Actor
Adolphe Menjou
Biography

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 Th ...

Known For
Acting
1972 -- Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage)
1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960 -- Pollyanna | Mr. Pendergast
1958 -- I Married a Woman | Frederick W. Sutton
1957 -- Paths of Glory | Gen. George Broulard
1957 -- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | Arthur Martin
1956 -- Bundle of Joy | J. B. Merlin
1956 -- The Ambassador's Daughter | Senator Jonathan Carwright
1955 -- Timberjack | 'Sweetwater' Tilton
1953 -- Man on a Tightrope | Fesker
1952 -- The Sniper | Frank Kafka
1951 -- Across the Wide Missouri | Pierre
1951 -- The Tall Target | Caleb Jeffers
1950 -- To Please a Lady | Gregg
1949 -- Dancing in the Dark | Melville Crossman
1949 -- My Dream Is Yours | Thomas Hutchins
1948 -- State of the Union | Jim Conover
1947 -- The Hucksters | Mr. Kimberly
1947 -- Mr. District Attorney | Craig Warren
1947 -- I'll Be Yours | J. Conrad Nelson
1946 -- The Bachelor's Daughters | Alexander Moody
1946 -- Heartbeat | Ambassador
1945 -- Man Alive | Kismet
1944 -- Step Lively | Wagner
1943 -- Sweet Rosie O'Grady | Tom Moran
1943 -- Hi Diddle Diddle | Hector Phyffe
1942 -- You Were Never Lovelier | Eduardo Acuña
1942 -- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 |
1942 -- Syncopation | George Latimer
1942 -- Roxie Hart | Billy Flynn
1941 -- Father Takes a Wife | Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
1941 -- Road Show | Col. Carleton Carroway
1940 -- A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield
1940 -- Turnabout | Phil Manning
1939 -- That's Right – You're Wrong | Stacey Delmore
1939 -- The Housekeeper's Daughter | Deakon Maxwell
1939 -- Golden Boy | Tom Moody
1939 -- King of the Turf | Jim Mason
1938 -- Thanks for Everything | J. B. Harcourt
1938 -- Letter of Introduction | John Mannering
1938 -- The Goldwyn Follies | Oliver Merlin
1937 -- Stage Door | Anthony Powell
1937 -- One Hundred Men and a Girl | John Cardwell
1937 -- Café Metropole | Monsieur Victor
1937 -- A Star Is Born | Oliver Niles
1937 -- One in a Million | Tad Spencer
1936 -- Wives Never Know | J. Hugh Ramsey
1936 -- Sing, Baby, Sing | Bruce Farraday
1936 -- The Milky Way | Gabby Sloan
1935 -- Broadway Gondolier | Professor Eduardo de Vinci
1935 -- Gold Diggers of 1935 | Nicolai Nicoleff
1934 -- The Mighty Barnum | Bailey Walsh
1934 -- The Human Side | Gregory Sheldon
1934 -- The Great Flirtation | Stephan Karpath
1934 -- Little Miss Marker | Sorrowful Jones
1934 -- The Trumpet Blows | Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
1934 -- Journal of a Crime | Paul Mollet
1934 -- Easy to Love | John
1933 -- Convention City | T.R. (Ted) Kent
1933 -- The Worst Woman in Paris? | Adolphe Ballou
1933 -- Morning Glory | Louis Easton
1933 -- The Circus Queen Murder | Thatcher Colt
1932 -- A Farewell to Arms | Major Rinaldi
1932 -- The Night Club Lady | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1932 -- Diamond Cut Diamond | Dan McQueen
1932 -- Bachelor's Affairs | Andrew Hoyt
1932 -- Two White Arms | Maj. Carey Liston
1932 -- Forbidden | Robert Grover
1931 -- Prestige | Capt. Remy Bandoin
1931 -- Friends and Lovers | Captain Geoffrey Roberts
1931 -- The Great Lover | Paurel
1931 -- We're switching to Hollywood | Self
1931 -- Let Us Be Gay | Bob Brown
1931 -- The Front Page | Walter Burns
1931 -- Men Call It Love | Tony
1931 -- The Easiest Way | William Brockton
1930 -- New Moon | Governor Boris Brusiloff
1930 -- Morocco | Monsieur La Bessiere
1930 -- Bold Love |
1930 -- My Kid of a Father | Jérôme Rocheville
1929 -- Fashions in Love | Paul de Remy
1929 -- Marquis Preferred | Marquis d'Argenville
1928 -- His Private Life | Georges St. Germain
1928 -- His Tiger Lady | Henri
1928 -- A Night of Mystery |
1928 -- The Circus: Premiere | Self
1927 -- Serenade | Franz Rossi
1927 -- A Gentleman of Paris | Marquis de Marignan
1927 -- Service for Ladies | Albert Leroux
1927 -- Evening Clothes | Lucien d'Artois
1927 -- Blonde or Brunette | Henri Martel
1926 -- The Sorrows of Satan | Prince Lucio de Rimanez
1926 -- The Ace of Cads |
1926 -- A Social Celebrity | Max Haber
1926 -- Fascinating Youth | Adolphe Menjou
1926 -- The Grand Duchess and the Waiter | Albert Durant
1925 -- The King On Main Street | The King
1925 -- Are Parents People? | Mr. Hazlitt
1925 -- A Kiss in the Dark | Walter Grenham
1925 -- The Swan | Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
1924 -- The Fast Set | Ernest Steel
1924 -- Open All Night | Edmund Durverne
1924 -- Sinners in Silk | Arthur Merrill
1924 -- Broken Barriers | Tommy Kemp
1924 -- Broadway After Dark | Ralph Norton
1924 -- Shadows of Paris | Georges de Croy
1924 -- The Marriage Circle | Professor Josef Stock
1924 -- Forbidden Paradise | Chancellor
1923 -- The Spanish Dancer | Don Salluste
1923 -- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Pierre Revel
1923 -- Rupert of Hentzau | Count Rischenheim
1923 -- Bella Donna | Mr. Chepstow
1923 -- The World's Applause | Robert Townsend
1922 -- Singed Wings | Bliss Gordon
1922 -- Clarence | Hubert Stein
1922 -- Pink Gods | Louis Barney
1922 -- The Eternal Flame | Duc de Langeais
1922 -- The Fast Mail | Cal Baldwin
1922 -- Head Over Heels | Sterling
1921 -- The Sheik | Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
1921 -- The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII
1921 -- Through The Back Door | James Brewster
1921 -- The Faith Healer | Dr. Littlefield
1917 -- The Moth | Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
1916 -- The Blue Envelope Mystery | Bit Part (uncredited)
1916 -- Manhattan Madness | Country Club Patron (uncredited)
1916 -- The Devil at His Elbow | Wilfred Carleton
1916 -- The Crucial Test | Count Nicolai
1916 -- The Habit of Happiness | Society Man (uncredited)
1916 -- Nearly a King | Baron
1916 -- A Parisian Romance | Julianai
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