Jacques Frantz

Acting

Jacques Frantz

Born — Died

1947-04-04 — 2021-03-17

Place of birth

Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Jacques Frantz (4 April 1947 – 17 March 2021) was a Molière-nominated French actor and voice artist. He is renowned for his theatre work, and his voice, which he has lent to many well known actors such as Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, and Nick Nolte. Frantz has also appeared in films. Since October 2013, he was the official voice of the radio station Nostalgie.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 13 titles

Heartbreaker poster
6.6

Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.

Heartbreaker

2010

What the Day Owes the Night poster
7.6

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.

What the Day Owes the Night

2012

Little Tickles poster
7.4

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

Little Tickles

2018

Queens of the Ring poster
5.8

More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she's found a way to melt the ice: she'll put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as checkout girls...

Queens of the Ring

2013

The Worlds of Philip K. Dick poster
6.6

An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), whose outstanding work predicted like no other the dystopian debacle toward which the chaotic world of the 21st century is inevitably heading.

The Worlds of Philip K. Dick

2016

Une femme nommée Marie poster
NR

August 2011 pageant performance staged by Robert Hossein depicting St. Bernadette's encounter with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Production was filmed at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes with an audience of 30,000 people.

Une femme nommée Marie

2011

Just Like Brothers poster
6.6

Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.

Just Like Brothers

2012

Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national

2011

Poor Bastards poster
1.0

Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.

Poor Bastards

2019

Dieumerci ! poster
5.9

A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.

Dieumerci !

2016

The Unknown Soldier, The Children of the Resistance poster
NR

In August 1944, in a Maquis of the south of France, a group of resistance fighters has the mission to prepare and to make easier the landing of the Allies in Provence. In this difficult context, a father tries to protect the innocence of his son, devastated by tragic events that he just lived through and to make him glimpse that there is a life after war.

The Unknown Soldier, The Children of the Resistance

2011

No artwork available
NR

Milan and Nola are twenty and have promised to love each other to the death. It is for that reason that they jump off a bridge one July evening. In the psychiatric ward where they were taken, they get to know an old schizophrenic who takes himself for the dancer Nijinsky and who will dance his last ballet with them, on the run in the streets of Paris. From bridge to bridge, from street to street, on the macadam and on the water of the Seine, Milan will pursue his quest and will try to understand the mysterious disappearance of Nola.

Up to Me

2015

Elmyr de Hory, le faussaire du siècle poster
NR

He was the master forger of the 20th century: the Hungarian painter Elmyr de Hory. We will probably never know how many works by Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani still hang in museums and private collections. In addition to the life story of de Hory, the documentary also follows the paths of the two art swindlers Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. In the style of an exciting investigation, the documentary traces the lives of three enigmatic figures: Those of the Hungarian painter and art forger Elmyr de Hory, the Frenchman Fernand Legros, also a famous art fraudster, and the Canadian Réal Lessard, also an art forger and lover of Legros. Legros was a character straight out of a novel: a millionaire at the age of 25 and a homosexual dandy who loved luxury limousines, fur coats, cigars, lavish parties and a relaxed lifestyle. He had an affair with Legros, but Elmyr de Hory may also have fallen in love with him.

Elmyr de Hory, le faussaire du siècle

2016

2000s · 17 titles

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra poster
5.8

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009

Asterix and the Vikings poster
6.1

Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix.

Asterix and the Vikings

2006

Counter Investigation poster
6.8

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.

Counter Investigation

2007

Fan-Fan the Tulip poster
5.5

In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters

Fan-Fan the Tulip

2003

To Each His Own Cinema poster
6.4

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

The Housekeeper poster
5.6

After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.

The Housekeeper

2002

Asylum poster
6.0

Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.

Asylum

2008

A Loving Father poster
5.6

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.

A Loving Father

2002

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere poster
7.1

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

2003

The First Star poster
5.7

A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.

The First Star

2009

The Missing Granddaughter poster
6.0

Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War. During the war her whole family was sent to the German extermination camps by French collaborators. Eva survived by chance. Then by chance a new girl enters her class, a girl who resembles Eva's dead daughter.

