Jacques Dumesnil
Acting
Born 1903-11-09
Died 1998-05-08
Paris, France
59 credits
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1
7 d'Or 1
Awards
Won 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Award
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- 1986 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won
7 d'Or 1 won
- 1978 7 d'Or Won
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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
Acting
54 credits
Ulysses
Napoleon
Le Village englouti
Lucrezia Borgia
Crooks in Clover
Trafiquants de la mer
Au plaisir de Dieu
Plucking the Daisy
Famous Love Affairs
Anna
Secret File 1413
¿Pena de muerte?
Le bal des passants
The Great Pack
Twisted Mistress
Life Together
Sowing the Wind
If Paris Were Told to Us
Behind the Facade
Boléro
Bach the Detective
The Farm of Seven Sins
56, rue Pigalle
The Count of Bragelonne
All the World's Memory
Yamilé Under the Cedars
Le cœur dispose
La dernière chevauchée
Pierre and Jean
The Marriage of Chiffon
Que personne ne sorte
African Diary
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Night Shift
The Ironmaster
Women's Games
Première brigade criminelle
Rail Pirates
Two Women
The Hideout
Rumors
Le Misanthrope
Return at Dawn
Horace 62
L’Or
Marked Girls
Mon amant l'assassin
La P..... sentimentale
The Seventh Commandment
White Wings
Julie de Carneilhan
Un homme de trop à bord
Secrets
La Belle de Nuit
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