Jacques Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnil
Dumesnil in 1943
Born	Marie Émile Eugène André Joly (1903-11-09)9 November 1903 Paris, France
Died	8 May 1998(1998-05-08) (aged 94) Bron, Rhône, France
Resting place	Miribel Cemetery, Miribel, Ain
Other names	Jacques Joly
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1928–1980
Children	Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly; 9 November 1903 – 8 May 1998) was a French film and television actor.

Early life

Jacques Dumesnil was born as Marie Émile Eugène André Joly on 9 November 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.

Career

He adopted the pseudonym Dumesnil because of the admiration he had to French actor Camille Dumény. ^[1]

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.

Personal life

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. ^[2]

Death

Jacques-Dumesnil street at Miribel, Ain.

Dumesnil died on 8 May 1998 in Bron, Rhône. He was buried three days later in the Miribel Cemetery in Miribel, Ain, the town where his sister Odette Joly had been a teacher and where he had chosen to study. install at the end of its life. Since then, a rue de Miribel has also been called “rue Jacques-Dumesnil”.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1932	Mon amant l'assassin  [ fr ]	Bondizi
1932	Danton	Fabre d'Églantine
1933	Rivaux de la piste  [ fr ]	Banz
1933	The Ironmaster	Le duc Gaston de Bligny
1934	Beauty of the Night	Jean Fournier
1934	Gold	Malescot	French-language version
1934	Three Sailors	Stephen Warren
1934	Le Roi des Champs-Élysées	Un gangster
1935	Un homme de trop à bord	Clay
1935	Lucrezia Borgia	Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano
1936	Bach the Detective	Stefani
1937	Wells in Flames	Garcia
1937	The Heart Disposes	Le baron Houzier
1938	Rail Pirates	André Rolland
1938	Women's Prison	L'avocat
1938	Return at Dawn	Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
1939	Behind the Facade	Albert Durant, le jouer de poker
1939	Yamilé sous les cèdres	Osman Hel Hussein
1940	The Man from Niger	Le lieutenant Jacques Parent
1940	L'Empreinte du dieu	Gomar
1942	Bolero	Georges
1942	Chiffon's Wedding	Max de Bray
1942	Twisted Mistress	Guy Carbonnel
1943	White Wings	Gérard Clairval
1943	Secrets	Pierre
1943	Malaria	Jean Barral
1943	Pierre and Jean	Le docteur Henri Marchat
1944	Sowing the Wind	Le sculpteur Bruno Horp
1944	Le bal des passants	Claude Amadieu
1944	Night Shift	Pierre Jansen
1945	The Great Pack	Côme de Lambrefaut
1945	Father Serge	Le prince Stéphane
1946	Women's Games	Stanislas
1947	Rumours	Jean
1947	La dernière chevauchée	André Valérian
1947	Les trafiquants de la mer	L'inspecteur principal Gardy
1949	56 Rue Pigalle	Jean Vigneron
1949	The Farm of Seven Sins	Paul-Louis Courier
1950	Julie de Carneilhan	Léon de Carneilhan
1951	Anna	Il professor Ferri
1954	Ulysses	Alicinous
1954	The Count of Bragelonne	d'Artagnan
1955	Napoleon	Le maréchal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
1956	If Paris Were Told to Us	Richelieu
1956	Plucking the Daisy	General Dumont
1956	Mitsou ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles	Eugène
1957	The Seventh Commandment	Gilbert Odet
1958	Life Together	Le professeur Henri Girane
1958	La p... sentimentale	Pierre Berger
1960	La tricheuse	Le docteur Armand Merville
1961	Famous Love Affairs	Maître Hans - le bourreau	(segment "Agnès Bernauer")
1961	¿Pena de muerte?	Padre de Pablo
1962	First Criminal Brigade	Commissar Masson
1962	Dossier 1413	Docteur Pira
1962	La planque	Garnier - le directeur
1963	Les Tontons flingueurs	Louis le Mexicain
1964	Que personne ne sorte	Le directeur de la police

References

1. Télé 7 jours n ° 920, week of 14 to 20 January 1978, pages 108 and 109, article by Philippe Andrieu: "Jacques Dumesnil:" In the street, people now call me M.le duc.
2. Télé 7 jours n ° 920, week of 14 to 20 January 1978, pages 108 and 109, article by Philippe Andrieu, with a photo of Jacques Dumesnil where he poses alongside his son Pierre.

Bibliography

• Crisp, C.G. The classic French cinema, 1930-1960. Indiana University Press, 1993.
• Hayward, Susan. Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign. Continuum, 2004.

External links

• Jacques Dumesnil at IMDb