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]
Gen. George Broulard
Paths of Glory
Mr. Pendergast
Pollyanna
Thomas Hutchins
My Dream Is Yours
Major Rinaldi
A Farewell to Arms
Oliver Niles
A Star Is Born
Louis Easton
Morning Glory
Wilfred Carleton
The Devil at His Elbow
Frank Kafka
The Sniper
Jim Conover
State of the Union
Caleb Jeffers
The Tall Target
Pierre
Across the Wide Missouri
Pierre Revel
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Gabby Sloan
The Milky Way
Ambassador
Heartbeat
Monsieur La Bessiere
Morocco
Walter Burns
The Front Page
J. B. Merlin
Bundle of Joy
Sorrowful Jones
Little Miss Marker
Wagner
Step Lively
Tom Moody
Golden Boy
Eduardo Acuña
You Were Never Lovelier
Professor Eduardo de Vinci
Broadway Gondolier
Baron
Nearly a King
Anthony Powell
Stage Door
Nicolai Nicoleff
Gold Diggers of 1935
John Cardwell
One Hundred Men and a Girl
A Night of Mystery
Tommy Kemp
Broken Barriers
Robert Grover
Forbidden
Louis XIII
The Three Musketeers
Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
Father Takes a Wife
Melville Crossman
Dancing in the Dark
Hector Phyffe
Hi Diddle Diddle
Walter Grenham
A Kiss in the Dark
Billy Flynn
Roxie Hart
Professor Josef Stock
The Marriage Circle
George Latimer
Syncopation
Senator Jonathan Carwright
The Ambassador's Daughter
Mr. Kimberly
The Hucksters
Hubert Stein
Clarence
John Mannering
Letter of Introduction
Hilary Fairfield
A Bill of Divorcement
Count Rischenheim
Rupert of Hentzau
Bailey Walsh
The Mighty Barnum
James Brewster
Through The Back Door
Fesker
Man on a Tightrope
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Frederick W. Sutton
I Married a Woman
Mr. Hazlitt
Are Parents People?
J. Conrad Nelson
I'll Be Yours
Thatcher Colt
The Circus Queen Murder
Phil Manning
Turnabout
Tad Spencer
One in a Million
Henri Martel
Blonde or Brunette
Country Club Patron (uncredited)
Manhattan Madness
William Brockton
The Easiest Way
Col. Carleton Carroway
Road Show
Craig Warren
Mr. District Attorney
Arthur Martin
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Society Man (uncredited)
The Habit of Happiness
Paurel
The Great Lover
Stacey Delmore
That's Right – You're Wrong
Capt. Remy Bandoin
Prestige
Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
The Trumpet Blows
Monsieur Victor
Café Metropole
Gregg
To Please a Lady
John
Easy to Love
Captain Geoffrey Roberts
Friends and Lovers
Paul Mollet
Journal of a Crime
Prince Lucio de Rimanez
The Sorrows of Satan
Deakon Maxwell
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Bruce Farraday
Sing, Baby, Sing
Alexander Moody
The Bachelor's Daughters
Kismet
Man Alive
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
The Night Club Lady
Franz Rossi
Serenade
T.R. (Ted) Kent
Convention City
Dr. Littlefield
The Faith Healer
Don Salluste
The Spanish Dancer
J. B. Harcourt
Thanks for Everything
Tony
Men Call It Love
Ernest Steel
The Fast Set
'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Albert Durant
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Governor Boris Brusiloff
New Moon
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Blue Envelope Mystery
Chancellor
Forbidden Paradise
Robert Townsend
The World's Applause
'Sweetwater' Tilton
Timberjack
Andrew Hoyt
Bachelor's Affairs
Self
The Circus: Premiere
Oliver Merlin
The Goldwyn Follies
Sterling
Head Over Heels
Arthur Merrill
Sinners in Silk
Ralph Norton
Broadway After Dark
Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
The Swan
The King
The King On Main Street
Tom Moran
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Amor audaz
Self
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
Mr. Chepstow
Bella Donna
Georges de Croy
Shadows of Paris
Louis Barney
Pink Gods
Marquis de Marignan
A Gentleman of Paris
Albert Leroux
Service for Ladies
Paul de Remy
Fashions in Love
Edmund Durverne
Open All Night
Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
The Moth
Duc de Langeais
The Eternal Flame
Dan McQueen
Diamond Cut Diamond
Maj. Carey Liston
Two White Arms
Max Haber
A Social Celebrity
Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
The Sheik
Adolphe Menjou
Fascinating Youth
Jim Mason
King of the Turf
Cal Baldwin
The Fast Mail
Bliss Gordon
Singed Wings
Henri
His Tiger Lady
Georges St. Germain
His Private Life
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
J. Hugh Ramsey
Wives Never Know
Stephan Karpath
The Great Flirtation
Adolphe Ballou
The Worst Woman in Paris?
Gregory Sheldon
The Human Side
The Ace of Cads
Lucien d'Artois
Evening Clothes
Marquis d'Argenville
Marquis Preferred
Jérôme Rocheville
Mon gosse de père
Count Nicolai
The Crucial Test
Bob Brown
Soyons gais
Julianai
A Parisian Romance
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-02-18
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Adolphe Jean Menjou