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Adolphe Menjou
Actor· Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931.
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Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
68 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Pollyanna | Mr. Pendergast | Film |
| 1958 | I Married a Woman | Frederick W. Sutton | Film |
| 1957 | The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Arthur Martin | Film |
| 1957 | Paths of Glory | Gen. George Broulard | Film |
| 1956 | Bundle of Joy | J. B. Merlin | Film |
| 1956 | The Ambassador's Daughter | Senator Jonathan Carwright | Film |
| 1953 | Man on a Tightrope | Fesker | Film |
| 1952 | The Sniper | Frank Kafka | Film |
| 1951 | Across the Wide Missouri | Pierre | Film |
| 1951 | The Tall Target | Caleb Jeffers | Film |
| 1950 | To Please a Lady | Gregg | Film |
| 1949 | Dancing in the Dark | Melville Crossman | Film |
| 1949 | My Dream Is Yours | Thomas Hutchins | Film |
| 1948 | State of the Union | Jim Conover | Film |
| 1947 | Mr. District Attorney | Craig Warren | Film |
| 1947 | The Hucksters | Mr. Kimberly | Film |
| 1947 | I'll Be Yours | J. Conrad Nelson | Film |
| 1946 | Heartbeat | Ambassador | Film |
| 1944 | Step Lively | Wagner | Film |
| 1943 | Hi Diddle Diddle | Hector Phyffe | Film |
| 1942 | Syncopation | George Latimer | Film |
| 1942 | Roxie Hart | Billy Flynn | Film |
| 1942 | You Were Never Lovelier | Eduardo Acuña | Film |
| 1941 | Road Show | Col. Carleton Carroway | Film |
| 1941 | Father Takes a Wife | Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior | Film |
| 1940 | Turnabout | Phil Manning | Film |
| 1940 | A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield | Film |
| 1939 | Golden Boy | Tom Moody | Film |
| 1939 | That's Right – You're Wrong | Stacey Delmore | Film |
| 1938 | The Goldwyn Follies | Oliver Merlin | Film |
| 1938 | Letter of Introduction | John Mannering | Film |
| 1937 | One Hundred Men and a Girl | John Cardwell | Film |
| 1937 | Stage Door | Anthony Powell | Film |
| 1937 | One in a Million | Tad Spencer | Film |
| 1937 | Café Metropole | Monsieur Victor | Film |
| 1937 | A Star Is Born | Oliver Niles | Film |
| 1936 | The Milky Way | Gabby Sloan | Film |
| 1936 | Sing, Baby, Sing | Bruce Farraday | Film |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Nicolai Nicoleff | Film |
| 1935 | Broadway Gondolier | Professor Eduardo de Vinci | Film |
| 1934 | Journal of a Crime | Paul Mollet | Film |
| 1934 | Little Miss Marker | Sorrowful Jones | Film |
| 1934 | The Mighty Barnum | Bailey Walsh | Film |
| 1934 | Easy to Love | John | Film |
| 1934 | The Trumpet Blows | Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez | Film |
| 1933 | Morning Glory | Louis Easton | Film |
| 1933 | The Circus Queen Murder | Thatcher Colt | Film |
| 1932 | Forbidden | Robert Grover | Film |
| 1932 | A Farewell to Arms | Major Rinaldi | Film |
| 1932 | Prestige | Capt. Remy Bandoin | Film |
| 1931 | Friends and Lovers | Captain Geoffrey Roberts | Film |
| 1931 | The Easiest Way | William Brockton | Film |
| 1931 | The Front Page | Walter Burns | Film |
| 1931 | The Great Lover | Paurel | Film |
| 1930 | Morocco | Monsieur La Bessiere | Film |
| 1928 | His Tiger Lady | Henri | Film |
| 1927 | Blonde or Brunette | Henri Martel | Film |
| 1926 | The Sorrows of Satan | Prince Lucio de Rimanez | Film |
| 1925 | A Kiss in the Dark | Walter Grenham | Film |
| 1925 | Are Parents People? | Mr. Hazlitt | Film |
| 1924 | Open All Night | Edmund Durverne | Film |
| 1924 | The Marriage Circle | Professor Josef Stock | Film |
| 1923 | A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Pierre Revel | Film |
| 1923 | The Spanish Dancer | Don Salluste | Film |
| 1921 | The Sheik | Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert | Film |
| 1921 | The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII | Film |
| 1921 | Through the Back Door | James Brewster | Film |
| 1916 | Manhattan Madness | Country Club Patron (uncredited) | Film |
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