Jacques Dumesnil
Biography
Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly ; 9 November 1903 – 8 May 1998) was a French film and television actor. Jacques Dumesnil was born as Marie Émile Eugène André Joly on November 9, 1903, in Paris, France. Before becoming an actor, he received training as a mechanical engineer. After starting as a secretary at the aviation school, he became an industrial designer, a profession he left to devote himself to the theater. He adopted the pseudonym Dumesnil because of the admiration he had to French actor Camille Dumény. He started out as a fanciful singer in a café located in Paris Place de l'Hôtel de Ville , he was paid in sandwiches and glasses of beer. Dumesnil started on stage in 1927 and divided his career between theater and cinema. Having spent two years at the Comédie-Française , he played among other things in Les Tontons flingueurs and provided the French voice of Charlie Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and A King in New York (1957). His role as Duke of Plessis-Vaudreuil in the television series Au Plaisir de Dieu , earned him a resurgence of popularity and the 7 d'Or for best actor. Jacques Dumesnil had a son, Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil , who was a French swimming champion and participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , Finland.
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Movies (48)
Que personne ne sorte
as Police director
1964
Crooks in Clover
as Louis « le Mexicain »
1963
Horace 62
as Old Horace
1963
The Hideout
as Garnier, director
1962
Secret File 1413
as Docteur Pira
1961
Famous Love Affairs
as Hans, le bourreau
1961
Première brigade criminelle
as Commissioner Masson
1961
¿Pena de muerte?
as Pablo's father
1961
La tricheuse
1960
La P..... sentimentale
as Pierre Berger
1958
Life Together
as Le docteur Henri Girane
1958
Le Misanthrope
as Alceste
1958
The Seventh Commandment
as Gilbert Odet
1957
All the World's Memory
as Self / Narrator (voice)
1956
Plucking the Daisy
as General Dumont
1956
If Paris Were Told to Us
as Richelieu
1956
Napoleon
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
1955
The Count of Bragelonne
as d'Artagnan
1954
Ulysses
as Alicinous
1954
Anna
as Professor Ferri
1951
Julie de Carneilhan
as Léon de Carneilhan
1950
The Farm of Seven Sins
as Paul-Louis Courier
1949
56, rue Pigalle
as Jean Vigneron
1949
Trafiquants de la mer
as L'inspecteur principal Gardy
1947
La dernière chevauchée
as André Valérian
1947
Rumors
as Jean
1947
Women's Games
as Stanislas
1946
Father Serge
1945
The Great Pack
as Côme de Lambrefaut
1945
Night Shift
as Pierre Jansen
1944
Le bal des passants
as Claude Amadieu
1944
Sowing the Wind
as The sculptor Bruno Horp
1944
Pierre and Jean
as Marchat
1943
Malaria
1943
Secrets
as Pierre
1943
White Wings
as Gérard Clairval
1943
Twisted Mistress
as Guy Carbonnel
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Max de Bray
1942
Boléro
as Georges
1942
African Diary
as Le lieutenant Parent
1940
Two Women
as Gomar
1940
Yamilé Under the Cedars
as Osman Hel Hussein
1939
Behind the Facade
as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
1939
Return at Dawn
as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
1938
Marked Girls
as Lawyer
1938
Rail Pirates
as Rolland
1938
Le cœur dispose
as Baron Houzier
1937
Bach the Detective
as Stefani
1936
