Jacques François

For the soccer player, see Jacques Francois (soccer).

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 Ophuls, 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.

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Fifi Martingale
2000	Les Acteurs	Himself
1996	My Man
	North Star
1992	My Wife's Girlfriends	Gilbert Thonon
1991	L'Opération Corned-Beef	General Masse of the Directorate-General for External Security
1991	Triplex
1983	Papy fait de la résistance
1982	Le Père Noël est une ordure
	Le Cadeau
	A Thousand Billion Dollars
	Toutes griffes dehors	Alain
1980	Julien Fontanes, magistrat	Quinzac
1979	Seven Days in January
1978	La Zizanie
	One Two Two	Bouillaud-Crevel
1977	Sorcerer
1976	The Toy
1975	Section spéciale
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Pascal
1972	Plot
1955	The Grand Maneuver
	To Paris with Love
1953	South of Algiers
1952	Three Women
1951	Encore
	Edward and Caroline
1950	Pact with the Devil
1949	The Barkleys of Broadway