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