
Birthday:
04-04-1947
Deathday:
03-17-2021 (73 years)
Birthplace:
Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
Biography
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.
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Cop au Vin
Act like Alexandre Duteil
event1985 star_border 6.2
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Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Counter Investigation
Act like Michel Arnalde
event2007 star_border 6.9
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A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Poor Bastards
event2019 star_border 1
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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.
Asterix and the Vikings
Act like Obélix (voice)
event2006 star_border 6.1
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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.
The Housekeeper
Act like Ralph
event2002 star_border 5.6
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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.
Heartbreaker
Act like Van Der Beck
event2010 star_border 6.6
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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.
Fan-Fan the Tulip
Act like La Franchise
event2003 star_border 5.5
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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
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Act like Bastille Prison Warden
event2009 star_border 5.8
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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.
The Day Will Come
Act like Jean-Marc
event2009 star_border 6
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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.
Asylum
Act like Le patron
event2008 star_border 6
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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.
The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower
Act like Gustave Eiffel
event2005 star_border 4.7
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This movie is a docudrama relating the early history of the Eiffel Tower: From the planning to its first military use.
A Loving Father
Act like Antoine Levy
event2002 star_border 5.6
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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.
Just Like Brothers
Act like Pierre Naillac
event2012 star_border 6.6
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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.
My New Partner
Act like Franck
event1984 star_border 6.6
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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...
The Missing Granddaughter
Act like Nathan
event2007 star_border 6
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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.
Hothead
Act like Driver of the second truck
event1979 star_border 7.1
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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.
Don Juan
Act like Don Alonse
event1998 star_border 4.4
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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.
Dieumerci !
Act like Georges Polito
event2016 star_border 5.9
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A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
Dear Inspector
Act like L'inspecteur Verdier
event1978 star_border 5.9
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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.
Black Light
event1994
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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.
Un enfant de trop
Act like Maurice Nicod
event1995
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A young mother released on parole answers a small ad placed by a farmer looking for a wife.
The Crisis
Act like M. Borin
event1992 star_border 6.9
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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.
The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon
Act like Father (voice)
event2009
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In August, 1944, during the landing of Provence, a french soldier, too young to wage war, meets a Senegalese Tirailleur in combat.
Une femme nommée Marie
Act like Voce narrante
event2011
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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.
The First Star
Act like René
event2009 star_border 5.7
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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.
On a volé ma VF
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2024 star_border 8.2
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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 Morgane 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.
The Little Wheedlers
Act like Marc
event1977 star_border 4.6
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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 Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Act like Additional Voice (voice)
event2016 star_border 7.2
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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.
Out of It
Act like Commissioner Rocheteau, tracking Gaulard on the run
event1978 star_border 6.5
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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.
Up to Me
Act like Nijinsky
event2015
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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.
The ComDads
Act like Verdier
event1983 star_border 6.6
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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.
The Twin
Act like Ralph
event1984 star_border 6
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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.
To Each His Own Cinema
Act like The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
event2007 star_border 6.5
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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.
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Act like Cocardasse
event2003 star_border 7.4
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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.
Foursome
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2008 star_border 5
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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!
What the Day Owes the Night
Act like Jean-Christophe (70 ans)
event2012 star_border 7.7
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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.
Little Tickles
Act like Voix publicité (voice)
event2018 star_border 7.4
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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.
The Question
Act like Lieutenant Lamaze
event1977 star_border 5.5
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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.
Belle Époque
(3 ep.)
event1995 star_border 10
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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.
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Act like Simon Krepps (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.4
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French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
Les Chevaux du soleil
Act like Hector Griès (12 ep.)
event1980
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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.
Blake and Mortimer
Act like Narrateur (13 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.2
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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.
Police Commissioner Moulin
Act like Le chirurgien (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 5.8
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The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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