Jacques François

Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François 16 May 1920 25 November 2003 known as Jacques François was a French actorDuring a sixtyyear career 19422002 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 CCBYSA 30