Adolphe Menjou

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1890-02-18 (73 years old)

Deathday

1963-10-29

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Adolphe Menjou

Biography

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Acting

1957

Paths of Glory

as Gen. George Broulard

1960

Pollyanna

as Mr. Pendergast

1949

My Dream Is Yours

as Thomas Hutchins

1932

A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

1937

A Star Is Born

as Oliver Niles

1933

Morning Glory

as Louis Easton

1916

The Devil at His Elbow

as Wilfred Carleton

1952

The Sniper

as Frank Kafka

1948

State of the Union

as Jim Conover

1951

The Tall Target

as Caleb Jeffers

1936

The Milky Way

as Gabby Sloan

1946

Heartbeat

as Ambassador

1930

Morocco

as Monsieur La Bessiere

1931

The Front Page

as Walter Burns

1956

Bundle of Joy

as J. B. Merlin

1934

Little Miss Marker

as Sorrowful Jones

1944

Step Lively

as Wagner

1939

Golden Boy

as Tom Moody

1942

You Were Never Lovelier

as Eduardo Acuña

1935

Broadway Gondolier

as Professor Eduardo de Vinci

1916

1937

Stage Door

as Anthony Powell

1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

as Nicolai Nicoleff

1937

1924

Broken Barriers

as Tommy Kemp

1932

Forbidden

as Robert Grover

1921

1941

Father Takes a Wife

as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior

1949

Dancing in the Dark

as Melville Crossman

1943

Hi Diddle Diddle

as Hector Phyffe

1925

A Kiss in the Dark

as Walter Grenham

1942

Roxie Hart

as Billy Flynn

1924

The Marriage Circle

as Professor Josef Stock

1942

Syncopation

as George Latimer

1956

The Ambassador's Daughter

as Senator Jonathan Carwright

1947

The Hucksters

as Mr. Kimberly

1922

Clarence

as Hubert Stein

1938

Letter of Introduction

as John Mannering

1940

A Bill of Divorcement

as Hilary Fairfield

1923

Rupert of Hentzau

as Count Rischenheim

1934

The Mighty Barnum

as Bailey Walsh

1921

Through The Back Door

as James Brewster

1953

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1958

I Married a Woman

as Frederick W. Sutton

1925

Are Parents People?

as Mr. Hazlitt

1947

I'll Be Yours

as J. Conrad Nelson

1933

The Circus Queen Murder

as Thatcher Colt

1940

Turnabout

as Phil Manning

1937

One in a Million

as Tad Spencer

1927

Blonde or Brunette

as Henri Martel

1916

Manhattan Madness

as Country Club Patron (uncredited)

1931

The Easiest Way

as William Brockton

1941

Road Show

as Col. Carleton Carroway

1947

Mr. District Attorney

as Craig Warren

1957

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

as Arthur Martin

1916

The Habit of Happiness

as Society Man (uncredited)

1931

1939

1932

Prestige

as Capt. Remy Bandoin

1934

The Trumpet Blows

as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez

1937

Café Metropole

as Monsieur Victor

1950

1934

1931

Friends and Lovers

as Captain Geoffrey Roberts

1934

Journal of a Crime

as Paul Mollet

1926

The Sorrows of Satan

as Prince Lucio de Rimanez

1939

1936

Sing, Baby, Sing

as Bruce Farraday

1946

The Bachelor's Daughters

as Alexander Moody

1945

Man Alive

as Kismet

1932

The Night Club Lady

as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

1927

Serenade

as Franz Rossi

1933

Convention City

as T.R. (Ted) Kent

1921

The Faith Healer

as Dr. Littlefield

1923

The Spanish Dancer

as Don Salluste

1938

Thanks for Everything

as J. B. Harcourt

1931

1924

The Fast Set

as Ernest Steel

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1930

New Moon

as Governor Boris Brusiloff

1916

The Blue Envelope Mystery

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1924

Forbidden Paradise

as Chancellor

1923

The World's Applause

as Robert Townsend

1955

Timberjack

as 'Sweetwater' Tilton

1932

Bachelor's Affairs

as Andrew Hoyt

1938

The Goldwyn Follies

as Oliver Merlin

1922

Head Over Heels

as Sterling

1924

Sinners in Silk

as Arthur Merrill

1924

Broadway After Dark

as Ralph Norton

1925

The Swan

as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels

1943

1923

Bella Donna

as Mr. Chepstow

1924

Shadows of Paris

as Georges de Croy

1922

Pink Gods

as Louis Barney

1927

A Gentleman of Paris

as Marquis de Marignan

1927

Service for Ladies

as Albert Leroux

1929

Fashions in Love

as Paul de Remy

1924

Open All Night

as Edmund Durverne

1917

The Moth

as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband

1922

The Eternal Flame

as Duc de Langeais

1932

Diamond Cut Diamond

as Dan McQueen

1932

Two White Arms

as Maj. Carey Liston

1926

A Social Celebrity

as Max Haber

1921

The Sheik

as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert

1926

Fascinating Youth

as Adolphe Menjou

1939

King of the Turf

as Jim Mason

1922

The Fast Mail

as Cal Baldwin

1922

Singed Wings

as Bliss Gordon

1928

1928

His Private Life

as Georges St. Germain

1936

Wives Never Know

as J. Hugh Ramsey

1934

The Great Flirtation

as Stephan Karpath

1933

The Worst Woman in Paris?

as Adolphe Ballou

1934

The Human Side

as Gregory Sheldon

1927

Evening Clothes

as Lucien d'Artois

1929

Marquis Preferred

as Marquis d'Argenville

1930

My Kid of a Father

as Jérôme Rocheville

1916

The Crucial Test

as Count Nicolai

1931

Let Us Be Gay

as Bob Brown

1916

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