Jacques Dumesnil

Known for ActingBorn 1903-11-09Died 1998-05-08Paris, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

La P..... sentimentale

The Seventh Commandment

Trafiquants de la mer

Sowing the Wind

Un homme de trop à bord

Danton

Au plaisir de Dieu

Première brigade criminelle

La tricheuse

Julie de Carneilhan

La dernière chevauchée

Father Serge

Le bal des passants

White Wings

Le Village englouti

Night Shift

Malaria

Yamilé Under the Cedars

Crooks in Clover

Bach the Detective

Mon amant l'assassin

¿Pena de muerte?

Behind the Facade

Anna

All the World's Memory

Return at Dawn

The Hideout

Rumors

Women's Games

The Great Pack

Secrets

Boléro

Two Women

Le cœur dispose

Ulysses

The Ironmaster

Twisted Mistress

Pierre and Jean

Que personne ne sorte

Plucking the Daisy

Napoleon

African Diary

The Farm of Seven Sins

The Marriage of Chiffon

Life Together

The Count of Bragelonne

The King of the Champs-Élysées

56, rue Pigalle