Jacques Dumesnil

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-11-09 (95 years old)

Deathday

1998-05-08

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jacques Dumesnil

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 sand...

Acting

1963

Crooks in Clover

as Louis « le Mexicain »

1949

56, rue Pigalle

as Jean Vigneron

1956

Plucking the Daisy

as General Dumont

1950

Julie de Carneilhan

as Léon de Carneilhan

1932

1932

1935

Lucrezia Borgia

as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano

1936

1937

Le cœur dispose

as Baron Houzier

1939

Behind the Facade

as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player

1942

Twisted Mistress

as Guy Carbonnel

1943

White Wings

as Gérard Clairval

1944

Sowing the Wind

as The sculptor Bruno Horp

1944

Le bal des passants

as Claude Amadieu

1946

Women's Games

as Stanislas

1951

Anna

as Professor Ferri

1962

The Hideout

as Garnier, director

1942

1940

African Diary

as Le lieutenant Parent

1964

Que personne ne sorte

as Police director

1947

Trafiquants de la mer

as L'inspecteur principal Gardy

1958

La P..... sentimentale

as Pierre Berger

1958

Life Together

as Le docteur Henri Girane

1945

The Great Pack

as Côme de Lambrefaut

1947

Rumors

as Jean

1957

1938

Return at Dawn

as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'

1942

Boléro

as Georges

1943

Pierre and Jean

as Marchat

1938

Rail Pirates

as Rolland

1949

The Farm of Seven Sins

as Paul-Louis Courier

1933

The Ironmaster

as Gaston de Bligny

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as Hans, le bourreau

1961

Secret File 1413

as Docteur Pira

1961

Première brigade criminelle

as Commissioner Masson

1954

1944

Night Shift

as Pierre Jansen

1956

All the World's Memory

as Self / Narrator (voice)

1934

La Belle de Nuit

as Jean Fournier

1955

Napoleon

as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

1943

Secrets

as Pierre

1940

Two Women

as Gomar

1934

L’Or

as Malescot

1954

Ulysses

as Alicinous

1956

1939

Yamilé Under the Cedars

as Osman Hel Hussein

1963

Horace 62

as Old Horace

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