Jacques Dumesnil
Date of birth: 1903-11-09
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Жак Дюмениль, Marie Émile Eugène André Joly
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.
Movie Credits
Crooks in Clover
1963-11-27
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortu
56, rue Pigalle
1949-03-18
Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de
Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest.
Julie de Carneilhan
1950-04-21
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
Mon amant l'assassin
1932-06-10
An eccentric woman is determined to marry a murderer. Her admirer will have to become a murderer in
Danton
1932-10-14
Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer a
3 of the navy
1934-10-19
The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, ar
The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934-12-10
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
Lucrezia Borgia
1935-12-20
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother,
Bach the Detective
1936-11-20
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency
Le cœur dispose
1937-05-14
An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick n
Marked Girls
1938-10-12
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release,
Behind the Facade
1939-03-14
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elder
Twisted Mistress
1942-08-14
Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals,
White Wings
1943-03-10
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothin
Malaria
1943-06-30
A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have o
Sowing the Wind
1944-03-16
A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is
Le bal des passants
1944-04-01
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for Ame
Father Serge
1945-09-04
An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out
Women's Games
1946-05-13
The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes
Anna
1951-12-20
The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't cho
The Hideout
1962-09-21
Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942-08-06
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with
African Diary
1940-06-25
During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the
Que personne ne sorte
1964-07-29
Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassado
Trafiquants de la mer
1947-12-19
A gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and arrests an
La P..... sentimentale
1958-10-24
A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Life Together
1958-09-24
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on
The Great Pack
1945-07-17
Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him t
La tricheuse
1960-01-01
Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook.
Rumors
1947-03-25
Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion nam
The Seventh Commandment
1957-02-01
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susce
Return at Dawn
1938-11-18
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty you
Un homme de trop à bord
1935-12-06
Boléro
1942-03-25
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a musi
Pierre and Jean
1943-12-29
Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in
Rail Pirates
1938-01-19
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the inces
The Farm of Seven Sins
1949-09-16
In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French m
The Ironmaster
1933-11-30
A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, b
Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Secret File 1413
1961-12-01
A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
Première brigade criminelle
1961-07-19
Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Cana
The Count of Bragelonne
1954-12-09
Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Ca
Night Shift
1944-04-19
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
¿Pena de muerte?
1961-01-01
Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawye
All the World's Memory
1956-11-01
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processe
La Belle de Nuit
1934-03-02
Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La bel
Napoleon
1955-03-25
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T
La dernière chevauchée
1947-03-28
A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take
Secrets
1943-03-17
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, b
Two Women
1940-05-16
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow he
L’Or
1934-06-01
Ulysses
1954-10-06
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home a
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956-01-27
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its found
Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939-06-01
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off w
Horace 62
1963-04-24
Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curi
Le Misanthrope
1958-01-01