Jacques François

ActorDirector May 16 (died age 83) Paris, France 1942–2013 (71 year career)

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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. 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 Astai…

Known For

Film

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

General

Film

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Pascal

Film

Sorcerer

Lefevre

Film

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

Maurice

Film

Gramps Is in the Resistance

Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant

Film

The Toy

Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper

Film

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

Le colonel de gendarmerie

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (88)

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

2013

as Self (archive footage)

Eros Therapy

2004

as M. de la Touche

4.0

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

2003

as Self

Fifi Martingale

2001

as Ambassador

Actors

as Jacques François

The King Is Dancing

as Cambefort

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

as Maurice

My Man

as 2nd client

North Star

as Colonel Henry Johnson

4.7

La Veuve de l'architecte

1995

as Jeannot

George et Margaret

1993

as Malcolm Smith

My Wife's Girlfriends

1992

as Gilbert Thonon

3.7

Leopard Ties

1992

as Bergaux Latour

Les Danseurs du Mozambique

1992

as Theodore

Des cadavres à la pelle

1991

as Le Comte Emile

Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles

as Louis

Robinson and Company

as Robinson (Voice)

Triplex

as M. Challes

L'Opération Corned Beef

1991

as Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale

6.2

My Best Pals

1989

as M. Thuiliet

6.2

Twist Again in Moscow

1986

as Marshal Bassounov

6.0

Sauve-toi, Lola

1986

as Charles Schneider

Liberté, égalité, choucroute

1985

as Necker

5.9

Led by the Nose

1984

as Le Docteur Gaby Choulet

The Blood of Others

as Colonel Catelas

Until September

as M Mauriac

Le Tueur triste

as Notaire

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983

as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant

6.9

The African

1983

as Le docteur Patterson

6.2

Tête à claques

1982

as Mr. Crispin-Vautier

4.9

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

1982

as Le colonel

6.0

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982

as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier

7.3

A Thousand Billion Dollars

1982

as Fred Great

7.0

Bankers Also Have Souls

1982

as Jacques Loriol

4.5

The Ones That Got Away

1981

as The stylish traveler

4.2

Il est important d'être aimé

1981

as Jack Worthing

We're Not Angels... Neither Are They

1981

as Jacques Loriol

6.7

Shut Up When You Speak!

1981

as Diafoirus

6.0

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

1981

as Le vieux

2.0

L'Amant complaisant

1980

as Victor Rhodes

Heart to Heart

1979

as M. Delorme

5.8

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

1979

as Le colonel de gendarmerie

6.0

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

1979

as Aurélien Brucheloir

5.1

Seven Days in January

1979

as Don Thomas

6.0

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

1979

as Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine

Too Shy to Try

as Mr. Henri

The Discord

as Le préfet

Le Greluchon délicat

as Michel

One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence

1978

as Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel

Sorcerer

as Lefevre

The Toy

as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper

6.9

Chi dice donna, dice donna

as Charles

Cat and Mouse

as Police Prefect

Special Section

as Maurice Gabolde

Chinese In Paris

as Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert

6.1

Antoine and Sebastian

1974

as Captain

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as Pascal

7.5

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

1973

as General

7.4

December

1973

as Serge de la Prévoteraie

10.0

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous

as Delfan

The Assassination

as Lestienne

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful

as Plantier

Églantine

as Edmond

Earth Light

as Elstir, l'Éditeur

Un jeu d'enfer

as Benjamin Constant

An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

1967

as Sherlock Holmes

Un mois à la campagne

1966

as Rakitine

Caterina

1963

as Giorgio

10.0

La Mort de Pompée

1961

as Photin

The Grand Manoeuvre

1955

as Rodolphe Chartier

6.0

To Paris with Love

1955

as Victor de Colville

5.2

At the Order of the Czar

1954

as Franz Liszt

The Three Musketeers

1953

as Aramis

6.3

Royal Affairs in Versailles

1953

as Duke de Saint-Simon

South of Algiers

as Jacques Farnod

My Childish Father

as Gérard Morrison

The Father of the Girl

1953

as Michel Leclair

4.0

Three Women

1952

as Horace (segment "Mouche")

Edward and Caroline

1951

as Alain Beauchamp

6.4

Encore

1951

as Pierre, French Steward

6.1

Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny

as Le valet

Skipper Next to God

as The doctor

Pact with the Devil

as Andrea Mola

The Barkleys of Broadway

1949

as Jacques Barredout

6.9

Just a Big Simple Girl

1948

as Mick

Queen's Necklace

1946

as Count of Artois (uncredited)

Captain Fracasse

as Vidalenc

Business Is Business

Television (7)

Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo

as (Voice)

Stars 90

as Self

Palace

as Félix, le maître d'hôtel

Sacrée Soirée

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Pause-café

as M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne

7.0

La Brigade des maléfices

1971

as L'inspecteur principal

5.5

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

L'Amant complaisant

1980

Director