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Jacques Dumesnil

Acting Born Nov 9, 1903 Paris, France 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Crooks in Clover

as Louis « le Mexicain »
Film

Famous Love Affairs

as Hans, le bourreau
Film

Secret File 1413

as Docteur Pira

Full filmography

  • Ulysses (1954) as Alicinous
  • Napoleon (1955) as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
  • Au plaisir de Dieu (1977) as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
  • Crooks in Clover (1963) as Louis « le Mexicain »
  • Le Village englouti (1976) as Alphonse Delamoniaz
  • Lucrezia Borgia (1935) as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
  • Twisted Mistress (1942) as Guy Carbonnel
  • All the World's Memory (1956) as Self / Narrator (voice)
  • Famous Love Affairs (1961) as Hans, le bourreau
  • If Paris Were Told to Us (1956) as Richelieu
  • Plucking the Daisy (1956) as General Dumont
  • Secret File 1413 (1961) as Docteur Pira
  • Anna (1951) as Professor Ferri
  • Le bal des passants (1944) as Claude Amadieu
  • Trafiquants de la mer (1947) as L'inspecteur principal Gardy
  • Return at Dawn (1938) as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
  • Danton (1932)
  • The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) as Paul-Louis Courier
  • The Count of Bragelonne (1954) as d'Artagnan
  • Que personne ne sorte (1964) as Police director
  • The Marriage of Chiffon (1942) as Max de Bray
  • The Great Pack (1945) as Côme de Lambrefaut
  • Life Together (1958) as Le docteur Henri Girane
  • Julie de Carneilhan (1950) as Léon de Carneilhan