Actor info
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Name :
Jacques Dumesnil
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Born :
November 9, 1903 in Paris, France (94 years at death)
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Died :
May 8, 1998
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
57 films (1932–1964)
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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
- Famous Love Affairs (1961) as Hans, le bourreau
- Napoleon (1955) as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
- Ulysses (1954) as Alcinous
- Anna (1951) as Professor Ferri
- Lucrezia Borgia (1935) as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
