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Adolphe Menjou
Born: 18th Feb 1890 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Died 29th Oct 1963
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 144
Film: 137 (95%)
Television: 7 (5%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Talk, War, Mystery, Fantasy
Filmography
1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1960
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life. ... view
Character:
Mr. Pendergast
Sep 1959 (first aired)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts ... view
Character:
Fitch (1 ep.)
1958
Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake. ... view
Character:
Frederick W. Sutton
1957
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916. ... view
Character:
Gen. George Broulard
Jul 1957 (first aired)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1957
When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone thinks it's ... view
Character:
Arthur Martin
1956
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' so ... view
Character:
J. B. Merlin
1956
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too. ... view
Character:
Senator Jonathan Carwright
1955
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Ba ... view
Character:
'Sweetwater' Tilton
Oct 1954 (first aired)
The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1953
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performe ... view
Character:
Fesker
Jan 1953 (first aired)
Your Favorite Story is the title of a TV comedy anthology series that aired from 1953 through 1955. It premiered in December 1954 with the title Your ... view
Character:
Host (63 ep.)
1952
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by ... view
Character:
Frank Kafka
1951
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Bl ... view
Character:
Pierre
1951
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861. ... view
Character:
Caleb Jeffers
1950
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain an ... view
Character:
Gregg
Feb 1950 (first aired)
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Self - Panelist (1 ep.)
1949
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio ... view
Character:
Melville Crossman
1949
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York ... view
Character:
Thomas Hutchins
1948
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels. ... view
Character:
Jim Conover
1947
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity. ... view
Character:
Mr. Kimberly
1947
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating. ... view
Character:
Craig Warren
1947
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue. ... view
Character:
J. Conrad Nelson
1946
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rente ... view
Character:
Alexander Moody
1946
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. ... view
Character:
Ambassador
Character:
Kismet
1944
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit. ... view
Character:
Wagner
1943
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometow ... view
Character:
Tom Moran
1943
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things ... view
Character:
Hector Phyffe
1942
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer. ... view
Character:
Eduardo Acuña
1942
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood." ... view
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1942
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love. ... view
Character:
George Latimer
1942
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was j ... view
Character:
Billy Flynn
1941
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate. ... view
Character:
Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
1941
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an ... view
Character:
Col. Carleton Carroway
1940
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family. ... view
Character:
Hilary Fairfield
1940
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life. ... view
Character:
Phil Manning
1939
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program ... view
Character:
Stacey Delmore
1939
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop. ... view
Character:
Deakon Maxwell
1939
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangst ... view
Character:
Tom Moody
1939
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has ... view
Character:
Jim Mason
1938
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with ... view
Character:
J. B. Harcourt
1938
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also ... view
Character:
John Mannering
1938
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. ... view
Character:
Oliver Merlin
1937
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought ... view
Character:
Anthony Powell
1937
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderst ... view
Character:
John Cardwell
1937
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress. ... view
Character:
Monsieur Victor
1937
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido ... view
Character:
Oliver Niles
1937
American theatrical manager discovers Greta Muller preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden. ... view
Character:
Tad Spencer
1936
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marr ... view
Character:
J. Hugh Ramsey
1936
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolph ... view
Character:
Bruce Farraday
1936
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in ... view
Character:
Gabby Sloan
1935
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job. ... view
Character:
Professor Eduardo de Vinci
1935
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort. ... view
Character:
Nicolai Nicoleff
1934
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Ja ... view
Character:
Bailey Walsh
1934
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children. ... view
Character:
Gregory Sheldon
Character:
Stephan Karpath
1934
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especia ... view
Character:
Sorrowful Jones
1934
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent ... view
Character:
Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
1934
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ... view
Character:
Paul Mollet
1934
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. S ... view
Character:
John
1933
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sale ... view
Character:
T.R. (Ted) Kent
1933
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a ... view
Character:
Adolphe Ballou
1933
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a p ... view
Character:
Louis Easton
1933
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate ... view
Character:
Thatcher Colt
1932
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Event ... view
Character:
Major Rinaldi
1932
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection. ... view
Character:
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1932
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party. ... view
Character:
Dan McQueen
1932
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry bu ... view
Character:
Andrew Hoyt
1932
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women. ... view
Character:
Maj. Carey Liston
1932
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic. ... view
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Capt. Remy Bandoin
1932
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby ... view
Character:
Robert Grover
1931
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affa ... view
Character:
Captain Geoffrey Roberts
1931
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy. ... view
Character:
Paurel
Original title: Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
1931
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Soyons gais
1931
This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930)) ... view
Character:
Bob Brown
1931
