Place of Birth:
Paris, France
Date of Birth:
11/9/1903
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.
Crooks in Clover
56, rue Pigalle
Plucking the Daisy
Julie de Carneilhan
Mon amant l'assassin
Danton
3 of the navy
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Lucrezia Borgia
Bach the Detective
Le cœur dispose
Marked Girls
Behind the Facade
Twisted Mistress
White Wings
Malaria
Sowing the Wind
Le bal des passants
Father Serge
Women's Games
Anna
The Hideout
The Marriage of Chiffon
African Diary
Que personne ne sorte
Trafiquants de la mer
La P..... sentimentale
Life Together
The Great Pack
La tricheuse
Rumors
The Seventh Commandment
Return at Dawn
Un homme de trop à bord
Boléro
Pierre and Jean
Rail Pirates
The Farm of Seven Sins
The Ironmaster
Famous Love Affairs
Secret File 1413
Première brigade criminelle
The Count of Bragelonne
Night Shift
¿Pena de muerte?
All the World's Memory
La Belle de Nuit
Napoleon
La dernière chevauchée
Secrets
Two Women
L’or
Ulysses
If Paris Were Told to Us
Yamilé Under the Cedars
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