
Jacques Dumesnil
Acting
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.

Que personne ne sorte
Police director

Crooks in Clover
Louis « le Mexicain »

Horace 62
Old Horace

The Hideout
Garnier, director

Secret File 1413
Docteur Pira

Famous Love Affairs
Hans, le bourreau

Première brigade criminelle
Commissioner Masson

¿Pena de muerte?
Pablo's father

La tricheuse

La P..... sentimentale
Pierre Berger

Life Together
Le docteur Henri Girane
Le Misanthrope
Alceste

The Seventh Commandment
Gilbert Odet

All the World's Memory
Self / Narrator (voice)

Plucking the Daisy
General Dumont

If Paris Were Told to Us
Richelieu

Napoleon
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

The Count of Bragelonne
d'Artagnan

Ulysses
Alicinous

Anna
Professor Ferri

Julie de Carneilhan
Léon de Carneilhan

The Farm of Seven Sins
Paul-Louis Courier

56, rue Pigalle
Jean Vigneron

Trafiquants de la mer
L'inspecteur principal Gardy

La dernière chevauchée
André Valérian
Rumors
Jean

Women's Games
Stanislas

Father Serge

The Great Pack
Côme de Lambrefaut

Night Shift
Pierre Jansen

Le bal des passants
Claude Amadieu

Sowing the Wind
The sculptor Bruno Horp

Pierre and Jean
Marchat

Malaria

Secrets
Pierre

White Wings
Gérard Clairval

Twisted Mistress
Guy Carbonnel

The Marriage of Chiffon
Max de Bray

Boléro
Georges

African Diary
Le lieutenant Parent

Two Women
Gomar

Yamilé Under the Cedars
Osman Hel Hussein

Behind the Facade
Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player

Return at Dawn
Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'

Marked Girls
Lawyer

Rail Pirates
Rolland

Le cœur dispose
Baron Houzier

Bach the Detective
Stefani

Lucrezia Borgia
Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano

Un homme de trop à bord
Clay

The King of the Champs-Élysées
Gangster
3 of the navy

L’Or
Malescot

La Belle de Nuit
Jean Fournier

The Ironmaster
Gaston de Bligny

Danton

Mon amant l'assassin
Bondizi







