Francis Lax

Francis Lax

Born: April 16, 1930
Died: March 13, 2013
in 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.

Movies for Francis Lax...

Marie's Counter
Title: Marie's Counter
Character: le notaire
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Tales of the Perched Cat
Character: Animals (voice)
Released: December 26, 1994
Type: TV
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Le Pélican
Title: Le Pélican
Character: Francis
Released: October 28, 1992
Type: Movie
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L.627
Title: L.627
Character: Chief Superintendent
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Cupido
Character: Le Ministre du Jaune, Professeur Savant S (voice)
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: TV
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Trois partout
Title: Trois partout
Character: Edgar Thibault-Lagarde
Released: October 17, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Lucky Luke
Character: Various voices
Released: October 20, 1984
Type: TV
Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
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Un dîner intime
Title: Un dîner intime
Character: Fréssinet
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Title: Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Character: L'agent de police
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
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Beaufils et fils
Title: Beaufils et fils
Character: Le valet de chambre
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: Le sommelier
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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?
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Title: L'Exercice du pouvoir
Character: The journalist
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
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Le Rabat-joie
Title: Le Rabat-joie
Character: Duran
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Title: Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character: Abadie
Released: November 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le directeur de la P.J. dit "Le vieux"
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.
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The Bottom Line
Title: The Bottom Line
Character: L'automobiliste malchanceux
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Les Jeux de 20 heures
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Nouvelles d'Henry James
Character: Bill Frankle
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: La Mort d'un touriste
Character: Van Daker
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: TV
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Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
Title: Alouqa or the Comedy of the Dead
Character: Le Flos
Released: August 13, 1975
Type: Movie
Thanks to his gifts of clairvoyance, the son of a former servant of a noble family makes his fortune and buys the mansion where he spent his childhood. But he is obsessed by the memory of this house, because the owners were, one by one, victims of an evil spirit. With a troupe of actors, he attempts to reconstruct the dramatic scenes he witnessed.
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Le Bougnoul
Title: Le Bougnoul
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it. The bus driver attacks Mehdi whom he holds responsible for the incident, claiming that it is forbidden to “talk to the stagehand”. Mehdi is implicated in court and his lawyer tries to draw attention to the living conditions of immigrant workers.
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Title: Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
Character: Canardel
Released: November 21, 1974
Type: TV
In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a seven-year stay in America. There, he reunited with his family, persecuted by the Restoration regime. In order for his father to give him his share of the inheritance in advance of his permanent move to America, he needs the consent of his younger brother Antoine, a carpenter who is on the Compagnons' Tour de France. When Toussaint learns that his brother, a member of the Compagnons du Devoir (Devoirants) association, has been killed by a companion from the rival association, the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté (Gavots), he is determined to find the murderer, a certain Tourangeau Sans-Quartier, and avenge his brother. To find this man, he joins the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté incognito.
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Une invitation à la chasse
Title: Une invitation à la chasse
Character: Le moniteur
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Le brigadier
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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The Nada Gang
Title: The Nada Gang
Character: Édouard Longuevache
Released: February 6, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Le Secret des Flamands
Character: Hubert
Released: January 3, 1974
Type: TV
Inspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Title: I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Character: Antoine
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
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...
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Blue Racer Blues
Title: Blue Racer Blues
Character: Fleche bleu
Released: December 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Japanese Beetle helps the lonely Blue Racer make friends with humans. Beetle tries everything from making him a pet who can sing and do tricks, disguising him as a dog, and joining a hippie parade. However, all plans fail.
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A Very Curious Girl
Title: A Very Curious Girl
Character: Emile
Released: December 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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The Hotshots
Title: The Hotshots
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
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If I Were a Spy
Title: If I Were a Spy
Character: Rodard
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Title: Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Character: Marc
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Bichot
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Coplan, Agent 005
Title: Coplan, Agent 005
Released: April 30, 1964
Type: Movie
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
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Les Culottes rouges
Title: Les Culottes rouges
Character: Un homme de la troupe (non crédité)
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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Give Me Ten Desperate Men
Title: Give Me Ten Desperate Men
Released: June 17, 1962
Type: Movie
This is a story that is less a developed tale than a thumbnail sketch about imaginary events on a kibbutz in Palestine. Set in the period just before Israel gained its status as an independent nation, the drama shows the occupants of the kibbutz engaged in typical hard work. They have to find a source of water, construct their buildings, and do all the chores needed to stay alive, and these pressures as well as the times in which they live cause tensions to rise. The mix of kibbutzim covers a wide range of personality types, from the deeply religious to the ingrained soldier.
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Fortunate
Title: Fortunate
Character: évadé du pont
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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Les mains liées
Title: Les mains liées
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
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.