The Missing Granddaughter

2007

The Love Test poster
4.0

After Thierry asks for Sabine's hand in marriage, her best friend Elsa decides to test his faithfulness and sincerity by passing herself off as Sabine's country cousin and having Sabine ask Thierry to put her up for a few days in Paris.

The Love Test

2007

The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower poster
5.5

This movie is a docudrama relating the early history of the Eiffel Tower: From the planning to its first military use.

The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower

2005

Les Innocents poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Les Innocents

2006

The Day Will Come poster
6.0

Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is now living with a new family and a new identity. Alice calls on her mother to give herself up, but Judith doesn't regret any of her past deeds.

The Day Will Come

2009

Foursome poster
3.5

Three collegues decide to go for a break to a sea spa hotel because they are overwhelmed with stress at work. There, they come to the realization that all their problems actually stem from one man. This man, who is making a fool of them works in the same company.. Now it's time for revenge!

Foursome

2008

The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon poster
NR

In August, 1944, during the landing of Provence, a french soldier, too young to wage war, meets a Senegalese Tirailleur in combat.

The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon

2009

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 5 titles

Dear Inspector poster
5.9

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

Dear Inspector

1978

Out of It poster
6.6

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Out of It

1978

Hothead poster
7.1

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.

Hothead

1979

The Question poster
5.7

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.

The Question

1977

The Little Wheedlers poster
5.0

Sylvie, Corinne and Sophie all live in the same accommodation in Paris. The first sells clothes on the steps. The second works in a factory restaurant and the third is divorced, has a child and does odd jobs.

The Little Wheedlers

1978

Series credits

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie poster
7.4

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009

Maigret poster
7.7

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Maigret

1991

Police Commissioner Moulin poster
7.1

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Police Commissioner Moulin

1976

Rahan poster
10.0

Followed by Ursus, small furry creature and biggest chatterbox of all time, Rahan, a young prehistoric hunter, pursues the dream that one day "those-who-walk-upright" will live in peace.

Rahan

2008

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur poster
8.5

Schulmeister, l’espion de l’empereur (Schulmeister, the Emperor's Spy) is a French historical adventure television series consisting of 13 episodes (1971–1974), inspired by the real life of Charles Louis Schulmeister, a famous spy in the service of Napoleon I. It alternates between historical facts and fiction, offering a fictionalized portrait of a cunning spy, loyal to Napoleon, and always ready to turn a situation to his advantage.

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur

1971

Blake and Mortimer poster
6.8

Blake and Mortimer is an animated television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. The series was directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, and produced by Ellipse, and shown in 1997. The first nine stories were used in this series, as well as four brand new stories, devised by the creators: The Viking's Bequest, The Secret of Easter Island, The Alchemist's Will, and The Druid. New writers, mostly connected to the production company as writers, dialogists or translators, were asked to come up with original plotlines which used the characters of Jacobs' stories, respected the magical/scientific Universe, but rang interesting changes.

Blake and Mortimer

1997

Napoleon poster
9.0

The miniseries charts Napoleon Bonaparte’s career from his return after the Egyptian campaign to his downfall and exile on Elba, portraying his political maneuvering, military ambition, and complex relationships with key figures such as Talleyrand, Fouché, Murat, Tsar Alexander, Joséphine de Beauharnais, and Countess Marie Walewska.

Napoleon

1991

Les Chevaux du soleil poster
10.0

Adapted from Jules Roy's historical novel of the French presence in North Africa, the TV series follows the destiny of two families, the Bouychous and the Parises, from the conquest of Algiers in 1830 to the Independence in 1962.

Les Chevaux du soleil

1980

No artwork available
10.0

It all begins when Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), famous builder of the moving sidewalk for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, saves the life of the beautiful Alice Avellano (Kristin Scott Thomas), whom her husband, who has gone mad, was trying to strangle. Lucien Lachenay is himself threatened by a group of anarchists who have instructed a young worker, Alphonse (Benno Fürmann), to suppress him. Alphonse messes up the job, but Lucien, impressed by his inexhaustible energy and thirst for knowledge, agrees to be his mentor instead of handing him over to the police. In the years that follow, Lucien, Alphonse, Alice and the young and attractive Laure (Isabelle Carré) will face the game of rivalry, betrayal and reconciliation.

Belle Époque

1995

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mélissol

1999

Billet doux poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Billet doux

1984