Adolphe Menjou
- Acting
- February 18, 1890 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- October 29, 1963
Biography
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory · Self
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- Pollyanna · Mr. Pendergast
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Fitch
- I Married a Woman · Frederick W. Sutton
- Target (US)
- Paths of Glory · Gen. George Broulard
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar · Self
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown · Arthur Martin
- Bundle of Joy · J. B. Merlin
- The Ambassador's Daughter · Senator Jonathan Carwright
- Timberjack · 'Sweetwater' Tilton
- The George Gobel Show · Self
- Man on a Tightrope · Fesker
- Your Favorite Story · Host
- The Sniper · Frank Kafka
- Across the Wide Missouri · Pierre
- The Tall Target · Caleb Jeffers
- To Please a Lady · Gregg
- What's My Line? · Self
- Dancing in the Dark · Melville Crossman
- My Dream Is Yours · Thomas Hutchins
- State of the Union · Jim Conover
- The Hucksters · Mr. Kimberly
- Mr. District Attorney · Craig Warren
- I'll Be Yours · J. Conrad Nelson
- The Bachelor's Daughters · Alexander Moody
- Heartbeat · Ambassador
- Man Alive · Kismet
- Step Lively · Wagner
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady · Tom Moran
- Hi Diddle Diddle · Hector Phyffe
- You Were Never Lovelier · Eduardo Acuña
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
- Syncopation · George Latimer
- Roxie Hart · Billy Flynn
- Father Takes a Wife · Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
- Road Show · Col. Carleton Carroway
- A Bill of Divorcement · Hilary Fairfield
- Turnabout · Phil Manning
- That's Right – You're Wrong · Stacey Delmore
- The Housekeeper's Daughter · Deakon Maxwell
- Golden Boy · Tom Moody
- King of the Turf · Jim Mason
- Thanks for Everything · J. B. Harcourt
- Letter of Introduction · John Mannering
- The Goldwyn Follies · Oliver Merlin
- Stage Door · Anthony Powell
- One Hundred Men and a Girl · John Cardwell
- Café Metropole · Monsieur Victor
- A Star Is Born · Oliver Niles
- One in a Million · Tad Spencer
- Wives Never Know · J. Hugh Ramsey
- Sing, Baby, Sing · Bruce Farraday
- The Milky Way · Gabby Sloan
- Broadway Gondolier · Professor Eduardo de Vinci
- Gold Diggers of 1935 · Nicolai Nicoleff
- The Mighty Barnum · Bailey Walsh
- The Human Side · Gregory Sheldon
- The Great Flirtation · Stephan Karpath
- Little Miss Marker · Sorrowful Jones
- The Trumpet Blows · Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
- Journal of a Crime · Paul Mollet
- Easy to Love · John
- Convention City · T.R. (Ted) Kent
- The Worst Woman in Paris? · Adolphe Ballou
- Morning Glory · Louis Easton
- The Circus Queen Murder · Thatcher Colt
- A Farewell to Arms · Major Rinaldi
- The Night Club Lady · Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- Diamond Cut Diamond · Dan McQueen
- Bachelor's Affairs · Andrew Hoyt
- Two White Arms · Maj. Carey Liston
- Prestige · Capt. Remy Bandoin
- Forbidden · Robert Grover
- Friends and Lovers · Captain Geoffrey Roberts
- The Great Lover · Paurel
- We’re Switching to Hollywood · Self
- Let Us Be Gay · Bob Brown
- The Front Page · Walter Burns