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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. 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 ''The Barkleys of Broadway'' is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film from the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart. Directed by Charles Walters, the screenplay is ...'' (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. Filmography References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Harcourt 1941
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King of France and King consort of Scots (), known as the husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher *François Aubry (other), several people *François Baby (other), several people * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Duck *François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos *François Boucher (other), several people *François Caron (other), several people * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor * Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Childish Father (1953 Film)
''My Childish Father'' (French: ''Mon gosse de père'') is a 1953 French drama film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Maurice Teynac, Jean Tissier and Arlette Poirier. It is based on the 1925 play of the same title by Léopold Marchand which had previously been made into a 1930 film '' My Childish Father''.Goble p.872 The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Druart. Synopsis A party-minded Parisian architect attempts to try and settle down when he marries a younger wife. However he still finds it impossible to overcome his distaste for hard work and his love of fun. Not even the arrival of his hard-working illegitimate American son can change him/ Cast * Maurice Teynac as Lucien Landier * Sirena Adgemova as Yvonne Calabrier * Jean Tissier as Stanley Percheron * Armand Bernard as Révérend James Holiday * Jacques François as Gérard Morrison * Arlette Poirier as Philippine Opposum * Evelyn Nattier * Robert Seller Robert Seller (1889–1967) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Chat Et La Souris
''Le Chat et la Souris'' (US title: ''Cat and Mouse'', also known as ''Seven Suspects for Murder'') is a 1975 French mystery film directed and written by Claude Lelouch. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It tells the story of a rich widow, whose philandering husband is killed, and an inspector tries to solve the murder mystery. Cast *Michèle Morgan as Madame Richard *Serge Reggiani as Lechat *Philippe Léotard as Pierre Chemin *Jean-Pierre Aumont as Monsieur Richard *Valérie Lagrange as Manuelle *Michel Peyrelon as Germain *Christine Laurent as Christine *Philippe Labro as Philippe Lacombe *Jacques François as Le préfet de police *Arlette Emmery as Rose *Jean Mermet *Anne Libert as Anne *Judith Magre as The lady with the dog *Yves Afonso Yves Afonso (13 February 1944 – 21 January 2018) was a French actor. He was born in Saulieu in the Côte-d'Or ''département''. Since his uncredited debut in the movie '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Section Spéciale
''Special Section'' (french: Section spéciale) is a 1975 French film directed by Costa-Gavras and based on the novel ''L'affaire de la Section Spéciale'' by Hervé Villeré. It stars Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennent and Claude Piéplu. It is named after the Special Sections of Vichy France. The film shared the Best Director prize at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe award for best foreign film. Plot In France during the German occupation, a young German naval officer is killed in Paris by a group of leftist activists. The compliant Vichy government seeks to appease the Germans by locating the perpetrators and agreeing to the execution of six people, and a special section is set up for this purpose. The section consists of judges who are too ambitious, cowardly or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese In Paris
''Chinese in Paris'' (french: Les Chinois à Paris) is a 1974 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jean Yanne. The movie features an hypothetical Chinese invasion of western Europe and the life in Paris under communist Chinese rule. Cast * Jean Yanne - Régis Forneret * Nicole Calfan - Stéphanie * Michel Serrault - Grégoire Montclair * Kyōzō Nagatsuka - General Pou-Yen * Jacques François - Hervé Sainfous de Montaubert * Georges Wilson - Lefranc * Macha Méril - Madeleine Fontanes * Bernard Blier - President of France * Paul Préboist - Civil servant * Fernand Ledoux - Frugebelle * Daniel Prévost - Albert Fontanes References External links * See also * May 68 * Cultural Revolution * Chinese community in Paris As of 1990, the majority of Asians living in the Paris area were Overseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese originating from several countries.Guillon, p187 The largest group includes ethnic Chinese from Indochina, and a smaller group originates from Zhej ... 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine And Sebastian
''Antoine and Sebastian'' (french: Antoine et Sébastien) is a 1974 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Marie Périer and starring François Périer, Jacques Dutronc, Ottavia Piccolo and Keith Carradine. Cast * François Périer as Antoine * Jacques Dutronc as Sébastien * Ottavia Piccolo as Nathalie * Keith Carradine as John * Marisa Pavan as Mathilde * Marie Dubois as Corinne * Pierre Tornade as Max * Jacques François as The Captain * Hadi Kalafate as Gamelle * Jean Michaud as The Editor * Olivier Hussenot as Géraldi * Francine Custer as Jérichote * Robert Deslandes as Raymond * Oreste Lionello as Ledieu References External links * 1974 comedy-drama films 1974 films French comedy-drama films Films directed by Jean-Marie Périer 1970s French-language films 1970s French films {{comedy-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mad Adventures Of Rabbi Jacob
