Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 09, 1903
Died
May 08, 1998
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
59 titles
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
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