
Jacques Dumesnil
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.
Acting (54 movies)

Crooks in Clover
1963

56, rue Pigalle
1949

Plucking the Daisy
1956

Julie de Carneilhan
1950

Mon amant l'assassin
1932

Danton
1932

The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934

Lucrezia Borgia
1935

Bach the Detective
1936

Le cœur dispose
1937

Marked Girls
1938

Behind the Facade
1939

Twisted Mistress
1942

White Wings
1943

Malaria
1943

Sowing the Wind
1944

Le bal des passants
1944

Father Serge
1945

Women's Games
1946

Anna
1951

The Hideout
1962

The Marriage of Chiffon
1942

African Diary
1940

Que personne ne sorte
1964

Trafiquants de la mer
1947

La P..... sentimentale
1958

Life Together
1958

The Great Pack
1945

La tricheuse
1960

The Seventh Commandment
1957

Return at Dawn
1938

Un homme de trop à bord
1935

Boléro
1942

Pierre and Jean
1943

Rail Pirates
1938

The Farm of Seven Sins
1949

The Ironmaster
1933

Famous Love Affairs
1961

Secret File 1413
1961

Première brigade criminelle
1961

The Count of Bragelonne
1954

Night Shift
1944

¿Pena de muerte?
1961

All the World's Memory
1956

La Belle de Nuit
1934

Napoleon
1955

La dernière chevauchée
1947

Secrets
1943

Two Women
1940

L’Or
1934

Ulysses
1954

If Paris Were Told to Us
1956

Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939

Horace 62
1963
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