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Jacques Dumesnil

Acting

2 movies available on YTS

Actor info

  • Name :

    Jacques Dumesnil

  • Born :

    November 9, 1903 in Paris, France (94 years at death)

  • Died :

    May 8, 1998

  • Known for :

    Acting

  • Gender :

    Male

  • Film career :

    57 films (1932–1964)

  • Also known as :

    Жак Дюмениль, Marie Émile Eugène André Joly

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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.

Notable films

  • Ulysses (1954) as Alicinous
  • Napoleon (1955) as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
  • Crooks in Clover (1963) as Louis « le Mexicain »
  • Famous Love Affairs (1961) as Hans, le bourreau
  • Plucking the Daisy (1956) as General Dumont

2 YIFY Movies starring Jacques Dumesnil