Jacques François
Acting

Jacques François

Born 16 May 1920 · Paris, France · Died 25 November 2003

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.

Known for

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
The Day of the Jackal
Sorcerer
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Gramps Is in the Resistance
The Discord
The Toy
L'Opération Corned Beef
Actors
Eros Therapy
Fifi Martingale
Actors
The King Is Dancing
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
My Man
North Star
La Veuve de l'architecte
George et Margaret
Leopard Ties
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
My Wife's Girlfriends
L'Opération Corned Beef
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Robinson and Company
Triplex
Des cadavres à la pelle
My Best Pals
Twist Again in Moscow
Sauve-toi, Lola
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
The Blood of Others
Le Tueur triste
Led by the Nose
Until September
The African
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Man, Woman and Child
A Thousand Billion Dollars
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Bankers Also Have Souls
Tête à claques
Malesherbes, avocat du roi
Shut Up When You Speak!
The Ones That Got Away
Il est important d'être aimé
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
L'Amant complaisant
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Heart to Heart
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Seven Days in January
The Discord
Too Shy to Try
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Le Greluchon délicat
Sorcerer
The Toy
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Cat and Mouse
Special Section
Antoine and Sebastian
Chinese In Paris
The Day of the Jackal
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
December
The Assassination
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Églantine
Earth Light
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un mois à la campagne
Caterina
La Mort de Pompée
The Grand Manoeuvre
To Paris with Love
At the Order of the Czar
South of Algiers
My Childish Father
Royal Affairs in Versailles
The Three Musketeers
The Father of the Girl
Three Women
Skipper Next to God
Edward and Caroline
Encore
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Pact with the Devil
The Barkleys of Broadway
Just a Big Simple Girl
Captain Fracasse
Business Is Business
Jacques François · Midrow