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Jacques François

May 16, 1920 - Nov 25, 2003 (83 years old) in Paris, France

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.

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Known For

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The Day of the Jackal
Pascal
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Palace
Félix, le maître d'hôtel
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Sorcerer
Lefevre
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
General
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Maurice
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La Brigade des maléfices
L'inspecteur principal
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Colonel
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Pause-café
M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne

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