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for ... view
Character:
Walter Burns
1931
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity. ... view
Character:
Tony
1931
A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" but then finds true love with a newspaperman her own ... view
Character:
William Brockton
1930
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriv ... view
Character:
Governor Boris Brusiloff
1930
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer. ... view
Character:
Monsieur La Bessiere
Original title: L'énigmatique Monsieur Parkes
1930
Paramount Pictures produced this French-language version of Slightly Scarlet (1930) , shot on the same sets and using some of the same actors, for the ... view
Character:
Courtenay Parkes
Original title: Amor audaz
1930
Malatroff, head of an international gang of jewel thieves, pressures Lucy Stavrin to pose as a countess and become friendly with the Corbetts, a nouve ... view
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Original title: Mon gosse de père
1930
Jérôme Rocheville, a man "well established in his age," marries a beautiful but incredibly spendthrift young woman. Unable to keep up with his wife' ... view
Character:
Jérôme Rocheville
1929
Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed. ... view
Character:
Marquis d'Argenville
1928
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, ... view
Character:
Georges St. Germain
1928
A variety extra falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and tries to impress her by posing as a rajah. He tells her the truth before anything happens, ... view
Character:
Henri
1928
Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who is now married to Rochemore, a French magistrate ... view
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1928
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'. ... view
Character:
Self
1927
Franz Rossi is a brilliant composer who is blessed with a beautiful wife named Gretchen. However, Rossi finds it necessary to involve himself with oth ... view
Character:
Franz Rossi
1927
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets. If dallying with youngster fräuleins isn't en ... view
Character:
Marquis de Marignan
1927
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced tha ... view
Character:
Albert Leroux
1927
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city ... view
Character:
Lucien d'Artois
1927
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage. ... view
Character:
Henri Martel
1926
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his p ... view
Character:
Prince Lucio de Rimanez
1926
An officer in the British Guards takes to drink when a friend and fellow officer convinces the woman they both love that he has another woman. ... view
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1926
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves ... view
Character:
Max Haber
1926
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases ... view
Character:
Adolphe Menjou
1926
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and c ... view
Character:
Albert Durant
1925
A European Ruler falls in love with an American. ... view
Character:
The King
1925
The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are plannin ... view
Character:
Mr. Hazlitt
Character:
Walter Grenham
1925
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Br ... view
Character:
Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
1924
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to ... view
Character:
Edmund Durverne
1924
Aging roué Arthur Merrill meets flapper Penelope Stevens on an ocean liner and decides to undergo rejuvenation surgery so that he may enjoy life agai ... view
Character:
Arthur Merrill
1924
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover t ... view
Character:
Tommy Kemp
1924
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him ... view
Character:
Ralph Norton
1924
Helen Canfield leaps from the pleasure yacht of her philandering husband and is picked up by natives of a South Seas island. There she falls in love w ... view
Character:
Bob Canfield
1924
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris. ... view
Character:
Georges de Croy
1924
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he d ... view
Character:
Chancellor
1923
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Mari ... view
Character:
Don Salluste
1923
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the c ... view
Character:
Pierre Revel
1923
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to play the King once more. Lost adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope novel, the sequel of the "Prisoner of ... view
Character:
Count Rischenheim
1923
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involve ... view
Character:
Mr. Chepstow
1923
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married ... view
Character:
Robert Townsend
1922
Spanish dancer Bonita della Guerda has a dream in which she is killed by a jester after declaring her love for a prince. Because she fears the dream w ... view
Character:
Bliss Gordon
1922
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler househo ... view
Character:
Hubert Stein
1922
The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any woman will "sell her soul" for diamonds, he deals h ... view
Character:
Louis Barney
Character:
Duc de Langeais
1922
Cowboy Stanley Carson is visiting Virginia Martin in a southern city when her brother and his gambler friends try to disgrace her. Then Carson is tric ... view
Character:
Cal Baldwin
1922
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip t ... view
Character:
Sterling
1922
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of their daughter Margaret with bank clerk Arthur Havila ... view
Character:
Dudley King
1922
Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. "The Sheik" wins her in a game of dice but then lets her go - for now. ... view
Character:
Captain Fortine (uncredited)
1921
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The ... view
Character:
Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
1921
Simon Pepper lives as a miserly recluse since the death of his young wife thirty years earlier. He is attended by his secretary and lookalike Abner Qu ... view
Character:
Count Michael
1921
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and A ... view
Character:
Louis XIII
1921
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother. ... view
Character:
James Brewster
1921
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost. ... view
Character:
Dr. Littlefield
1917
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money. S ... view
Character:
Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
1917
Marion, a young girl, is given up by her guardian to be raised by her father who has a criminal past. Under the enchanting influence of his daughter, ... view
Character:
Joe Winder
1916
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living. ... view
Character:
Bit Part (uncredited)
1916
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales ... view
Character:
Country Club Patron (uncredited)
1916
When rich civil engineer Robert Penfield goes to a small Quaker town in Pennsylvania to supervise a job, he meets Patience, who soon falls in love wit ... view
Character:
Paul Dunstan
1916
Young mechanical engineer John Ashton is trying to complete the plans for a new submarine. Under pressure to meet a deadline he has been leaning on wh ... view
Character:
Wilfred Carleton
1916
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Bori ... view
Character:
Count Nicolai
1916
Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy fam ... view
Character:
Society Man (uncredited)
1916
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place. ... view
Character:
Baron
1916
Rich wastrel Baron Chevrial fritters his days and nights away pursuing a series of young lovelies and playing with their affections. He is smitten wi ... view
Character:
Julianai