After decades in the business, Jacques François is the kind of actor with a filmography that reaches back further than most viewers remember. 'The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob' is a second title with real reach. 84 appearances between the two screens is the plain arithmetic of it. Of everything on the filmography, 'The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time' is the work that traveled the furthest.
Jacques François
Actor
83 years (May 16, 1920 – Nov 25, 2003)Paris, France
After decades in the business, Jacques François is the kind of actor with a filmography that reaches back further than most viewers remember. 'The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob' is a second title with real reach. 84 appearances between the two screens is the plain arithmetic of it. Of everything on the filmography, 'The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time' is the work that traveled the furthest.
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.