Jacques François
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.
François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0984 |
| Birthday | 1920-05-16 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Jacques Francois, Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François, |
1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
6.062/668
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell t...
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1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
6.944/62
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
1984
The Blood of Others
5.346/13
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The Blood of Others
1973
The Day of the Jackal
7.528/671
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The Day of the Jackal
1978
The Discord
6.39/340
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The Discord
1966
Un mois à la campagne
0/0
1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. The mother, Natalia Petrovna, and her 17-year-old wa...
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Un mois à la campagne
1982
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
6.019/594
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1978
Too Shy to Try
6.43/93
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Too Shy to Try
1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
6.196/265
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
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L'Opération Corned Beef
1981
Shut Up When You Speak!
5.964/14
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Shut Up When You Speak!
1949
The Barkleys of Broadway
6.904/52
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The Barkleys of Broadway
1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
7.32/1061
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
6.125/40
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The Grand Manoeuvre
2000
Actors
5.779/104
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Actors
1996
My Man
5.756/43
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My Man
1995
La Veuve de l'architecte
9/1
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La Veuve de l'architecte
1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
4.76/25
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Bankers Also Have Souls
1986
Twist Again in Moscow
6.073/75
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Twist Again in Moscow
1978
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
3.5/4
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One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
5.208/24
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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
1983
The African
6.267/73
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conse...
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The African
1942
Business Is Business
6.8/5
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Business Is Business
1943
Captain Fracasse
6.4/10
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: tha...
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Captain Fracasse
1976
The Toy
6.92/327
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needin...
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The Toy
1946
Queen's Necklace
4/2
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Queen's Necklace
1975
Cat and Mouse
5.661/31
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy...
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Cat and Mouse
1948
Just a Big Simple Girl
9/1
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
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Just a Big Simple Girl
1951
Skipper Next to God
6.5/2
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives order...
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Skipper Next to God
1952
Three Women
8/1
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Troi...
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Three Women
1961
La Mort de Pompée
0/0
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesa...
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La Mort de Pompée
1953
South of Algiers
6.6/5
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
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South of Algiers
1972
The Assassination
6.767/43
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
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The Assassination
1970
Un jeu d'enfer
0/0
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Un jeu d'enfer
1981
The Ones That Got Away
4.6/10
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The Ones That Got Away
1985
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
5.933/15
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipmen...
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1951
Edward and Caroline
6.5/30
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
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Edward and Caroline
2004
Eros Therapy
4.25/18
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1982
Tête à claques
5.25/12
Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress...
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Tête à claques
1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
6.25/4
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
1979
Heart to Heart
5.95/10
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child w...
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Heart to Heart
2001
Fifi Martingale
7.5/2
The stage director of the play L’œuf de Pâquesis given the importante Molière award. Taking this reward for a bad joke, he thinks that a conspiracy mo...
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Fifi Martingale
1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
6.43/57
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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1984
Le Tueur triste
7.25/2
A crime comedy directed by Nicolas Gessner.
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Le Tueur triste
1998
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
6.021/1060
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1955
To Paris with Love
5.625/8
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.
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To Paris with Love
2000
The King Is Dancing
6.5/46
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and...
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The King Is Dancing
1953
My Childish Father
10/1
A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who...
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My Childish Father
1963
Caterina
10/1
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Caterina
1967
An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
0/0
Adapted from Pierre Decourcelle's version of the William Gillette play. Jacques François plays a very mannered Holmes, almost effeminate, who is in l...
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An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
1973
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
6.5/17
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods...
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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
2003
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
9/1
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
1972
Églantine
6.5/4
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his family. He is delighted to see his grandmother Eglanti...
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Églantine
1953
Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.656/32
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1992
Leopard Ties
10/1
The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican maq...
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Leopard Ties
1973
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
7.389/1054
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by S...
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1953
The Three Musketeers
6.366/41
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, in...
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The Three Musketeers
1953
The Father of the Girl
5/3
Françoise Marinier, a strong-willed young woman, won't accept a husband being forced on her. She left her family and moved to Paris, where she found w...
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The Father of the Girl
1983
Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.865/443
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do...
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
5/2
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
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Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
7/1
A novelist finds herself in an auction where two statuettes are up for sale: "The Mozambique Dancers". According to the legend, the one who owns both...
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Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1973
December
10/2
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most viole...
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December
1978
Le Greluchon délicat
0/0
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Le Greluchon délicat
1950
Pact with the Devil
8/1
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensiv...
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Pact with the Devil
1954
At the Order of the Czar
9/1
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she me...
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At the Order of the Czar
1981
Il est important d'être aimé
10/1
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Il est important d'être aimé
1977
Sorcerer
7.45/648
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting...
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Sorcerer
1986
Sauve-toi, Lola
8/1
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as...
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Sauve-toi, Lola
1975
Special Section
7.15/50
In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government is quick to capitulate. Unable to appr...
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Special Section
1951
Encore
6.231/13
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat...
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Encore
1951
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
5.792/12
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has inva...
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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
1974
Antoine and Sebastian
8/2
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him...
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Antoine and Sebastian
1991
Robinson and Company
5.938/8
As of his early childhood Robinson Crusoe has wanted to become a sailor. And when he does become one bad luck has it that the vessel he sails on gets...
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Robinson and Company
1979
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
6.394/33
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun...
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Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
Seven Days in January
6.167/6
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.
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Seven Days in January
1996
North Star
4.793/45
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that...
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North Star
1974
Chinese In Paris
6.188/32
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, w...
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Chinese In Paris
1992
My Wife's Girlfriends
4.286/7
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
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My Wife's Girlfriends
1981
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
7/4
A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.
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We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
1970
Earth Light
6.905/21
The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which...
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Earth Light
1993
George et Margaret
0/0
In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful young woman.
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George et Margaret
1980
L'Amant complaisant
8/1
Living comfortably, the Rhodes family is a quiet family. What no one knows is that Mary has a lover, Clive Root. She leaves for a few days with him...
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L'Amant complaisant
1981
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
3.5/4
Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would...
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San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
1991
Triplex
5.2/5
A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.
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Triplex
1984
Led by the Nose
5.333/6
Three times divorced, a man consoles himself with another version of success, that of money.
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Led by the Nose
1991
Des cadavres à la pelle
9/1
Three friends, Robert, Michel and Jean, would be three happy men if Robert's aunt, who has inherited a magnificent nightclub, the King Club, in which...
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Des cadavres à la pelle
1989
My Best Pals
6.255/104
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernad...
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My Best Pals
2013
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
0/0
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1984
Until September
5/15
American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave --...
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