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