Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1903-11-09
Day of Death
1998-05-08
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Jacques Dumesnil
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.
Filmography (57)
Que personne ne sorte
1964
Crooks in Clover
1963
Horace 62
1963
The Hideout
1962
Secret File 1413
1961
Famous Love Affairs
1961
Première brigade criminelle
1961
¿Pena de muerte?
1961
La tricheuse
1960
La P..... sentimentale
1958
Life Together
1958Le Misanthrope
1958
The Seventh Commandment
1957
All the World's Memory
1956
