français | |
| Le Chat et la souris | Le préfet de police | ||
| 1976 | Chi dice donna dice donna | Charles | (segment "Donne d'affari") |
| The Toy | Blénac | ||
| 1977 | Sorcerer | Lefevre | |
| 1978 | La Zizanie | Le préfet | |
| One, Two, Two | Le député Bouillaud-Crevel | ||
| Je suis timide mais je me soigne | Mr. Henri | ||
| 1979 | Confidences pour confidences | Delorme | |
| The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials | Le colonel de gendarmerie | ||
| Seven Days in January | Don Thomas | ||
| Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette | Aurélien Brucheloir | ||
| Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses ! | Daniel Granier | ||
| Rien ne va plus | Professeur Casternon | ||
| 1980 | Julien Fontanes, magistrat | Quinzac | TV series |
| 1981 | Celles qu'on n'a pas eues | Le voyageur élégant | |
| On n'est pas des anges... elles non plus | Jacques Loriol | ||
| San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça | Le vieux | ||
| Tais-toi quand tu parles | Diafoirus | ||
| 1982 | A Thousand Billion Dollars | Fred Great | |
| Tête à claques | M. Crispin-Vautier | ||
| Le Cadeau | Jacques Loriol | ||
| Le Père Noël est une ordure | Le pharmacien | ||
| The Troops & Troop-ettes | Le colonel | ||
| Toutes griffes dehors | Alain | TV mini-series | |
| 1983 | L'Africain | Le docteur Patterson | |
| Man, Woman and Child | Louis | ||
| Papy fait de la résistance | Jacques de Frémontel | ||
| 1984 | Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année | John, l'acheteur d'art | |
| The Blood of Others | Colonel Catelas | ||
| Until September | M. Mauriac | ||
| La tête dans le sac | Doctor Choulet | ||
| 1985 | Liberté, Égalité, Choucroute | Necker | |
| 1986 | Sauve-toi, Lola | Charles Schneider | |
| Twist again à Moscou | Maréchal Bassounov | ||
| 1987 | La Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque | L'avocat | |
| La rusa | |||
| 1989 | My Best Pals | M. Thillet | |
| L'invité surprise | Le directeur de la P.J. | ||
| 1991 | L'Opération Corned-Beef | General Masse of the Directorate-General for External Security | |
| Triplex | Le père de Nathalie | ||
| Robinson et compagnie | Robinson | Voice | |
| 1992 | Le fils du Mékong | Dupré | |
| My Wife's Girlfriends | Gilbert Thonon | ||
| 1996 | North Star | Colonel Henry Johnson | |
| My Man | 2nd Client | ||
| 1998 | The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time | Le mari de Gisèle | |
| 1999 | Recto/verso | Bergman | |
| 2000 | Les Acteurs | Himself | |
| Le Roi danse | Cambefort | ||
| 2001 | Fifi Martingale | L'ambassadeur | |
| 2004 | Je suis votre homme | M. de la Touche | (final film role) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Jacques François". Archived from the original on February 5, 2017.
- ^ "Jacques François - Cinémathèque française".
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