- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 9, 1903
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- May 8, 1998
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 o…
Filmography
tvAu plaisir de Dieu
1977 · Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
tvLe Village englouti
1976 · Alphonse Delamoniaz
movieQue personne ne sorte
1964 · Police director
movieCrooks in Clover
1963 · Louis « le Mexicain »
movieHorace 62
1963 · Old Horace
movieThe Hideout
1962 · Garnier, director
movieSecret File 1413
1961 · Docteur Pira
movieFamous Love Affairs
1961 · Hans, le bourreau
moviePremière brigade criminelle
1961 · Commissioner Masson
movie¿Pena de muerte?
1961 · Pablo's father
movieLa tricheuse
1960
movieLa P..... sentimentale
1958 · Pierre Berger
movieLife Together
1958 · Le docteur Henri Girane
Le Misanthrope
movieLe Misanthrope
1958 · Alceste
movieThe Seventh Commandment
1957 · Gilbert Odet
movieAll the World's Memory
1956 · Self / Narrator (voice)
moviePlucking the Daisy
1956 · General Dumont
movieIf Paris Were Told to Us
1956 · Richelieu
movieNapoleon
1955 · Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
movieThe Count of Bragelonne
1954 · d'Artagnan
movieUlysses
1954 · Alicinous
movieAnna
1951 · Professor Ferri
movieJulie de Carneilhan
1950 · Léon de Carneilhan
movieThe Farm of Seven Sins
1949 · Paul-Louis Courier
movie56, rue Pigalle
1949 · Jean Vigneron
movieTrafiquants de la mer
1947 · L'inspecteur principal Gardy
movieLa dernière chevauchée
1947 · André Valérian
Rumors
movieRumors
1947 · Jean
movieWomen's Games
1946 · Stanislas
movieFather Serge
1945
movieThe Great Pack
1945 · Côme de Lambrefaut
movieNight Shift
1944 · Pierre Jansen
movieLe bal des passants
1944 · Claude Amadieu
movieSowing the Wind
1944 · The sculptor Bruno Horp
moviePierre and Jean
1943 · Marchat
movieMalaria
1943
movieSecrets
1943 · Pierre
movieWhite Wings
1943 · Gérard Clairval
movieTwisted Mistress
1942 · Guy Carbonnel
movieThe Marriage of Chiffon
1942 · Max de Bray
movieBoléro
1942 · Georges
movieAfrican Diary
1940 · Le lieutenant Parent
movieTwo Women
1940 · Gomar
movieYamilé Under the Cedars
1939 · Osman Hel Hussein
movieBehind the Facade
1939 · Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
movieReturn at Dawn
1938 · Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
movieMarked Girls
1938 · Lawyer
movieRail Pirates
1938 · Rolland
movieLe cœur dispose
1937 · Baron Houzier
movieBach the Detective
1936 · Stefani
movieLucrezia Borgia
1935 · Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
movieUn homme de trop à bord
1935 · Clay
movieThe King of the Champs-Élysées
1934 · Gangster
3 of the navy
movie3 of the navy
1934
movieL’Or
1934 · Malescot
movieLa Belle de Nuit
1934 · Jean Fournier
movieThe Ironmaster
1933 · Gaston de Bligny
movieDanton
1932
movieMon amant l'assassin
1932 · Bondizi