
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.

as Police director

as Louis « le Mexicain »

as Old Horace

as Garnier, director

as Docteur Pira

as Hans, le bourreau

as Commissioner Masson

as Pablo's father

as Pierre Berger

as Le docteur Henri Girane

as Alceste

as Gilbert Odet

as Self / Narrator (voice)

as General Dumont

as Richelieu

as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

as d'Artagnan

as Alcinous

as Professor Ferri

as Léon de Carneilhan

as Paul-Louis Courier

as Jean Vigneron

as L'inspecteur principal Gardy

as André Valérian

as Jean

as Stanislas

as Côme de Lambrefaut

as Pierre Jansen

as Claude Amadieu

as The sculptor Bruno Horp

as Marchat

as Pierre

as Gérard Clairval

as Guy Carbonnel

as Max de Bray

as Georges

as Le lieutenant Parent

as Gomar

as Osman Hel Hussein

as Albert Durant, stockbroker and poker player

as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'

as Lawyer

as Rolland

as Baron Houzier

as Stefani

as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano

as Clay

as Gangster

as Malescot

as Jean Fournier

as Gaston de Bligny

as Banz

as Bondizi