Jacques Dumesnil
Born November 09, 1903 (Age: 122)
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Paris, France
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.
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.
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Filmography
Que personne ne sorte
1964
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as Police director
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Age: 60
Crooks in Clover
1963
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as Louis « le Mexicain »
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Age: 60
Horace 62
1963
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as Old Horace
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Age: 59
The Hideout
1962
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as Garnier, director
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Age: 58
Secret File 1413
1961
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as Docteur Pira
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Age: 58
Famous Love Affairs
1961
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as Hans, le bourreau
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Age: 57
Première brigade criminelle
1961
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as Commissioner Masson
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Age: 57
¿Pena de muerte?
1961
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as Pablo's father
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Age: 57
La tricheuse
1960
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as
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Age: 56
La P..... sentimentale
1958
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as Pierre Berger
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Age: 54
Life Together
1958
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as Le docteur Henri Girane
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Age: 54
No Image
Le Misanthrope
1958
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as Alceste
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Age: 54
All the World's Memory
1956
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as Self / Narrator (voice)
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Age: 52
Plucking the Daisy
1956
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as General Dumont
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Age: 52
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956
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as Richelieu
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Age: 52
Napoleon
1955
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as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
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Age: 51
The Count of Bragelonne
1954
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as d'Artagnan
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Age: 51
Ulysses
1954
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as Alicinous
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Age: 50
Julie de Carneilhan
1950
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as Léon de Carneilhan
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Age: 46
Father Serge
1945
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as
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Age: 41
The Great Pack
1945
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as Côme de Lambrefaut
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Age: 41
Twisted Mistress
1942
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as Guy Carbonnel
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Age: 38
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942
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as Max de Bray
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Age: 38
Boléro
1942
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as Georges
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Age: 38
Danton
1932
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as
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Age: 28
Mon amant l'assassin
1932
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as Bondizi
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Age: 28