Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly; November 9, 1903 – May 8, 1998) was a French

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and television actor.

Early life

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.

Career

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

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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 The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

in Helsinki, Finland. Télé 7 jours n ° 920, week of January 14 to 20, 1978, pages 108 and 109, article by Philippe Andrieu, with a photo of Jacques Dumesnil where he poses alongside his son Pierre.

Death

Dumesnil died on May 8, 1998 in Bron, Rhône. He was buried three days later in the Miribel Cemetery in

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, 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

References

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

* 1903 births 1998 deaths French male film actors French male television actors Male actors from Paris 20th-century French male actors Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres {{France-actor-stub