Adolphe Menjou
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-02-18
Day of Death
1963-10-29 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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 The Front Page in 1931.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known For
Acting
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1960)
Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendergast
(1958)
I Married a Woman
as Frederick W. Sutton
(1957)
Paths of Glory
as Gen. George Broulard
(1957)
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
as Arthur Martin
(1956)
The Ambassador's Daughter
as Senator Jonathan Carwright
(1956)
Bundle of Joy
as J. B. Merlin
(1955)
Timberjack
as 'Sweetwater' Tilton
(1953)
Man on a Tightrope
as Fesker
(1952)
The Sniper
as Frank Kafka
(1951)
Across the Wide Missouri
as Pierre
(1951)
The Tall Target
as Caleb Jeffers
(1950)
To Please a Lady
as Gregg
(1949)
My Dream Is Yours
as Thomas Hutchins
(1949)
Dancing in the Dark
as Melville Crossman
(1948)
State of the Union
as Jim Conover
(1947)
The Hucksters
as Mr. Kimberly
(1947)
Mr. District Attorney
as Craig Warren
(1947)
I'll Be Yours
as J. Conrad Nelson
(1946)
Heartbeat
as Ambassador
(1946)
The Bachelor's Daughters
as Alexander Moody
(1945)
Man Alive
as Kismet
(1944)
Step Lively
as Wagner
(1943)
Hi Diddle Diddle
as Hector Phyffe
(1943)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Tom Moran
(1942)
You Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo Acuña
(1942)
Roxie Hart
as Billy Flynn
(1942)
Syncopation
as George Latimer
(1942)
(1941)
Road Show
as Col. Carleton Carroway
(1941)
Father Takes a Wife
as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
(1940)
Turnabout
as Phil Manning
(1940)
A Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary Fairfield
(1939)
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Stacey Delmore
(1939)
Golden Boy
as Tom Moody
(1939)
King of the Turf
as Jim Mason
(1939)
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Deakon Maxwell
(1938)
Letter of Introduction
as John Mannering
(1938)
The Goldwyn Follies
as Oliver Merlin
(1938)
Thanks for Everything
as J. B. Harcourt
(1937)
A Star Is Born
as Oliver Niles
(1937)
Stage Door
as Anthony Powell
(1937)
One in a Million
as Tad Spencer
(1937)
One Hundred Men and a Girl
as John Cardwell
(1937)
Café Metropole
as Monsieur Victor
(1936)
The Milky Way
as Gabby Sloan
(1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing
as Bruce Farraday
(1936)
Wives Never Know
as J. Hugh Ramsey
(1935)
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Nicolai Nicoleff
(1935)
Broadway Gondolier
as Professor Eduardo de Vinci
(1934)
Journal of a Crime
as Paul Mollet
(1934)
Easy to Love
as John
(1934)
Little Miss Marker
as Sorrowful Jones
(1934)
The Mighty Barnum
as Bailey Walsh
(1934)
The Trumpet Blows
as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
(1934)
The Human Side
as Gregory Sheldon
(1934)
The Great Flirtation
as Stephan Karpath
(1933)
Morning Glory
as Louis Easton
(1933)
Convention City
as T.R. (Ted) Kent
(1933)
The Circus Queen Murder
as Thatcher Colt
(1933)
The Worst Woman in Paris?
as Adolphe Ballou
(1932)
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
(1932)
Forbidden
as Robert Grover
(1932)
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Dan McQueen
(1932)
Bachelor's Affairs
as Andrew Hoyt
(1932)
The Night Club Lady
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
(1932)
Prestige
as Capt. Remy Bandoin
(1932)
Two White Arms
as Maj. Carey Liston
(1931)
The Front Page
as Walter Burns
(1931)
We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
(1931)
The Easiest Way
as William Brockton
(1931)
Men Call It Love
as Tony
(1931)
Let Us Be Gay
as Bob Brown
(1931)
Friends and Lovers
as Captain Geoffrey Roberts
(1931)
The Great Lover
as Paurel
(1930)
Morocco
as Monsieur La Bessiere
(1930)
New Moon
as Governor Boris Brusiloff
(1930)
(1930)
My Kid of a Father
as Jérôme Rocheville
(1929)
Fashions in Love
as Paul de Remy
(1929)
Marquis Preferred
as Marquis d'Argenville
(1928)
His Tiger Lady
as Henri
(1928)
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
(1928)
His Private Life
as Georges St. Germain
(1928)
(1927)
Blonde or Brunette
as Henri Martel
(1927)
Service for Ladies
as Albert Leroux
(1927)
Evening Clothes
as Lucien d'Artois
(1927)
Serenade
as Franz Rossi
(1927)
A Gentleman of Paris
as Marquis de Marignan
(1926)
The Sorrows of Satan
as Prince Lucio de Rimanez
(1926)
A Social Celebrity
as Max Haber
(1926)
Fascinating Youth
as Adolphe Menjou
(1926)
(1926)
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
as Albert Durant
(1925)
Are Parents People?
as Mr. Hazlitt
(1925)
A Kiss in the Dark
as Walter Grenham
(1925)
The King On Main Street
as The King
(1925)
The Swan
as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
(1924)
The Marriage Circle
as Professor Josef Stock
(1924)
Broken Barriers
as Tommy Kemp
(1924)
Open All Night
as Edmund Durverne
(1924)
Broadway After Dark
as Ralph Norton
(1924)
Shadows of Paris
as Georges de Croy
(1924)
Forbidden Paradise
as Chancellor
(1924)
The Fast Set
as Ernest Steel
(1924)
Sinners in Silk
as Arthur Merrill
(1923)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre Revel
(1923)
The Spanish Dancer
as Don Salluste
(1923)
The World's Applause
as Robert Townsend
(1923)
Rupert of Hentzau
as Count Rischenheim
(1923)
Bella Donna
as Mr. Chepstow
(1922)
Clarence
as Hubert Stein
(1922)
The Eternal Flame
as Duc de Langeais
(1922)
Singed Wings
as Bliss Gordon
(1922)
Pink Gods
as Louis Barney
(1922)
Head Over Heels
as Sterling
(1922)
The Fast Mail
as Cal Baldwin
(1921)
The Sheik
as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
(1921)
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII
(1921)
The Faith Healer
as Dr. Littlefield
(1921)
Through The Back Door
as James Brewster
(1917)
The Moth
as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
(1916)
Manhattan Madness
as Country Club Patron (uncredited)
(1916)
Nearly a King
as Baron
(1916)
The Crucial Test
as Count Nicolai
(1916)
The Habit of Happiness
as Society Man (uncredited)
(1916)
The Blue Envelope Mystery
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1916)
A Parisian Romance
as Julianai
(1916)
The Devil at His Elbow
as Wilfred Carleton