Adolphe Menjou
Born: 1890-02-18 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1963-10-29
Known For: Acting
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]
Filmography
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1960
- Pollyanna as Mr. Pendergast
1959
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Fitch
1958
- I Married a Woman as Frederick W. Sutton
- Target (US)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- Paths of Glory as Gen. George Broulard
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown as Arthur Martin
1956
- Bundle of Joy as J. B. Merlin
- The Ambassador's Daughter as Senator Jonathan Carwright
1955
- Timberjack as 'Sweetwater' Tilton
1954
- The George Gobel Show as Self
1953
- Man on a Tightrope as Fesker
- Your Favorite Story as Host
1952
- The Sniper as Frank Kafka
1951
- Across the Wide Missouri as Pierre
- The Tall Target as Caleb Jeffers
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- To Please a Lady as Gregg
1949
- My Dream Is Yours as Thomas Hutchins
- Dancing in the Dark as Melville Crossman
1948
- State of the Union as Jim Conover
1947
- I'll Be Yours as J. Conrad Nelson
- The Hucksters as Mr. Kimberly
- Mr. District Attorney as Craig Warren
1946
- Heartbeat as Ambassador
- The Bachelor's Daughters as Alexander Moody
1945
- Man Alive as Kismet
1944
- Step Lively as Wagner
1943
- Hi Diddle Diddle as Hector Phyffe
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady as Tom Moran
1942
- Syncopation as George Latimer
- Roxie Hart as Billy Flynn
- You Were Never Lovelier as Eduardo Acuña
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1941
- Road Show as Col. Carleton Carroway
- Father Takes a Wife as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
1940
- A Bill of Divorcement as Hilary Fairfield
- Turnabout as Phil Manning
1939
- Golden Boy as Tom Moody
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Deakon Maxwell
- That's Right – You're Wrong as Stacey Delmore
- King of the Turf as Jim Mason
1938
- Letter of Introduction as John Mannering
- The Goldwyn Follies as Oliver Merlin
- Thanks for Everything as J. B. Harcourt
1937
- Café Metropole as Monsieur Victor
- A Star Is Born as Oliver Niles
- Stage Door as Anthony Powell
- One in a Million as Tad Spencer
- One Hundred Men and a Girl as John Cardwell
1936
- The Milky Way as Gabby Sloan
- Wives Never Know as J. Hugh Ramsey
- Sing, Baby, Sing as Bruce Farraday
1935
- Gold Diggers of 1935 as Nicolai Nicoleff
- Broadway Gondolier as Professor Eduardo de Vinci
1934
- Journal of a Crime as Paul Mollet
- The Trumpet Blows as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
- The Human Side as Gregory Sheldon
- The Mighty Barnum as Bailey Walsh
- The Great Flirtation as Stephan Karpath
- Little Miss Marker as Sorrowful Jones
- Easy to Love as John
1933
- Morning Glory as Louis Easton
- The Worst Woman in Paris? as Adolphe Ballou
- The Circus Queen Murder as Thatcher Colt
- Convention City as T.R. (Ted) Kent
1932
- A Farewell to Arms as Major Rinaldi
- Forbidden as Robert Grover
- Two White Arms as Maj. Carey Liston
- Diamond Cut Diamond as Dan McQueen
- The Night Club Lady as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
- Bachelor's Affairs as Andrew Hoyt
- Prestige as Capt. Remy Bandoin
1931
- Let Us Be Gay as Bob Brown
- The Front Page as Walter Burns
- The Easiest Way as William Brockton
- We're switching to Hollywood as Self
- The Great Lover as Paurel
- Friends and Lovers as Captain Geoffrey Roberts
- Men Call It Love as Tony
1930
- New Moon as Governor Boris Brusiloff
- Morocco as Monsieur La Bessiere
- My Kid of a Father as Jérôme Rocheville
- Bold Love
1929
- Marquis Preferred as Marquis d'Argenville
- Fashions in Love as Paul de Remy
1928
- A Night of Mystery
- His Tiger Lady as Henri
- His Private Life as Georges St. Germain
- The Circus: Premiere as Self
1927
- Serenade as Franz Rossi
- Service for Ladies as Albert Leroux
- A Gentleman of Paris as Marquis de Marignan
- Blonde or Brunette as Henri Martel
- Evening Clothes as Lucien d'Artois
1926
- The Sorrows of Satan as Prince Lucio de Rimanez
- The Grand Duchess and the Waiter as Albert Durant
- A Social Celebrity as Max Haber
- The Ace of Cads
- Fascinating Youth as Adolphe Menjou
1925
- Are Parents People? as Mr. Hazlitt
- A Kiss in the Dark as Walter Grenham
- The King On Main Street as The King
- The Swan as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
1924
- Broken Barriers as Tommy Kemp
- The Marriage Cheat as Bob Canfield
- Forbidden Paradise as Chancellor
- Shadows of Paris as Georges de Croy
- The Fast Set as Ernest Steel
- Open All Night as Edmund Durverne
- Broadway After Dark as Ralph Norton
- The Marriage Circle as Professor Josef Stock
- Sinners in Silk as Arthur Merrill
1923
- The Spanish Dancer as Don Salluste
- A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Pierre Revel
- Rupert of Hentzau as Count Rischenheim
- Bella Donna as Mr. Chepstow
- The World's Applause as Robert Townsend
1922
- Singed Wings as Bliss Gordon
- Clarence as Hubert Stein
- The Eternal Flame as Duc de Langeais
- The Fast Mail as Cal Baldwin
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Dudley King
- Pink Gods as Louis Barney
- Head Over Heels as Sterling
1921
- The Three Musketeers as Louis XIII
- The Sheik as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
- The Faith Healer as Dr. Littlefield
- Through The Back Door as James Brewster
1917
- The Moth as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
- The Valentine Girl as Joe Winder
1916
- The Blue Envelope Mystery as Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Habit of Happiness as Society Man (uncredited)
- A Parisian Romance as Julianai
- Manhattan Madness as Country Club Patron (uncredited)
- The Devil at His Elbow as Wilfred Carleton
- Nearly a King as Baron
- The Crucial Test as Count Nicolai