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