Jacques Dumesnil
- Acting
- November 9, 1903 · Paris, France
- May 8, 1998
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
- Au plaisir de Dieu · Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
- Le Village englouti · Alphonse Delamoniaz
- Que personne ne sorte · Police director
- Crooks in Clover · Louis « le Mexicain »
- Horace 62 · Old Horace
- The Hideout · Garnier, director
- Secret File 1413 · Docteur Pira
- Famous Love Affairs · Hans, le bourreau
- Première brigade criminelle · Commissioner Masson
- ¿Pena de muerte? · Pablo's father
- La tricheuse
- La P..... sentimentale · Pierre Berger
- Life Together · Le docteur Henri Girane
- Le Misanthrope · Alceste
- The Seventh Commandment · Gilbert Odet
- All the World's Memory · Self / Narrator (Voice)
- Plucking the Daisy · General Dumont
- If Paris Were Told to Us · Richelieu
- Napoleon · Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- The Count of Bragelonne · d'Artagnan
- Ulysses · Alcinous
- Anna · Professor Ferri
- Julie de Carneilhan · Léon de Carneilhan
- The Farm of Seven Sins · Paul-Louis Courier
- 56, rue Pigalle · Jean Vigneron
- Trafiquants de la mer · L'inspecteur principal Gardy
- La Dernière chevauchée · André Valérian
- Rumors · Jean
- Women's Games · Stanislas
- Father Serge
- The Great Pack · Côme de Lambrefaut
- Night Shift · Pierre Jansen
- Le bal des passants · Claude Amadieu
- Sowing the Wind · The sculptor Bruno Horp
- Pierre and Jean · Marchat
- Malaria
- Secrets · Pierre
- White Wings · Gérard Clairval
- Twisted Mistress · Guy Carbonnel
- The Marriage of Chiffon · Max de Bray
- Boléro · Georges
- African Diary · Le lieutenant Parent
- Two Women · Gomar
- Yamilé Under the Cedars · Osman Hel Hussein
- Behind the Facade · Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
- Return at Dawn · Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
- Marked Girls · Lawyer
- Rail Pirates · Rolland
- Le cœur dispose · Baron Houzier
- Bach the Detective · Stefani
- Lucrezia Borgia · Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
- Un homme de trop à bord · Clay
- The King of the Champs-Élysées · Gangster
- 3 of the navy
- L’Or · Malescot
- La Belle de Nuit · Jean Fournier
- The Ironmaster · Gaston de Bligny
- Danton
- Mon amant l'assassin · Bondizi