Jacques Dumesnil
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.
Ulysses
as AlicinousA movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his...
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Crooks in Clover
as Louis « le Mexicain »An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a...
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Napoleon
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste BernadotteThe film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint...
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If Paris Were Told to Us
as RichelieuHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...
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Anna
as Professor FerriAnna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as...
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All the World's Memory
as Self / Narrator (voice)Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It...
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Famous Love Affairs
as Hans, le bourreauAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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The Marriage of Chiffon
as Max de BrayOdette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply...
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Behind the Facade
as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker playerIn the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an...
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Plucking the Daisy
as General DumontDue to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease...
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Malaria
as uncreditedA colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may...
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Twisted Mistress
as uncreditedGuy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René...
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Life Together
as Le docteur Henri GiraneThe writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based...
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The Farm of Seven Sins
as Paul-Louis CourierIn 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the...
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Giannino Sforza, Duke of MilanoFrench silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...
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Pierre and Jean
as MarchatAlice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls...
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Return at Dawn
as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty...
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La dernière chevauchée
as uncreditedA jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to...
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Le bal des passants
as Claude AmadieuFabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for...
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Trafiquants de la mer
as L'inspecteur principal GardyA gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and...
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Night Shift
as Pierre JansenA devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Rail Pirates
as RollandHenri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the...
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56, rue Pigalle
as Jean VigneronLucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with...
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Que personne ne sorte
as Police directorSet between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an...
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The Count of Bragelonne
as d'ArtagnanRaoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues...
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Boléro
as GeorgesAs her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a...
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Marked Girls
as uncreditedJuliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her...
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White Wings
as Gérard ClairvalA great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot...
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African Diary
as Le lieutenant ParentDuring a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and...
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Secrets
as PierreA penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant...
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Sowing the Wind
as The sculptor Bruno HorpA child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The...
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Le cœur dispose
as Baron HouzierAn aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each...
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The King of the Champs-Élysées
as uncreditedIn Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
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The Ironmaster
as Gaston de BlignyA young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial...
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
as Osman Hel HusseinA Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides...
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Two Women
as GomarConsidering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not...
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La Belle de Nuit
as Jean FournierBased on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La...
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Horace 62
as Old HoraceTwo families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the...
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Première brigade criminelle
as Commissioner MassonCommissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a...
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La P..... sentimentale
as Pierre BergerA high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
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Women's Games
as StanislasThe agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas...
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The Hideout
as Garnier, le directeurSet during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter...
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¿Pena de muerte?
as uncreditedPedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous...
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Bach the Detective
as StefaniNarcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas...
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Julie de Carneilhan
as Léon de CarneilhanA penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
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Danton
as uncreditedReconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a...
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Secret File 1413
as Docteur PiraA detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
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Father Serge
as uncreditedAn accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds...
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The Great Pack
as Côme de LambrefautCôme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told...
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La tricheuse
as uncreditedLily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time...
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Mon amant l'assassin
as BondiziAn eccentric woman is determined to marry a murderer. Her admirer will have to become a murderer...
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Au plaisir de Dieu
as Duc Sosthène de Plessis-VaudreuilOver several generations, the story of an aristocratic French family spanning the 20th Century,...
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