Jacques Dumesnil
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 9, 1903
- Died
- May 8, 1998 (aged 94)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Credits
- 59
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.
Known for
Crooks in Clover
1963Movie
Louis « le Mexicain »
Ulysses
1954Movie
Alcinous
All the World's Memory
1956Movie
Self / Narrator (voice)
Anna
1951Movie
Professor Ferri
Napoleon
1955Movie
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Plucking the Daisy
1956Movie
General Dumont
Filmography
Au plaisir de Dieu
1977TV
Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
Le Village englouti
1976TV
Alphonse Delamoniaz
Que personne ne sorte
1964Movie
Police director
Crooks in Clover
1963Movie
Louis « le Mexicain »
Horace 62
1963Movie
Old Horace
The Hideout
1962Movie
Garnier, director
Secret File 1413
1961Movie
Docteur Pira
Famous Love Affairs
1961Movie
Hans, le bourreau
Première brigade criminelle
1961Movie
Commissioner Masson
¿Pena de muerte?
1961Movie
Pablo's father
La tricheuse
1960Movie
La P..... sentimentale
1958Movie
Pierre Berger
Life Together
1958Movie
Le docteur Henri Girane
Le Misanthrope
1958Movie
Alceste
The Seventh Commandment
1957Movie
Gilbert Odet
All the World's Memory
1956Movie
Self / Narrator (voice)
Plucking the Daisy
1956Movie
General Dumont
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956Movie
Richelieu
Napoleon
1955Movie
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
The Count of Bragelonne
1954Movie
d'Artagnan
Ulysses
1954Movie
Alcinous
Anna
1951Movie
Professor Ferri
Julie de Carneilhan
1950Movie
Léon de Carneilhan
The Farm of Seven Sins
1949Movie
Paul-Louis Courier
56, rue Pigalle
1949Movie
Jean Vigneron
Trafiquants de la mer
1947Movie
L'inspecteur principal Gardy
La Dernière chevauchée
1947Movie
André Valérian
Rumors
1947Movie
Jean
Women's Games
1946Movie
Stanislas
Father Serge
1945Movie
The Great Pack
1945Movie
Côme de Lambrefaut
Night Shift
1944Movie
Pierre Jansen
Le bal des passants
1944Movie
Claude Amadieu
Sowing the Wind
1944Movie
The sculptor Bruno Horp
Pierre and Jean
1943Movie
Marchat
Malaria
1943Movie
Secrets
1943Movie
Pierre
White Wings
1943Movie
Gérard Clairval
Twisted Mistress
1942Movie
Guy Carbonnel
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942Movie
Max de Bray
Boléro
1942Movie
Georges
African Diary
1940Movie
Le lieutenant Parent
Two Women
1940Movie
Gomar
Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939Movie
Osman Hel Hussein
Behind the Facade
1939Movie
Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
Return at Dawn
1938Movie
Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
Marked Girls
1938Movie
Lawyer
Rail Pirates
1938Movie
Rolland
Le cœur dispose
1937Movie
Baron Houzier
Bach the Detective
1936Movie
Stefani
Lucrezia Borgia
1935Movie
Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
Un homme de trop à bord
1935Movie
Clay
The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934Movie
Gangster
3 of the navy
1934Movie
L’Or
1934Movie
Malescot
La Belle de Nuit
1934Movie
Jean Fournier
The Ironmaster
1933Movie
Gaston de Bligny
Danton
1932Movie
Mon amant l'assassin
1932Movie
Bondizi