Jacques Dumesnil
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.
Acted in
Au plaisir de Dieu
1977
as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
Le Village englouti
1976
as Alphonse Delamoniaz
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, le directeur
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
La tricheuse
1960
La P..... sentimentale
1958
Life Together
1958
as Le docteur Henri Girane
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 Alicinous
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
Rumors
1947
as Jean
Women's Games
1946
as Stanislas
Father Serge
1945
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
Secrets
1943
as Pierre
White Wings
1943
as Gérard Clairval
Twisted Mistress
1942
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
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
3 of the navy
1934
L’or
1934
as Malescot
La Belle de Nuit
1934
as Jean Fournier
The Ironmaster
1933
as Gaston de Bligny
Danton
1932
Mon amant l'assassin
1932
as Bondizi