Acting
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.
Filmography
Au plaisir de Dieu
Series · 1977
Le Village englouti
Series · 1976
Que personne ne sorte
Film · 1964
Crooks in Clover
Film · 1963
Horace 62
Film · 1963
The Hideout
Film · 1962
Famous Love Affairs
Film · 1961
Secret File 1413
Film · 1961
Première brigade criminelle
Film · 1961
¿Pena de muerte?
Film · 1961
La tricheuse
Film · 1960
La P..... sentimentale
Film · 1958
Life Together
Film · 1958
Le Misanthrope
Film · 1958
The Seventh Commandment
Film · 1957
Plucking the Daisy
Film · 1956
All the World's Memory
Film · 1956
If Paris Were Told to Us
Film · 1956
Napoleon
Film · 1955
The Count of Bragelonne
Film · 1954
Ulysses
Film · 1954
Anna
Film · 1951
Julie de Carneilhan
Film · 1950
56, rue Pigalle
Film · 1949
The Farm of Seven Sins
Film · 1949
Trafiquants de la mer
Film · 1947
Rumors
Film · 1947
La Dernière chevauchée
Film · 1947
Women's Games
Film · 1946
Father Serge
Film · 1945
The Great Pack
Film · 1945
Sowing the Wind
Film · 1944
Le bal des passants
Film · 1944
Night Shift
Film · 1944
White Wings
Film · 1943
Malaria
Film · 1943
Pierre and Jean
Film · 1943
Secrets
Film · 1943
Twisted Mistress
Film · 1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
Film · 1942
Boléro
Film · 1942
African Diary
Film · 1940
Two Women
Film · 1940
Behind the Facade
Film · 1939
Yamilé Under the Cedars
Film · 1939
Marked Girls
Film · 1938
Return at Dawn
Film · 1938
Rail Pirates
Film · 1938
Le cœur dispose
Film · 1937
Bach the Detective
Film · 1936
Lucrezia Borgia
Film · 1935
Un homme de trop à bord
Film · 1935
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Film · 1934
3 of the navy
Film · 1934
La Belle de Nuit
Film · 1934
L’Or
Film · 1934
The Ironmaster
Film · 1933
Mon amant l'assassin
Film · 1932
Danton
Film · 1932