Francis Lax

Acting

Francis Lax

Born 1930-04-16 · Paris, France

French actor and voice actor, born 16 April 1930 and died 13 March 2013 in Paris. He was known for dubbing Tom Selleck (Magnum), David Soul (Starsky & Hutch), Harrison Ford (Star Wars), Shaggy (Scooby-Doo), George Jetson (The Jetsons), Ranger Smith (Yogi Bear), Brainy and Clumsy (The Smurfs) or Snarf (Thundercats) as well as several characters of the Muppet Show.

Acting credits

The Hotshots poster
5.5

A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.

The Hotshots

1968

A Very Curious Girl poster
6.2

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.

A Very Curious Girl

1969

The Nada Gang poster
6.0

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.

The Nada Gang

1974

Le Pélican poster
9.0

Three friends finish a meal washed down with plenty of wine. The host proposes a riddle: It's the story of a guy who goes to a restaurant. He reads the menu and orders pelican. The waiter serves him, the guy tastes the pelican, and he commits suicide. Why?

Le Pélican

1992

Marie's Counter poster
7.0

A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.

Marie's Counter

1998

The Bottom Line poster
5.6

An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.

The Bottom Line

1976

Fortunate poster
7.4

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

Fortunate

1960

L.627 poster
7.1

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.

L.627

1992

Le Rabat-joie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Rabat-joie

1978

On a volé ma VF poster
8.1

Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgan Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.

On a volé ma VF

2024

Too Shy to Try poster
6.4

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 Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?

Too Shy to Try

1978

Les mains liées poster
8.0

François Jauréguy is a young Basque who would love to devote his life to God. But meeting Maïté and the example of the worker priests makes him doubt the wisdom of his choice. Marie-Jeanne, his mother, suffers from this situation. She knew a man, Jean Etchandy, who renounced the priesthood out of love for her. François supports him in his final moments, and celebrates his first mass before his mother's tender eyes.

Les mains liées

1956

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything poster
5.3

Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything

1973

Coplan, Agent 005 poster
5.5

In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.

Coplan, Agent 005

1964

Le bébé schtroumpf poster
6.7

One night when the moon was blue, in the land of the Smurfs, a stork left a strange little basket containing a baby Smurf on the doorstep of a house.

Le bébé schtroumpf

1984

Rock and Torah poster
6.5

This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons.

Rock and Torah

1983

April and the Sandman poster
10.0

The wonder of Christmas lights the world when kindhearted Sandman uses his magic sand to make toys come alive. One little doll named April gets sprinkled and is delighted that she can now talk, walk and sing. She takes off for an adventure into the real world, only to find that not everyone is as nice as the Sandman, especially the clumsy grinch, Bootlace, who wants to capture her and all the other real toys to sell to the highest bidder. But it is Christmas Eve, a time for miracles, and April and the Sandman are about to save the toys and make children's dreams come true.

April and the Sandman

1994

Fais gaffe à la gaffe ! poster
5.4

Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.

Fais gaffe à la gaffe !

1981

Les Culottes rouges poster
6.6

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.

Les Culottes rouges

1962

Beaufils et fils poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Beaufils et fils

1980

Panier de crabes poster
NR

A French adaptation of Neil Simon's play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", staged by Jacques Rosny.

Panier de crabes

1999

Trois partout poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Trois partout

1990

Manon Roland poster
7.0

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

Manon Roland

1989

Le Gentleman des Antipodes poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Gentleman des Antipodes

1976

Behind the camera