Jacques Frantz

Jacques Frantz

Born: April 4, 1947
Died: March 17, 2021
in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
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.

Movies for Jacques Frantz...

Poor Bastards
Title: Poor Bastards
Released: June 5, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Tickles
Title: Little Tickles
Character: Voix publicité (voice)
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Elmyr de Hory, le faussaire du siècle
Title: Elmyr de Hory, le faussaire du siècle
Character: Narrator
Released: July 17, 2016
Type: Movie
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Dieumerci !
Title: Dieumerci !
Character: Georges Polito
Released: March 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
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The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Title: The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Character: Additional Voice (voice)
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Up to Me
Title: Up to Me
Character: Nijinsky
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Just Like Brothers
Title: Just Like Brothers
Character: Pierre Naillac
Released: November 21, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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What the Day Owes the Night
Title: What the Day Owes the Night
Character: Jean-Christophe (70 ans)
Released: September 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national
Title: Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
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Une femme nommée Marie
Title: Une femme nommée Marie
Character: Voce narrante
Released: August 13, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Heartbreaker
Title: Heartbreaker
Character: Van Der Beck
Released: March 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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The Day Will Come
Title: The Day Will Come
Character: Jean-Marc
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Title: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Character: Bastille Prison Warden
Released: August 3, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon
Title: The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon
Character: Father (voice)
Released: May 13, 2009
Type: Movie
In August, 1944, during the landing of Provence, a french soldier, too young to wage war, meets a Senegalese Tirailleur in combat.
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Simon Krepps
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Le patron
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Foursome
Title: Foursome
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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!
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To Each His Own Cinema
Title: To Each His Own Cinema
Character: The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
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The Missing Granddaughter
Title: The Missing Granddaughter
Character: Nathan
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Occupations
Title: Occupations
Character: Businessman
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Von Trier plays himself, berating and violently hammering a loudmouthed businessman (Jacques Frantz) to death during the premiere of Manderlay.
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Counter Investigation
Title: Counter Investigation
Character: Michel Arnalde
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
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Les Innocents
Title: Les Innocents
Character: Le lieutenant Fernaud
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: Movie
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Asterix and the Vikings
Title: Asterix and the Vikings
Character: Obélix (voice)
Released: April 5, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower
Title: The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower
Character: Gustave Eiffel
Released: December 18, 2005
Type: Movie
This movie is a docudrama relating the early history of the Eiffel Tower: From the planning to its first military use.
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Title: The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Character: Cocardasse
Released: December 25, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Title: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: La Franchise
Released: June 20, 2003
Type: Movie
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
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A Loving Father
Title: A Loving Father
Character: Antoine Levy
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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The Housekeeper
Title: The Housekeeper
Character: Ralph
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Mélissol
Character: Martin Mélissol
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Don Alonse
Released: April 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
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Title: Blake and Mortimer
Character: Narrateur
Released: April 19, 1997
Type: TV
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.
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Chaudemanche, père et fils
Title: Chaudemanche, père et fils
Character: Antoine Chaudemanche
Released: May 13, 1996
Type: Movie
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Un enfant de trop
Title: Un enfant de trop
Character: Maurice Nicod
Released: April 30, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: Belle Époque
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: TV
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.
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Black Light
Title: Black Light
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
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La Crise
Title: La Crise
Character: Monsieur Borin
Released: December 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
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Cop au Vin
Title: Cop au Vin
Character: Alexandre Duteil
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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The Twin
Title: The Twin
Character: Ralph
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
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Title: Billet doux
Character: L'inspecteur Toulet
Released: October 4, 1984
Type: TV
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My New Partner
Title: My New Partner
Character: Franck
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
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The ComDads
Title: The ComDads
Character: Verdier
Released: November 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
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Title: Les Chevaux du soleil
Character: Hector Griès
Released: October 22, 1980
Type: TV
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.
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Hothead
Title: Hothead
Character: Driver of the second truck
Released: February 14, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Out of It
Title: Out of It
Character: Rocheteau, policier tranquant Gaulard en fuite
Released: October 10, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Dear Inspector
Title: Dear Inspector
Character: L'inspecteur Verdier
Released: January 18, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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The Little Wheedlers
Title: The Little Wheedlers
Character: Marc
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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The Question
Title: The Question
Character: Lieutenant Lamaze
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le chirurgien
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.