Jacques Dumesnil
Born
November 9, 1903
Died
May 8, 1998 (94 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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.
Au plaisir de Dieu
Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil · (6 episodes)
1977
Le Village englouti
Alphonse Delamoniaz · (30 episodes)
1976
Que personne ne sorte
Police director
1964
Crooks in Clover
Louis « le Mexicain »
1963
Horace 62
Old Horace
1963
The Hideout
Garnier, director
1962
Secret File 1413
Docteur Pira
1961
Famous Love Affairs
Hans, le bourreau
1961
Première brigade criminelle
Commissioner Masson
1961
¿Pena de muerte?
1961
La tricheuse
1960
La P..... sentimentale
Pierre Berger
1958
Life Together
Le docteur Henri Girane
1958
The Seventh Commandment
Gilbert Odet
1957
All the World's Memory
Self / Narrator (voice)
1956
Plucking the Daisy
General Dumont
1956
If Paris Were Told to Us
Richelieu
1956
Napoleon
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
1955
The Count of Bragelonne
d'Artagnan
1954
Ulysses
Alicinous
1954
Anna
Professor Ferri
1951
Julie de Carneilhan
Léon de Carneilhan
1950
The Farm of Seven Sins
Paul-Louis Courier
1949
56, rue Pigalle
Jean Vigneron
1949
Trafiquants de la mer
L'inspecteur principal Gardy
1947
La dernière chevauchée
1947
Rumors
Jean
1947
Women's Games
Stanislas
1946
Father Serge
1945
The Great Pack
Côme de Lambrefaut
1945
Night Shift
Pierre Jansen
1944
Le bal des passants
Claude Amadieu
1944
Sowing the Wind
The sculptor Bruno Horp
1944
Pierre and Jean
Marchat
1943
Malaria
1943
Secrets
Pierre
1943
White Wings
Gérard Clairval
1943
Twisted Mistress
Guy Carbonnel
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
Max de Bray
1942
Boléro
Georges
1942
African Diary
Le lieutenant Parent
1940
Two Women
Gomar
1940
Yamilé Under the Cedars
Osman Hel Hussein
1939
Behind the Facade
Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
1939
Return at Dawn
Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
1938
Marked Girls
1938
Rail Pirates
Rolland
1938
Le cœur dispose
Baron Houzier
1937
Bach the Detective
Stefani
1936
Lucrezia Borgia
Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
1935
Un homme de trop à bord
Clay
1935
The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934
3 of the navy
1934
L’Or
Malescot
1934
La Belle de Nuit
Jean Fournier
1934
The Ironmaster
Gaston de Bligny
1933
Danton
1932
Mon amant l'assassin
Bondizi
1932