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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 18, 1890
Died
October 29, 1963
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Adolphe Jean Menjou
- Adolph Menjou
- Адольф Менжу
Adolphe Menjou
0.4 Popularity
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
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
5.8
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
3.3
'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
7.0
Mr. Pendergast
Pollyanna
1960
6.3
Fitch
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
5.8
Frederick W. Sutton
I Married a Woman
1958
🎬
0.0
Target (US)
1958
8.3
Gen. George Broulard
Paths of Glory
1957
🎬
7.0
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
6.0
Arthur Martin
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
1957
Credits
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
5.8
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961
3.3
Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendergast
1960
7.0
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Fitch
1959
6.3
I Married a Woman
as Frederick W. Sutton
1958
5.8
🎬
Target (US)
1958
0.0
Paths of Glory
as Gen. George Broulard
1957
8.3
🎬
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
7.0
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
as Arthur Martin
1957
6.0
Bundle of Joy
as J. B. Merlin
1956
6.2
The Ambassador's Daughter
as Senator Jonathan Carwright
1956
4.3
Timberjack
as 'Sweetwater' Tilton
1955
3.2
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
Man on a Tightrope
as Fesker
1953
6.5
🎬
Your Favorite Story
as Host
1953
0.0
The Sniper
as Frank Kafka
1952
6.7
Across the Wide Missouri
as Pierre
1951
5.9
The Tall Target
as Caleb Jeffers
1951
6.8
To Please a Lady
as Gregg
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Dancing in the Dark
as Melville Crossman
1949
5.0
My Dream Is Yours
as Thomas Hutchins
1949
6.5
State of the Union
as Jim Conover
1948
6.7
The Hucksters
as Mr. Kimberly
1947
6.9
Mr. District Attorney
as Craig Warren
1947
6.5
I'll Be Yours
as J. Conrad Nelson
1947
6.0
The Bachelor's Daughters
as Alexander Moody
1946
6.2
Heartbeat
as Ambassador
1946
4.9
Man Alive
as Kismet
1945
5.1
Step Lively
as Wagner
1944
6.0
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Tom Moran
1943
6.0
Hi Diddle Diddle
as Hector Phyffe
1943
6.4
You Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo Acuña
1942
7.1
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
6.0
Syncopation
as George Latimer
1942
6.8
Roxie Hart
as Billy Flynn
1942
6.8
Father Takes a Wife
as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
1941
6.1
Road Show
as Col. Carleton Carroway
1941
5.3
A Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary Fairfield
1940
7.0
Turnabout
as Phil Manning
1940
6.0
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Stacey Delmore
1939
5.7
The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Deakon Maxwell
1939
3.5
Golden Boy
as Tom Moody
1939
6.5
King of the Turf
as Jim Mason
1939
7.0
Thanks for Everything
as J. B. Harcourt
1938
5.0
Letter of Introduction
as John Mannering
1938
5.7
The Goldwyn Follies
as Oliver Merlin
1938
4.8
Stage Door
as Anthony Powell
1937
7.0
One Hundred Men and a Girl
as John Cardwell
1937
6.4
Café Metropole
as Monsieur Victor
1937
6.9
A Star Is Born
as Oliver Niles
1937
7.1
One in a Million
as Tad Spencer
1937
7.0
Wives Never Know
as J. Hugh Ramsey
1936
0.0
Sing, Baby, Sing
as Bruce Farraday
1936
5.7
The Milky Way
as Gabby Sloan
1936
6.0
Broadway Gondolier
as Professor Eduardo de Vinci
1935
5.4
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Nicolai Nicoleff
1935
6.4
The Mighty Barnum
as Bailey Walsh
1934
0.5
The Human Side
as Gregory Sheldon
1934
0.0
The Great Flirtation
as Stephan Karpath
1934
3.0
Little Miss Marker
as Sorrowful Jones
1934
6.4
The Trumpet Blows
as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
1934
0.0
Journal of a Crime
as Paul Mollet
1934
5.7
Easy to Love
as John
1934
5.1
Convention City
as T.R. (Ted) Kent
1933
3.7
The Worst Woman in Paris?