''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' (french: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, ) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Louis de Funès and Claude Giraud. It follows a bigoted businessman and a kidnapped revolutionist who disguise themselves as rabbis to escape from assassins. One of De Funès' most popular and iconic movies, it has become a cult classic. Plot Rabbi Jacob ( Marcel Dalio) is one of the most beloved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of young David, and he boards a plane for his native France after more than 30 years of American life. His young friend Rabbi Samuel accompanies him. In Normandy (northern France), the rich businessman Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès) is also on his way to a wedding; his daughter (Miou-Miou) will be married the next day. Pivert is a dreadful man: bad-tempered, rude and bigoted, with a well-honed racism against Blacks, Jews, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of The Jackal (film)
''The Day of the Jackal'' is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox (actor), Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 The Day of the Jackal, novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the Jackal (The Day of the Jackal), "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1962. ''The Day of the Jackal'' received positive reviews and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best Editing (Ralph Kemplen), five additional BAFTA Award nominations, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Awards, Oscar nomination. The film grossed U.S. Dollars, $16,056,255 at the box office, and earned an additional $8,525,000 in North American rentals. The British Film Institute ranked it the BFI Top 100 British films, 74th greatest British film of the 20th century. Plot On 22 August 1962, the militant underground organisation Organisation armée se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plot (film)
''Plot'' (french: L'Attentat, released in the US as ''The French Conspiracy'') is a 1972 French-Italian political thriller film directed by Yves Boisset, inspired by the assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka in Paris. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. Plot The African opposition politician Sadiel lives in exile in Geneva. To take him out for good, the dictator Kassar pacts with the CIA and the French secret service. Finally, the French journalist Darien is blackmailed to ask Sadiel from his exile in Switzerland for an interview in Paris. The reporter, who understands the game after a while, cannot prevent the assassination of the politician in the end. Afterwards, an American friend of the politician kills another confidant on behalf of the CIA. Cast *Jean-Louis Trintignant as François Darien - an unstable intellectual *Michel Piccoli as Kassar The Colonel - the interior minister of a North African country *Jean Seberg as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Maneuver
''The Grand Maneuver'' (french: Les Grandes Manœuvres) is a 1955 French drama film written and directed by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as ''Summer Manoeuvres'', and in the United States under the title ''The Grand Maneuver''. It is a romantic comedy-drama set in a French provincial town just before World War I, and it was René Clair's first film to be made in colour. Plot Armand de la Verne, a lieutenant in the French cavalry and a notorious seducer, undertakes a bet that he will "obtain the favours" of a woman selected secretly by lot, before his company departs for its summer manoeuvres in a month's time. His target turns out to be Marie-Louise Rivière, a Parisian divorcée who runs a milliner's shop, and who is also being courted by the serious and respectable Victor Duverger. Marie Louise's growing attraction towards Armand is tempered by her discoveries about his reputation, while Armand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Paris With Love
''To Paris with Love'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness, Odile Versois and Vernon Gray. Premise A father and son play matchmaker for each other during a trip to Paris. Cast *Alec Guinness as Col. Sir Edgar Fraser *Odile Versois as Lizette Marconne *Vernon Gray as John Fraser *Elina Labourdette as Sylvia Gilbert *Jacques François as Victor de Colville *Austin Trevor as Leon de Colville *Jacques Brunius as Aristide Marconnet *Claude Romain as Georges Duprez *Maureen Davis as Suzanne de Colville *Mollie Hartley Milburn as Madame Alvarez *Michael Anthony as Pierre *Pamela Stirling as Madame Marconnet *Claude Collier as Solo Drummer, Cabaret Act *George Lafaye Company as Cabaret Act Production Though the release prints received the credit 'Color by Technicolor', the production was filmed on location in Eastmancolor and at Pinewood Studios in 3-strip Technicolor. This was at a time when the photographing of British films in colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Order Of The Czar
''At the Order of the Czar'' (French: ''Par ordre du tsar'') is a 1954 French-West German historical drama film directed by André Haguet and starring Michel Simon, Colette Marchand and Jacques François.Mitchell, p. 107 A separate German-language version ''Hungarian Rhapsody'' was also produced. Shooting took place at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location in Paris and the French Riviera. The film's sets were designed by the art director Roland Quignon. It was shot in Gevacolor. Cast * Michel Simon as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein * Colette Marchand as Princess Caroline * Jacques François as Franz Liszt * Jacqueline Gay as Nathalie * Willy Fritsch as Le Grand-Duc * Lucienne Legrand as Maria Paulovna * Yves Brainville Yves Brainville (8 March 1914 – 16 November 1993) was a French film and television actor.Hayward p.245 Selected filmography * ''Entrée des artistes'' (1938) - Sylvestre * ''Accord final'' (1938) - Chenal - l'ami de Georges * ''Eduardo VII'' .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
