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.
Acting
Movie
Crooks in Clover
as Louis « le Mexicain »
1963
Movie
Ulysses
as Alicinous
1954
Movie
All the World's Memory
as Self / Narrator (voice)
1956
Movie
Anna
as Professor Ferri
1951
Movie
Napoleon
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
1955
Movie
Plucking the Daisy
as General Dumont
1956
Movie
Life Together
as Le docteur Henri Girane
1958
Movie
If Paris Were Told to Us
as Richelieu
1956
Movie
56, rue Pigalle
as Jean Vigneron
1949
Movie
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Max de Bray
1942
Movie
Lucrezia Borgia
as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
1935
Movie
Twisted Mistress
as Guy Carbonnel
1942
Movie
Return at Dawn
as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
1938
Movie
Pierre and Jean
as Marchat
1943
Movie
The Farm of Seven Sins
as Paul-Louis Courier
1949
Movie
Behind the Facade
as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
1939
Movie
Famous Love Affairs
as Hans, le bourreau
1961
Movie
The King of the Champs-Élysées
as Gangster
1934
Movie
The Count of Bragelonne
as d'Artagnan
1954
Movie
Marked Girls
as Lawyer
1938
Movie
African Diary
as Le lieutenant Parent
1940
Movie
Rail Pirates
as Rolland
1938
Movie
La Belle de Nuit
as Jean Fournier
1934
Movie
Que personne ne sorte
as Police director
1964