
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
1954 · as Alicinous

Napoleon
1955 · as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

Lucrezia Borgia
1935 · as Giannino Sforza, Duke of Milano

Crooks in Clover
1963 · as Louis « le Mexicain »

Famous Love Affairs
1961 · as Hans, le bourreau

Secret File 1413
1961 · as Docteur Pira

Plucking the Daisy
1956 · as General Dumont

Anna
1951 · as Professor Ferri

If Paris Were Told to Us
1956 · as Richelieu

Trafiquants de la mer
1947 · as L'inspecteur principal Gardy

Twisted Mistress
1942 · as Guy Carbonnel

The Farm of Seven Sins
1949 · as Paul-Louis Courier

Danton
1932

Return at Dawn
1938 · as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'

Le bal des passants
1944 · as Claude Amadieu

The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934 · as Gangster

Life Together
1958 · as Le docteur Henri Girane

All the World's Memory
1956 · as Self / Narrator (voice)