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