Jacques François
Birthday: Born in 1920-05-16 in Paris, France
Deathday: 2003-11-25
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 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 (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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Pause-café
Character: M. Le proviseur du lycée Jules Verne
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Palace
Character: Félix, le maître d'hôtel
The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ......
La Brigade des maléfices
Character: L'inspecteur principal
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Stars 90
Character: Self
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Les Grands Airs de Tebaldo
Character: (Voice)
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Character: der Oberst
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 the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead....
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Character: Fred Great
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake....
The Blood of Others
Character: Colonel Catelas
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection....
The Day of the Jackal
Character: Pascal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail....
The Discord
Character: Le préfet
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally ha...
Un mois à la campagne
Character: Rakitine
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 ward, Vera, fall in love with the frustrated boy... Adaptation of Ivan Tourgueniev's most famous play, starring Delphine Seyrig as Natalia Petrovna....
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Character: Colonel
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped....
Too Shy to Try
Character: Mr. Henri
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauvill...
L'Opération Corned Beef
Character: Le Général Masse, supérieur hiérarchique du Squale
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee....
Shut Up When You Speak!
Character: Diafoirus
Giacomo has an idol: James Bond. When he dreams, he dreams of himself, his fabulous adventures, especially in Tunisia, and a beautiful wife, Belle. In reality he is unemployed, overwhelmed by an obsessive mother who continually called to see if he wore his woolen tank top and is treated by a doctor who thinks he is Einstein. Finally Giacomo is followed by bizarre characters, kidnapped and taken to Tunisia to live a wonderful adventure of her dreams, from the dangers of any kind ... and he met Be...
The Barkleys of Broadway
Character: Jacques Barredout
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man....
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character: Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office....
The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Rodolphe Chartier
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before....
Actors
Character: Himself
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema....
My Man
Character: 2nd client
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. H...
La Veuve de l'architecte
Character: Jeannot
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Bankers Also Have Souls
Character: Jacques Loriol
A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility....
Twist Again in Moscow
Character: Maréchal Bassounov
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring....
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Character: Deputy Bouillaud-Crevel
Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence. Patronized by the wealthy and powerful, this elegant house of prostitution featured a top-ranked restaurant and specialized rooms for men with unusual tastes: a railroad carriage room, a stable room, etc. In the story, two young people "on the make" bump into each other as they are arriving in the same rail station. Though attracted to one another, t...
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Character: Aurélien Brucheloir
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant....
The African
Character: Le docteur Patterson
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 conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to build this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?...
Business Is Business
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Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist....
Captain Fracasse
Character: Vidalenc
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: that of Captain Fracasse....
The Toy
Character: Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper
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. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men....
Queen's Necklace
Character: Count of Artois (uncredited)
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange....
Cat and Mouse
Character: Police Prefect
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 entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group....
Just a Big Simple Girl
Character: Mick
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....
Skipper Next to God
Character: The doctor
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 orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity....
Three Women
Character: Horace (segment "Mouche")
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 Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregn...
La Mort de Pompée
Character:
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesar's good graces. Once the crime is committed, Ptolemy impatiently awaits recognition from Caesar. But a completely different fate awaits Cleopatra's brother....
South of Algiers
Character: Jacques Farnod
Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask....
The Assassination
Character: Lestienne
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. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with....
The Ones That Got Away
Character: The stylish traveler
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one....
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Character: Necker
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition....
Edward and Caroline
Character: Alain Beauchamp
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas....
Eros Therapy
Character: M. de la Touche
A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months....
Tête à claques
Character: Mr. Crispin-Vautier
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 who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again....
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Character: Charles
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant....
Heart to Heart
Character: M. Delorme
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights....
Fifi Martingale
Character:
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 mounts against him and decides to rewrite the play, transforming it into Molière’s La critique de l’École des femmes....
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Character: Plantier
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité"....
Le Tueur triste
Character: Notaire
A crime comedy directed by Nicolas Gessner....
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Character: Maurice
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter....
To Paris with Love
Character: Victor de Colville
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love....
The King Is Dancing
Character: Cambefort
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 artistic brilliancy as a dancer...
My Childish Father
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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 proves incapable of holding him back and, above all, of making him work. But a young American arrives in Paris and reveals that he is the architect's natural son. At first reluctant, the latter and his young wife quickly adapt to the new situation, until the son, a businessman through and through, wants to share with his father his ideas on life, w...
Caterina
Character: Giorgio
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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Character: Delfan
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money....
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character: Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves....
Églantine
Character:
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his family. He is delighted to see his grandmother Eglantine again. The good times spent with all those close to him make him forget the stress of school. But with the start of the new school year fast approaching, Léopold learns of Eglantine's death....
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Duke de Saint-Simon
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly....
Leopard Ties
Character: Bergaux Latour
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 maquis, hoping to transform them into conquerors. The executives, in suits and ties, find the hostile environment challenging....
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: General
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's den...
The Three Musketeers
Character: Aramis
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, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords....
The Father of the Girl
Character: Michel Leclair
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 work as a secretary for a fashionable artist, Edith Mars. The understanding Edith Mars encourages Françoise's budding love affair with an embassy attaché. Edith is the mistress of the Minister of Justice, and the Marinier parents arrive believing it's their daughter they're interviewing. While Mme Marinier puts up with it, her husband is scandalized...
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant
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 they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!...
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Character: Louis
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming...
December
Character: Serge de la Prévoteraie
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 violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse....
Le Greluchon délicat
Character:
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At the Order of the Czar
Character: Franz Liszt
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 met Franz Liszt, whose fame had already conquered the whole of Europe. Taking advantage of her husband's absence, the young woman invites the musician to her estate in Woronince. When Franz confesses his love for her, she finds it easier to fight her own feelings....
Il est important d'être aimé
Character: Jack Worthing
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Sorcerer
Character: Lefevre
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 several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain....
Special Section
Character: Maurice Gabolde
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible....
Encore
Character: Pierre, French Steward
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 Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio....
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Character: Le valet
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 invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... l...
Antoine and Sebastian
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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 to marry Nathalie, the girl he grew up with. But Nathalie is in love with an American, and the day Sébastien has a leave, she leaves with her lover....
Robinson and Company
Character: Robinson (Voice)
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 shipwrecked. Being the only survivor of the catastrophe, he manages to take refuge on a desert island where he will spend several years, learning how to survive......
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Character: Daniel Granier, pharmacist, friend of Christine
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 of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"......
Seven Days in January
Character: Don Thomas
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order....
North Star
Character: Colonel Henry Johnson
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 becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numb...
Chinese In Paris
Character: Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists....
My Wife's Girlfriends
Character: Gilbert Thonon
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated....
We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Character: Jacques Loriol
A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance....
Earth Light
Character: Elstir, l'Éditeur
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 he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child....
George et Margaret
Character: Malcolm Smith
In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful young woman....
L'Amant complaisant
Character:
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 and tells her husband that she is visiting a friend. Her husband surprises her in Holland, but he does not suspect the truth until later, because of an anonymous letter. Which of the two Marys will she choose...
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Character: Le vieux
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 like to recover at all costs....
Triplex
Character: M. Challes
A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client....
Led by the Nose
Character: Le Docteur Gaby Choulet
Three times divorced, a man consoles himself with another version of success, that of money....