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Jacques Dumesnil
Paris, France
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…
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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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1977
Au plaisir de Dieu
TV show Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
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1976
Le Village englouti
TV show Alphonse Delamoniaz
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1964
Que personne ne sorte
Movie Police director
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1963
Crooks in Clover
Movie Louis « le Mexicain »
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1963
Horace 62
Movie Old Horace
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1962
The Hideout
Movie Garnier, director
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1961
Secret File 1413
Movie Docteur Pira
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1961
Famous Love Affairs
Movie Hans, le bourreau
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1961
Première brigade criminelle
Movie Commissioner Masson
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1961
¿Pena de muerte?
Movie Pablo's father
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1960
La tricheuse
Movie
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1958
La P..... sentimentale
Movie Pierre Berger
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1958
Life Together
Movie Le docteur Henri Girane
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1958
Le Misanthrope
Movie Alceste
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1957
The Seventh Commandment
Movie Gilbert Odet
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1956
All the World's Memory
Movie Self / Narrator (voice)
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1956
Plucking the Daisy
Movie General Dumont
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1956
If Paris Were Told to Us
Movie Richelieu
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1955
Napoleon
Movie Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
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1954
The Count of Bragelonne
Movie d'Artagnan
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1954
Ulysses
Movie Alcinous
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1951
Anna
Movie Professor Ferri
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1950
Julie de Carneilhan
Movie Léon de Carneilhan
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1949
The Farm of Seven Sins
Movie Paul-Louis Courier
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1949
56, rue Pigalle
Movie Jean Vigneron
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1947
Trafiquants de la mer
Movie L'inspecteur principal Gardy
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1947
La Dernière chevauchée
Movie André Valérian
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1947
Rumors
Movie Jean
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1946
Women's Games
Movie Stanislas
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1945
Father Serge
Movie
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1945
The Great Pack
Movie Côme de Lambrefaut
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1944
Night Shift
Movie Pierre Jansen
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1944
Le bal des passants
Movie Claude Amadieu
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1944
Sowing the Wind
Movie The sculptor Bruno Horp
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1943
Pierre and Jean
Movie Marchat
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1943
Malaria
Movie
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1943
Secrets
Movie Pierre
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1943
White Wings
Movie Gérard Clairval
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1942
Twisted Mistress
Movie Guy Carbonnel
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1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
Movie Max de Bray
