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]
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Paths of Glory
as Gen. George Broulard
1957
Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendergast
1960
My Dream Is Yours
as Thomas Hutchins
1949
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
1932
A Star Is Born
as Oliver Niles
1937
Morning Glory
as Louis Easton
1933
The Devil at His Elbow
as Wilfred Carleton
1916
The Sniper
as Frank Kafka
1952
State of the Union
as Jim Conover
1948
The Tall Target
as Caleb Jeffers
1951
Across the Wide Missouri
as Pierre
1951
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre Revel
1923
The Milky Way
as Gabby Sloan
1936
Heartbeat
as Ambassador
1946
Morocco
as Monsieur La Bessiere
1930
The Front Page
as Walter Burns
1931
Bundle of Joy
as J. B. Merlin
1956
Little Miss Marker
as Sorrowful Jones
1934
Step Lively
as Wagner
1944
You Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo Acuña
1942
