Jacques Dumesnil
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
Credits
- 1977 · Au plaisir de Dieu as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
- 1976 · Le Village englouti as Alphonse Delamoniaz
- 1964 · Que personne ne sorte as Le directeur de la police
- 1963 · Crooks in Clover as Louis « le Mexicain »
- 1963 · Horace 62 as Old Horace
- 1962 · The Hideout as Garnier, le directeur
- 1961 · 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
- 1960 · La tricheuse as
- 1958 · La P..... sentimentale as
- 1958 · Life Together as Le docteur Henri Girane
- 1957 · The Seventh Commandment as Gilbert Odet
- 1956 · 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
- 1955 · Napoleon as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- 1954 · Count of Bragelonne as d'Artagnan
- 1954 · Ulysses as Alicinous
- 1951 · Anna as Professor Ferri
- 1950 · Julie de Carneilhan as Léon de Carneilhan
- 1949 · The Farm of Seven Sins as Paul-Louis Courier
- 1949 · 56, rue Pigalle as Jean Vigneron
- 1947 · Trafiquants de la mer as L'inspecteur principal Gardy
- 1947 · La dernière chevauchée as
- 1947 · Rumors as Jean
- 1946 · Women's Games as Stanislas
- 1945 · Father Serge as
- 1945 · The Great Pack as Côme de Lambrefaut
- 1944 · Night Shift as Pierre Jansen
- 1944 · Le bal des passants as Claude Amadieu
- 1944 · Sowing the Wind as The sculptor Bruno Horp
- 1943 · Pierre and Jean as Marchat
- 1943 · Malaria as
- 1943 · Secrets as Pierre
- 1943 · White Wings as Gérard Clairval
- 1942 · Twisted Mistress as
- 1942 · The Marriage of Chiffon as Max de Bray
- 1942 · Boléro as Georges
- 1940 · African Diary as Le lieutenant Parent
- 1940 · Two Women as Gomar
- 1939 · Yamilé Under the Cedars as Osman Hel Hussein
- 1939 · Behind the Facade as Albert Durant, courtier à la Bourse et joueur de Poker
- 1938 · Return at Dawn as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
- 1938 · Marked Girls as
- 1938 · Rail Pirates as Rolland
- 1937 · Le cœur dispose as Baron Houzier
- 1936 · Bach the Detective as Stefani
- 1935 · Lucrezia Borgia as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
- 1935 · Un homme de trop à bord as Clay
- 1934 · The King of the Champs-Élysées as
- 1934 · 3 of the navy as
- 1934 · L’or as Malescot
- 1934 · La Belle de Nuit as Jean Fournier
- 1933 · The Ironmaster as Gaston de Bligny
- 1932 · Danton as
- 1932 · My lover the assassin as