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

• Au plaisir de Dieu — Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
• Le Village englouti — Alphonse Delamoniaz
• 1964Que personne ne sorte — Police director
• 1963Crooks in Clover — Louis « le Mexicain »
• 1963Horace 62 — Old Horace
• 1962The Hideout — Garnier, director
• 1961Famous Love Affairs — Hans, le bourreau
• 1961Première brigade criminelle — Commissioner Masson
• 1961Secret File 1413 — Docteur Pira
• 1961¿Pena de muerte? — Pablo's father
• 1960La tricheuse
• 1958La P..... sentimentale — Pierre Berger
• 1958Le Misanthrope — Alceste
• 1958Life Together — Le docteur Henri Girane
• 1957The Seventh Commandment — Gilbert Odet
• 1956If Paris Were Told to Us — Richelieu
• 1956Plucking the Daisy — General Dumont
• 1955Napoleon — Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
• 1954The Count of Bragelonne — d'Artagnan
• 1954Ulysses — Alcinous
• 1951Anna — Professor Ferri
• 1950Julie de Carneilhan — Léon de Carneilhan
• 194956, rue Pigalle — Jean Vigneron
• 1949The Farm of Seven Sins — Paul-Louis Courier
• 1947La Dernière chevauchée — André Valérian
• 1947Rumors — Jean
• 1947Trafiquants de la mer — L'inspecteur principal Gardy
• 1946Women's Games — Stanislas
• 1945Father Serge
• 1945The Great Pack — Côme de Lambrefaut
• 1944Le bal des passants — Claude Amadieu
• 1944Night Shift — Pierre Jansen
• 1944Sowing the Wind — The sculptor Bruno Horp
• 1943Malaria
• 1943Pierre and Jean — Marchat
• 1943Secrets — Pierre
• 1943White Wings — Gérard Clairval
• 1942Boléro — Georges
• 1942The Marriage of Chiffon — Max de Bray
• 1942Twisted Mistress — Guy Carbonnel
• 1940African Diary — Le lieutenant Parent
• 1940Two Women — Gomar
• 1939Behind the Facade — Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player
• 1939Yamilé Under the Cedars — Osman Hel Hussein
• 1938Marked Girls — Lawyer
• 1938Rail Pirates — Rolland
• 1938Return at Dawn — Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
• 1937Le cœur dispose — Baron Houzier
• 1936Bach the Detective — Stefani
• 1935Lucrezia Borgia — Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
• 1935Un homme de trop à bord — Clay
• 19343 of the navy
• 1934La Belle de Nuit — Jean Fournier
• 1934L’Or — Malescot
• 1934The King of the Champs-Élysées — Gangster
• 1933The Ironmaster — Gaston de Bligny
• 1932Danton
• 1932Mon amant l'assassin — Bondizi

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1956All the World's Memory — Self / Narrator (voice)