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Jacques Dumesnil

Nov 09, 1903 - May 08, 1998 (94 years old) in 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 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.

Known For

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Ulysses
Alicinous
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Le Village englouti
Alphonse Delamoniaz
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Crooks in Clover
Louis « le Mexicain »
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Napoleon
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
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Au plaisir de Dieu
Duc Sosthène de Plessis-Vaudreuil
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Plucking the Daisy
General Dumont
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Richelieu
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Life Together
Le docteur Henri Girane
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Famous Love Affairs
Hans, le bourreau
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The Count of Bragelonne
d'Artagnan

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