Jacques Dumesnil
Acting
1903-11-09 · 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
Au plaisir de Dieu
1977 · Series
Le Village englouti
1976 · Series
Que personne ne sorte
1964 · Movie
Crooks in Clover
1963 · Movie
Horace 62
1963 · Movie
The Hideout
1962 · Movie
Secret File 1413
1961 · Movie
Famous Love Affairs
1961 · Movie
Première brigade criminelle
1961 · Movie
¿Pena de muerte?
1961 · Movie
La tricheuse
1960 · Movie
La P..... sentimentale
1958 · Movie
Life Together
1958 · Movie
Le Misanthrope
1958 · Movie
The Seventh Commandment
1957 · Movie
All the World's Memory
1956 · Movie
Plucking the Daisy
1956 · Movie
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956 · Movie
Napoleon
1955 · Movie
The Count of Bragelonne
1954 · Movie
Ulysses
1954 · Movie
Anna
1951 · Movie
Julie de Carneilhan
1950 · Movie
The Farm of Seven Sins
1949 · Movie
56, rue Pigalle
1949 · Movie
Trafiquants de la mer
1947 · Movie
La Dernière chevauchée
1947 · Movie
Rumors
1947 · Movie
Women's Games
1946 · Movie
Father Serge
1945 · Movie
The Great Pack
1945 · Movie
Night Shift
1944 · Movie
Le bal des passants
1944 · Movie
Sowing the Wind
1944 · Movie
Pierre and Jean
1943 · Movie
Malaria
1943 · Movie
Secrets
1943 · Movie
White Wings
1943 · Movie
Twisted Mistress
1942 · Movie
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942 · Movie
Boléro
1942 · Movie
African Diary
1940 · Movie
Two Women
1940 · Movie
Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939 · Movie
Behind the Facade
1939 · Movie
Return at Dawn
1938 · Movie
Marked Girls
1938 · Movie
Rail Pirates
1938 · Movie
Le cœur dispose
1937 · Movie
Bach the Detective
1936 · Movie
Lucrezia Borgia
1935 · Movie
Un homme de trop à bord
1935 · Movie
The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934 · Movie
3 of the navy
1934 · Movie
L’Or
1934 · Movie
La Belle de Nuit
1934 · Movie
The Ironmaster
1933 · Movie
Danton
1932 · Movie
Mon amant l'assassin
1932 · Movie