Adolphe Menjou

Actor Feb 18 (died age 73) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1916–1972 (56 year career)

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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

Film

Paths of Glory

Gen. George Broulard

Film

A Star Is Born

Oliver Niles

Film

Pollyanna

Mr. Pendergast

Film

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

Pierre Revel

Film

Stage Door

Anthony Powell

Film

Morocco

Monsieur La Bessiere

Film

A Farewell to Arms

Major Rinaldi

Film

The Sniper

Frank Kafka

Filmography

Acting (144)

Movies (137)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

Pollyanna

as Mr. Pendergast

I Married a Woman

as Frederick W. Sutton

5.8

Paths of Glory

1957

as Gen. George Broulard

8.3

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown

as Arthur Martin

Bundle of Joy

as J. B. Merlin

The Ambassador's Daughter

1956

as Senator Jonathan Carwright

4.3

Timberjack

1955

as 'Sweetwater' Tilton

Man on a Tightrope

as Fesker

The Sniper

as Frank Kafka

Across the Wide Missouri

as Pierre

The Tall Target

as Caleb Jeffers

To Please a Lady

as Gregg

My Dream Is Yours

as Thomas Hutchins

Dancing in the Dark

as Melville Crossman

State of the Union

as Jim Conover

Mr. District Attorney

as Craig Warren

The Hucksters

as Mr. Kimberly

I'll Be Yours

as J. Conrad Nelson

The Bachelor's Daughters

as Alexander Moody

Heartbeat

as Ambassador

Man Alive

as Kismet

Step Lively

as Wagner

Hi Diddle Diddle

as Hector Phyffe

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

as Tom Moran

Roxie Hart

as Billy Flynn

Syncopation

as George Latimer

You Were Never Lovelier

1942

as Eduardo Acuña

7.0

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

1942

6.0

Road Show

1941

as Col. Carleton Carroway

5.3

Father Takes a Wife

1941

as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior

6.1

Turnabout

1940

as Phil Manning

5.8

A Bill of Divorcement

as Hilary Fairfield

Golden Boy

as Tom Moody

That's Right – You're Wrong

1939

as Stacey Delmore

5.7

The Housekeeper's Daughter

as Deakon Maxwell

King of the Turf

as Jim Mason

Letter of Introduction

1938

as John Mannering

5.7

Thanks for Everything

as J. B. Harcourt

The Goldwyn Follies

as Oliver Merlin

Stage Door

as Anthony Powell

Café Metropole

as Monsieur Victor

A Star Is Born

as Oliver Niles

One Hundred Men and a Girl

as John Cardwell

One in a Million

as Tad Spencer

Wives Never Know

as J. Hugh Ramsey

The Milky Way

as Gabby Sloan

Sing, Baby, Sing

as Bruce Farraday

Gold Diggers of 1935

as Nicolai Nicoleff

Broadway Gondolier

as Professor Eduardo de Vinci

5.4

The Trumpet Blows

1934

as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez

The Great Flirtation

as Stephan Karpath

The Human Side

as Gregory Sheldon

Little Miss Marker

as Sorrowful Jones

The Mighty Barnum

as Bailey Walsh

Journal of a Crime

as Paul Mollet

Easy to Love

as John

The Circus Queen Murder

as Thatcher Colt

Convention City

as T.R. (Ted) Kent

Morning Glory

as Louis Easton

The Worst Woman in Paris?

1933

as Adolphe Ballou

Forbidden

as Robert Grover

A Farewell to Arms

as Major Rinaldi

Diamond Cut Diamond

as Dan McQueen

Prestige

1932

as Capt. Remy Bandoin

5.5

The Night Club Lady

1932

as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt

6.4

Two White Arms

1932

as Maj. Carey Liston

Bachelor's Affairs

1932

as Andrew Hoyt

1.0

We’re Switching to Hollywood

as Self

The Front Page

as Walter Burns

Let Us Be Gay

as Bob Brown

Men Call It Love

as Tony

The Great Lover

as Paurel

Friends and Lovers

as Captain Geoffrey Roberts

The Easiest Way

as William Brockton

My Kid of a Father

as Jérôme Rocheville

Morocco

1930

as Monsieur La Bessiere

6.4

Bold Love

1930

Mysterious Mr. Parkes

1930

as Courtenay Parkes

New Moon

1930

as Governor Boris Brusiloff

4.3

Marquis Preferred

1929

as Marquis d'Argenville

Fashions in Love

1929

as Paul de Remy

His Tiger Lady

1928

as Henri

A Night of Mystery

The Circus: Premiere

as Self

His Private Life

as Georges St. Germain

A Gentleman of Paris

1927

as Marquis de Marignan

Serenade

1927

as Franz Rossi

Service for Ladies

1927

as Albert Leroux

Blonde or Brunette

1927

as Henri Martel

Evening Clothes

1927

as Lucien d'Artois

The Sorrows of Satan

1926

as Prince Lucio de Rimanez

6.7

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter

1926

as Albert Durant

6.0

A Social Celebrity

1926

as Max Haber

Fascinating Youth

1926

as Adolphe Menjou

The Ace of Cads

1926

The King On Main Street

1925

as The King

6.5

The Swan

1925

as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels

6.0

A Kiss in the Dark

1925

as Walter Grenham

Are Parents People?

1925

as Mr. Hazlitt

Shadows of Paris

1924

as Georges de Croy

The Fast Set

1924

as Ernest Steel

The Marriage Cheat

1924

as Bob Canfield

The Marriage Circle

1924

as Professor Josef Stock

Forbidden Paradise

as Chancellor

Open All Night

as Edmund Durverne

Broadway After Dark

as Ralph Norton

Sinners in Silk

1924

as Arthur Merrill

Broken Barriers

1924

as Tommy Kemp

1.0

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923

as Pierre Revel

6.8

Bella Donna

1923

as Mr. Chepstow

The Spanish Dancer

1923

as Don Salluste

4.0

The World's Applause

1923

as Robert Townsend

Rupert of Hentzau

1923

as Count Rischenheim

The Eternal Flame

1922

as Duc de Langeais

Singed Wings

1922

as Bliss Gordon

Clarence

1922

as Hubert Stein

Is Matrimony a Failure?

1922

as Dudley King

Head Over Heels

1922

as Sterling

Arabian Love

1922

as Captain Fortine (uncredited)

Pink Gods

1922

as Louis Barney

The Fast Mail

1922

as Cal Baldwin

Through the Back Door

as James Brewster

The Three Musketeers

as Louis XIII

The Sheik

as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert

5.9

The Faith Healer

1921

as Dr. Littlefield

Queenie

1921

as Count Michael

The Moth

1917

as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband

1.0

The Valentine Girl

1917

as Joe Winder

The Habit of Happiness

1916

as Society Man (uncredited)

5.4

The Devil at His Elbow

1916

as Wilfred Carleton

Nearly a King

1916

as Baron

The Crucial Test

1916

as Count Nicolai

The Blue Envelope Mystery

1916

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Manhattan Madness

1916

as Country Club Patron (uncredited)

5.5

A Parisian Romance

1916

as Julianai

1.0

The Reward of Patience

1916

as Paul Dunstan

Television (7)

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959

as Fitch

6.3

Target (US)

1958

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

The George Gobel Show

1954

as Self

7.3

Your Favorite Story

1953

as Host

What's My Line?

1950

as Self

6.9