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 lHôtel 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 dOr 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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Poster movie Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover

Movie

Movies unavailable from Jacques Dumesnil

56, rue Pigalle

Jean Vigneron

Movie 1949

Plucking the Daisy

General Dumont

Movie 1956

Julie de Carneilhan

Léon de Carneilhan

Movie 1950

Mon amant l'assassin

Bondizi

Movie 1932

Danton

Movie 1932

3 of the navy

Movie 1934

The King of the Champs-Élysées

Movie 1934

Lucrezia Borgia

Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano

Movie 1935

Bach the Detective

Stefani

Movie 1936

Le cœur dispose

Baron Houzier

Movie 1937

Marked Girls

Movie 1938

Behind the Facade

Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player

Movie 1939

Twisted Mistress

Movie 1942

White Wings

Gérard Clairval

Movie 1943

Malaria

Movie 1943

Sowing the Wind

The sculptor Bruno Horp

Movie 1944

Le bal des passants

Claude Amadieu

Movie 1944

Father Serge

Movie 1945

Women's Games

Stanislas

Movie 1946

Anna

Professor Ferri

Movie 1951

The Hideout

Garnier, le directeur

Movie 1962

The Marriage of Chiffon

Max de Bray

Movie 1942

African Diary

Le lieutenant Parent

Movie 1940

Que personne ne sorte

Police director

Movie 1964

Trafiquants de la mer

L'inspecteur principal Gardy

Movie 1947

La P..... sentimentale

Movie 1958

Life Together

Le docteur Henri Girane

Movie 1958

The Great Pack

Côme de Lambrefaut

Movie 1945

La tricheuse

Movie 1960

Rumors

Jean

Movie 1947

The Seventh Commandment

Gilbert Odet

Movie 1957

Return at Dawn

Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'

Movie 1938

Un homme de trop à bord

Clay

Movie 1935

Boléro

Georges

Movie 1942

Pierre and Jean

Marchat

Movie 1943

Rail Pirates

Rolland

Movie 1938

The Farm of Seven Sins

Paul-Louis Courier

Movie 1949

The Ironmaster

Gaston de Bligny

Movie 1933

Famous Love Affairs

Hans, le bourreau

Movie 1961

Secret File 1413

Docteur Pira

Movie 1961

Première brigade criminelle

Commissioner Masson

Movie 1961

The Count of Bragelonne

d'Artagnan

Movie 1954

Night Shift

Pierre Jansen

Movie 1944

¿Pena de muerte?

Movie 1961

All the World's Memory

Self / Narrator (voice)

Movie 1956

La Belle de Nuit

Jean Fournier

Movie 1934

Napoleon

Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

Movie 1955

La dernière chevauchée

Movie 1947

Secrets

Pierre

Movie 1943

Two Women

Gomar

Movie 1940

L’or

Malescot

Movie 1934

Ulysses

Alicinous

Movie 1954

If Paris Were Told to Us

Richelieu

Movie 1956

Yamilé Under the Cedars

Osman Hel Hussein

Movie 1939

Horace 62

Old Horace

Movie 1963

Tv series unavailable from Jacques Dumesnil

Le Village englouti

Alphonse Delamoniaz

Tv 1976

Au plaisir de Dieu

Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil

Tv 1977