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.
Known For
Ulysses
Napoleon
Crooks in Clover
Au plaisir de Dieu
Famous Love Affairs
Le Village englouti
If Paris Were Told to Us
The Marriage of Chiffon
All Movies (57)
- Que personne ne sorte1964 · as Police director
- Crooks in Clover1963 · as Louis « le Mexicain »
- Horace 621963 · as Old Horace
- The Hideout1962 · as Garnier, director
- Secret File 14131961 · as Docteur Pira
- Famous Love Affairs1961 · as Hans, le bourreau
- Première brigade criminelle1961 · as Commissioner Masson
- ¿Pena de muerte?1961 · as Pablo's father
- La tricheuse1960
- La P..... sentimentale1958 · as Pierre Berger
- Life Together1958 · as Le docteur Henri Girane
- Le Misanthrope1958 · as Alceste
- The Seventh Commandment1957 · as Gilbert Odet
- All the World's Memory1956 · as Self / Narrator (voice)
- Plucking the Daisy1956 · as General Dumont
- If Paris Were Told to Us1956 · as Richelieu
- Napoleon1955 · as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- The Count of Bragelonne1954 · as d'Artagnan
- Ulysses1954 · as Alicinous
- Anna1951 · as Professor Ferri
- Julie de Carneilhan1950 · as Léon de Carneilhan
- The Farm of Seven Sins1949 · as Paul-Louis Courier
- 56, rue Pigalle1949 · as Jean Vigneron
- Trafiquants de la mer1947 · as L'inspecteur principal Gardy
- La dernière chevauchée1947 · as André Valérian
- Rumors1947 · as Jean
- Women's Games1946 · as Stanislas
- Father Serge1945
- The Great Pack1945 · as Côme de Lambrefaut
- Night Shift1944 · as Pierre Jansen
- Le bal des passants1944 · as Claude Amadieu
- Sowing the Wind1944 · as The sculptor Bruno Horp
- Pierre and Jean1943 · as Marchat
- Malaria1943
- Secrets1943 · as Pierre
- White Wings1943 · as Gérard Clairval
- Twisted Mistress1942 · as Guy Carbonnel
- The Marriage of Chiffon1942 · as Max de Bray
- Boléro1942 · as Georges
- African Diary1940 · as Le lieutenant Parent
- Two Women1940 · as Gomar
- Yamilé Under the Cedars1939 · as Osman Hel Hussein
- Behind the Facade1939 · as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
- Return at Dawn1938 · as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
- Marked Girls1938 · as Lawyer
- Rail Pirates1938 · as Rolland
- Le cœur dispose1937 · as Baron Houzier
- Bach the Detective1936 · as Stefani
- Lucrezia Borgia1935 · as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
- Un homme de trop à bord1935 · as Clay
- The King of the Champs-Élysées1934 · as Gangster
- 3 of the navy1934
- L’Or1934 · as Malescot
- La Belle de Nuit1934 · as Jean Fournier
- The Ironmaster1933 · as Gaston de Bligny
- Danton1932
- Mon amant l'assassin1932 · as Bondizi
All TV Shows (2)
- Au plaisir de Dieu1977 · as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
- Le Village englouti1976 · as Alphonse Delamoniaz