as Adolphe Ballou
1933
0.0
Morning Glory
as Louis Easton
1933
6.1
The Circus Queen Murder
as Thatcher Colt
1933
5.3
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
1932
6.1
The Night Club Lady
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
1932
6.4
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Dan McQueen
1932
0.0
Bachelor's Affairs
as Andrew Hoyt
1932
1.0
Two White Arms
as Maj. Carey Liston
1932
0.0
Prestige
as Capt. Remy Bandoin
1932
5.5
Forbidden
as Robert Grover
1932
6.7
Friends and Lovers
as Captain Geoffrey Roberts
1931
5.0
The Great Lover
as Paurel
1931
5.3
We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
1931
4.8
🎬
Let Us Be Gay
as Bob Brown
1931
0.0
The Front Page
as Walter Burns
1931
6.5
Men Call It Love
as Tony
1931
4.5
The Easiest Way
as William Brockton
1931
5.4
New Moon
as Governor Boris Brusiloff
1930
4.3
Morocco
as Monsieur La Bessiere
1930
6.3
🎬
Bold Love
1930
0.0
My Kid of a Father
as Jérôme Rocheville
1930
0.0
Fashions in Love
as Paul de Remy
1929
0.0
Marquis Preferred
as Marquis d'Argenville
1929
0.0
His Private Life
as Georges St. Germain
1928
0.0
His Tiger Lady
as Henri
1928
0.0
🎬
A Night of Mystery
1928
0.0
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
1928
5.4
Serenade
as Franz Rossi
1927
0.0
A Gentleman of Paris
as Marquis de Marignan
1927
0.0
🎬
Service for Ladies
as Albert Leroux
1927
0.0
Evening Clothes
as Lucien d'Artois
1927
0.0
Blonde or Brunette
as Henri Martel
1927
0.0
The Sorrows of Satan
as Prince Lucio de Rimanez
1926
6.7
The Ace of Cads
1926
0.0
A Social Celebrity
as Max Haber
1926
0.0
Fascinating Youth
as Adolphe Menjou
1926
0.0
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
as Albert Durant
1926
6.0
The King On Main Street
as The King
1925
6.5
Are Parents People?
as Mr. Hazlitt
1925
0.0
A Kiss in the Dark
as Walter Grenham
1925
0.0
The Swan
as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
1925
6.0
The Fast Set
as Ernest Steel
1924
0.0
Open All Night
as Edmund Durverne
1924
7.0
Sinners in Silk
as Arthur Merrill
1924
0.0
Broken Barriers
as Tommy Kemp
1924
1.0
Broadway After Dark
as Ralph Norton
1924
0.0
Shadows of Paris
as Georges de Croy
1924
0.0
The Marriage Circle
as Professor Josef Stock
1924
6.4
Forbidden Paradise
as Chancellor
1924
5.7
The Spanish Dancer
as Don Salluste
1923
4.0
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre Revel
1923
6.8
Rupert of Hentzau
as Count Rischenheim
1923
0.0
Bella Donna
as Mr. Chepstow
1923
0.0
The World's Applause
as Robert Townsend
1923
0.0
Singed Wings
as Bliss Gordon
1922
0.0
Clarence
as Hubert Stein
1922
0.0
Pink Gods
as Louis Barney
1922
0.0
The Eternal Flame
as Duc de Langeais
1922
0.0
The Fast Mail
as Cal Baldwin
1922
0.0
Head Over Heels
as Sterling
1922
0.0
The Sheik
as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
1921
5.9
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII
1921
6.4
Through The Back Door
as James Brewster
1921
6.0
The Faith Healer
as Dr. Littlefield
1921
0.0
The Moth
as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
1917
1.0
The Blue Envelope Mystery
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1916
0.0
Manhattan Madness
as Country Club Patron (uncredited)
1916
5.5
The Devil at His Elbow
as Wilfred Carleton
1916
0.0
The Crucial Test
as Count Nicolai
1916
0.0
The Habit of Happiness
as Society Man (uncredited)
1916
5.4
Nearly a King
as Baron
1916
0.0
🎬
A Parisian Romance
as Julianai
1916
0.0