Jacques François
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 16, 1920, Paris, France
- Died
- November 25, 2003
- Movies
- 92
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.
Best-Known Movies
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Sorcerer
1977
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
The Discord
1978
The Toy
1976
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1980 | L'Amant complaisant | Director |
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