Acting · Paris, France · Born November 9, 1903
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.
TVAu plaisir de Dieu
1977
as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
TVLe Village englouti
1976
as Alphonse Delamoniaz
MovieQue personne ne sorte
1964
as Police director
MovieCrooks in Clover
1963
as Louis « le Mexicain »
MovieHorace 62
1963
as Old Horace
MovieThe Hideout
1962
as Garnier, director
MovieSecret File 1413
1961
as Docteur Pira
MovieFamous Love Affairs
1961
as Hans, le bourreau
MoviePremière brigade criminelle
1961
as Commissioner Masson
Movie¿Pena de muerte?
1961
as Pablo's father
MovieLa tricheuse
1960
MovieLa P..... sentimentale
1958
as Pierre Berger
MovieLife Together
1958
as Le docteur Henri Girane
Le Misanthrope
1958
as Alceste
MovieThe Seventh Commandment
1957
as Gilbert Odet
MovieAll the World's Memory
1956
as Self / Narrator (voice)
MoviePlucking the Daisy
1956
as General Dumont
MovieIf Paris Were Told to Us
1956
as Richelieu
MovieNapoleon
1955
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
MovieThe Count of Bragelonne
1954
as d'Artagnan
MovieUlysses
1954
as Alicinous
MovieAnna
1951
as Professor Ferri
MovieJulie de Carneilhan
1950
as Léon de Carneilhan
MovieThe Farm of Seven Sins
1949
as Paul-Louis Courier
Movie56, rue Pigalle
1949
as Jean Vigneron
MovieTrafiquants de la mer
1947
as L'inspecteur principal Gardy
MovieLa dernière chevauchée
1947
as André Valérian
Rumors
1947
as Jean
MovieWomen's Games
1946
as Stanislas
MovieFather Serge
1945
MovieThe Great Pack
1945
as Côme de Lambrefaut
MovieNight Shift
1944
as Pierre Jansen
MovieLe bal des passants
1944
as Claude Amadieu
MovieSowing the Wind
1944
as The sculptor Bruno Horp
MoviePierre and Jean
1943
as Marchat
MovieMalaria
1943
MovieSecrets
1943
as Pierre
MovieWhite Wings
1943
as Gérard Clairval
MovieTwisted Mistress
1942
as Guy Carbonnel
MovieThe Marriage of Chiffon
1942
as Max de Bray
MovieBoléro
1942
as Georges
MovieAfrican Diary
1940
as Le lieutenant Parent
MovieTwo Women
1940
as Gomar
MovieYamilé Under the Cedars
1939
as Osman Hel Hussein
MovieBehind the Facade
1939
as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
MovieReturn at Dawn
1938
as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
MovieMarked Girls
1938
as Lawyer
MovieRail Pirates
1938
as Rolland
MovieLe cœur dispose
1937
as Baron Houzier
MovieBach the Detective
1936
as Stefani
MovieLucrezia Borgia
1935
as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
MovieUn homme de trop à bord
1935
as Clay
MovieThe King of the Champs-Élysées
1934
as Gangster
3 of the navy
1934
MovieL’Or
1934
as Malescot
MovieLa Belle de Nuit
1934
as Jean Fournier
MovieThe Ironmaster
1933
as Gaston de Bligny
MovieDanton
1932
MovieMon amant l'assassin
1932
as Bondizi
