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.
Crooks in Clover
(Louis « le Mexicain »)
56, rue Pigalle
(Jean Vigneron)
Plucking the Daisy
(General Dumont)
Julie de Carneilhan
(Léon de Carneilhan)
My lover the assassin
Danton
The King of the Champs-Élysées
3 of the navy
Lucrezia Borgia
(Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano)
Bach the Detective
(Stefani)
Le cœur dispose
(Baron Houzier)
Marked Girls
Behind the Facade
(Albert Durant, courtier à la Bourse et joueur de Poker)
Twisted Mistress
White Wings
(Gérard Clairval)
Malaria
Le bal des passants
(Claude Amadieu)
Sowing the Wind
(The sculptor Bruno Horp)
Father Serge
Women's Games
(Stanislas)
Anna
(Professor Ferri)
The Hideout
(Garnier, le directeur)
The Marriage of Chiffon
(Max de Bray)
African Diary
(Le lieutenant Parent)
Que personne ne sorte
(Le directeur de la police)
Trafiquants de la mer
(L'inspecteur principal Gardy)
La P..... sentimentale
Life Together
(Le docteur Henri Girane)
The Great Pack
(Côme de Lambrefaut)
La tricheuse
Rumors
(Jean)
The Seventh Commandment
(Gilbert Odet)
Return at Dawn
(Dick Farmer aka 'Keith')
Un homme de trop à bord
(Clay)
Boléro
(Georges)
Pierre and Jean
(Marchat)
Rail Pirates
(Rolland)
The Farm of Seven Sins
(Paul-Louis Courier)
The Ironmaster
(Gaston de Bligny)
Famous Love Affairs
(Hans, le bourreau)
Secret File 1413
(Docteur Pira)
Première brigade criminelle
(Commissioner Masson)
Count of Bragelonne
(d'Artagnan)
Night Shift
(Pierre Jansen)
¿Pena de muerte?
All the World's Memory
(Self / Narrator (voice))
La Belle de Nuit
(Jean Fournier)
Napoleon
(Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)
La dernière chevauchée
Secrets
(Pierre)
Two Women
(Gomar)
L’or
(Malescot)
Ulysses
(Alicinous)
If Paris Were Told to Us
(Richelieu)
Yamilé Under the Cedars
(Osman Hel Hussein)
Horace 62
(Old Horace)
Le Village englouti
(Alphonse Delamoniaz)
Au plaisir de Dieu
(Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil)