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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1903-11-09

Died: 1998-05-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Mon amant l'assassin	Bondizi	0
2	1932	Danton		0
3	1933	The Ironmaster	Gaston de Bligny	55
4	1934	La Belle de Nuit	Jean Fournier	35
5	1934	L’or	Malescot	25
6	1934	3 of the navy		0
7	1934	The King of the Champs-Élysées		55
8	1935	Un homme de trop à bord	Clay	0
9	1935	Lucrezia Borgia	Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano	53
10	1936	Bach the Detective	Stefani	0
11	1937	Le cœur dispose	Baron Houzier	0
12	1938	Rail Pirates	Rolland	60
13	1938	Marked Girls		50
14	1938	Return at Dawn	Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'	70
15	1939	Behind the Facade	Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player	78
16	1939	Yamilé Under the Cedars	Osman Hel Hussein	0
17	1940	Two Women	Gomar	70
18	1940	African Diary	Le lieutenant Parent	58
19	1942	Boléro	Georges	60
20	1942	The Marriage of Chiffon	Max de Bray	60
21	1942	Twisted Mistress		64
22	1943	White Wings	Gérard Clairval	0
23	1943	Secrets	Pierre	70
24	1943	Malaria		0
25	1943	Pierre and Jean	Marchat	64
26	1944	Sowing the Wind	The sculptor Bruno Horp	0
27	1944	Le bal des passants	Claude Amadieu	0
28	1944	Night Shift	Pierre Jansen	0
29	1945	The Great Pack	Côme de Lambrefaut	50
30	1945	Father Serge		0
31	1946	Women's Games	Stanislas	0
32	1947	Rumors	Jean	0
33	1947	La dernière chevauchée		0
34	1947	Trafiquants de la mer	L'inspecteur principal Gardy	0
35	1949	56, rue Pigalle	Jean Vigneron	54
36	1949	The Farm of Seven Sins	Paul-Louis Courier	57
37	1950	Julie de Carneilhan	Léon de Carneilhan	0
38	1951	Anna	Professor Ferri	73
39	1954	Ulysses	Alicinous	65
40	1954	The Count of Bragelonne	d'Artagnan	52
41	1955	Napoleon	Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte	63
42	1956	If Paris Were Told to Us	Richelieu	58
43	1956	Plucking the Daisy	General Dumont	61
44	1956	All the World's Memory	Self / Narrator (voice)	70
45	1957	The Seventh Commandment	Gilbert Odet	0
46	1958	Life Together	Le docteur Henri Girane	61
47	1958	La P..... sentimentale	Pierre Berger	100
48	1960	La tricheuse		0
49	1961	¿Pena de muerte?		80
50	1961	Première brigade criminelle	Commissioner Masson	0
51	1961	Famous Love Affairs	Hans, le bourreau	42
52	1961	Secret File 1413	Docteur Pira	20
53	1962	The Hideout	Garnier, le directeur	0
54	1963	Horace 62	Old Horace	0
55	1963	Crooks in Clover	Louis « le Mexicain »	77
56	1964	Que personne ne sorte	Police director	50

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Le Village englouti	Alphonse Delamoniaz	0
2	1977	Au plaisir de Dieu	Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil	0