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