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

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

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

131

Gender

Male

Birthday

1890-02-18

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Adolphe Jean Menjou