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.
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.
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”.
^ 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.
^ 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.
