Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 9, 1903
Place of Birth:
Paris, France
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Que personne ne sorte | Police director |
| 1963 | Crooks in Clover | Louis « le Mexicain » |
| 1963 | Horace 62 | Old Horace |
| 1962 | The Hideout | Garnier, director |
| 1961 | Famous Love Affairs | Hans, le bourreau |
| 1961 | Secret File 1413 | Docteur Pira |
| 1961 | Première brigade criminelle | Commissioner Masson |
| 1961 | ¿Pena de muerte? | |
| 1960 | La tricheuse | |
| 1958 | La P..... sentimentale | Pierre Berger |
| 1958 | Life Together | Le docteur Henri Girane |
| 1957 | The Seventh Commandment | Gilbert Odet |
| 1956 | Plucking the Daisy | General Dumont |
| 1956 | All the World's Memory | Self / Narrator (voice) |
| 1956 | If Paris Were Told to Us | Richelieu |
| 1955 | Napoleon | Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte |
| 1954 | The Count of Bragelonne | d'Artagnan |
| 1954 | Ulysses | Alicinous |
| 1951 | Anna | Professor Ferri |
| 1950 | Julie de Carneilhan | Léon de Carneilhan |
| 1949 | 56, rue Pigalle | Jean Vigneron |
| 1949 | The Farm of Seven Sins | Paul-Louis Courier |
| 1947 | Trafiquants de la mer | L'inspecteur principal Gardy |
| 1947 | Rumors | Jean |
| 1947 | La dernière chevauchée | |
| 1946 | Women's Games | Stanislas |
| 1945 | Father Serge | |
| 1945 | The Great Pack | Côme de Lambrefaut |
| 1944 | Le bal des passants | Claude Amadieu |
| 1944 | Sowing the Wind | The sculptor Bruno Horp |
| 1944 | Night Shift | Pierre Jansen |
| 1943 | White Wings | Gérard Clairval |
| 1943 | Malaria | |
| 1943 | Pierre and Jean | Marchat |
| 1943 | Secrets | Pierre |
| 1942 | Twisted Mistress | Guy Carbonnel |
| 1942 | The Marriage of Chiffon | Max de Bray |
| 1942 | Boléro | Georges |
| 1940 | African Diary | Le lieutenant Parent |
| 1940 | Two Women | Gomar |
| 1939 | Behind the Facade | Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player |
| 1939 | Yamilé Under the Cedars | Osman Hel Hussein |
| 1938 | Marked Girls | |
| 1938 | Return at Dawn | Dick Farmer aka 'Keith' |
| 1938 | Rail Pirates | Rolland |
| 1937 | Le cœur dispose | Baron Houzier |
| 1936 | Bach the Detective | Stefani |
| 1935 | Lucrezia Borgia | Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano |
| 1935 | Un homme de trop à bord | Clay |
| 1934 | The King of the Champs-Élysées | |
| 1934 | 3 of the navy | |
| 1934 | La Belle de Nuit | Jean Fournier |
| 1934 | L’Or | Malescot |
| 1933 | The Ironmaster | Gaston de Bligny |
| 1932 | Mon amant l'assassin | Bondizi |
| 1932 | Danton |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Au plaisir de Dieu | Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil |
| 1976 | Le Village englouti | Alphonse Delamoniaz |