Jacques Dumesnil
Acting • Born 1903-11-09 – Died 1998-05-08
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.
Filmography
59 credits
Crooks in Clover
Movie • 1963
Louis « le Mexicain »
56, rue Pigalle
Movie • 1949
Jean Vigneron
Plucking the Daisy
Movie • 1956
General Dumont
Julie de Carneilhan
Movie • 1950
Léon de Carneilhan
Mon amant l'assassin
Movie • 1932
Bondizi
Danton
Movie • 1932
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Movie • 1934
Gangster
3 of the navy
Movie • 1934
Lucrezia Borgia
Movie • 1935
Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
Bach the Detective
Movie • 1936
Stefani
Le cœur dispose
Movie • 1937
Baron Houzier
Marked Girls
Movie • 1938
Lawyer
Behind the Facade
Movie • 1939
Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
Twisted Mistress
Movie • 1942
Guy Carbonnel
White Wings
Movie • 1943
Gérard Clairval
Malaria
Movie • 1943
Sowing the Wind
Movie • 1944
The sculptor Bruno Horp
Le bal des passants
Movie • 1944
Claude Amadieu
Father Serge
Movie • 1945
Women's Games
Movie • 1946
Stanislas
Anna
Movie • 1951
Professor Ferri
The Hideout
Movie • 1962
Garnier, director
The Marriage of Chiffon
Movie • 1942
Max de Bray
African Diary
Movie • 1940
Le lieutenant Parent
Que personne ne sorte
Movie • 1964
Police director
Trafiquants de la mer
Movie • 1947
L'inspecteur principal Gardy
La P..... sentimentale
Movie • 1958
Pierre Berger
Life Together
Movie • 1958
Le docteur Henri Girane
The Great Pack
Movie • 1945
Côme de Lambrefaut
La tricheuse
Movie • 1960
Rumors
Movie • 1947
Jean
The Seventh Commandment
Movie • 1957
Gilbert Odet
Return at Dawn
Movie • 1938
Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
Un homme de trop à bord
Movie • 1935
Clay
Boléro
Movie • 1942
Georges
Pierre and Jean
Movie • 1943
Marchat
Rail Pirates
Movie • 1938
Rolland
The Farm of Seven Sins
Movie • 1949
Paul-Louis Courier
The Ironmaster
Movie • 1933
Gaston de Bligny
Famous Love Affairs
Movie • 1961
Hans, le bourreau
Secret File 1413
Movie • 1961
Docteur Pira
Première brigade criminelle
Movie • 1961
Commissioner Masson
The Count of Bragelonne
Movie • 1954
d'Artagnan
Night Shift
Movie • 1944
Pierre Jansen
¿Pena de muerte?
Movie • 1961
Pablo's father
All the World's Memory
Movie • 1956
Self / Narrator (voice)
La Belle de Nuit
Movie • 1934
Jean Fournier
Napoleon
Movie • 1955
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
La dernière chevauchée
Movie • 1947
André Valérian
Secrets
Movie • 1943
Pierre
Two Women
Movie • 1940
Gomar
L’Or
Movie • 1934
Malescot
Ulysses
Movie • 1954
Alicinous
If Paris Were Told to Us
Movie • 1956
Richelieu
Yamilé Under the Cedars
Movie • 1939
Osman Hel Hussein
Horace 62
Movie • 1963
Old Horace
Le Misanthrope
Movie • 1958
Alceste
Le Village englouti
TV • 1976
Alphonse Delamoniaz
Au plaisir de Dieu
TV • 1977
Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil