1973Winner
Best Performance
The Day of the Jackal
Jacques François
Actor · Director
Paris, France
May 16, 1920
Biography
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. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1977Nominee
Best Performance
Sorcerer
1979Nominee
Best Performance
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Career Highlights
1973Highlight
Best Performance
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
2000Highlight
Best Performance
Actors
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The Day of the Jackal
Sorcerer
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space