Jacques Dumesnil
Actor
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
Ulysses
as Alicinous 1954
All the World's Memory
as Self / Narrator (voice) 1956
Anna
as Professor Ferri 1951
Napoleon
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte 1955
Plucking the Daisy
as General Dumont 1956
Life Together
as Le docteur Henri Girane 1958
If Paris Were Told to Us
as Richelieu 1956
The Marriage of Chiffon
as Max de Bray 1942
56, rue Pigalle
as Jean Vigneron 1949
Lucrezia Borgia
as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano 1935
Return at Dawn
as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith' 1938
Pierre and Jean
as Marchat 1943
The Farm of Seven Sins
as Paul-Louis Courier 1949
Behind the Facade
as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player 1939
Twisted Mistress
as Guy Carbonnel 1942
The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934