Adolphe Menjou
Actor
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.
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Filmography
A Star Is Born
as Oliver Niles 1937
Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendergast 1960
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre Revel 1923
Morocco
as Monsieur La Bessiere 1930
A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi 1932
Stage Door
as Anthony Powell 1937
The Sniper
as Frank Kafka 1952
The Front Page
as Walter Burns 1931
State of the Union
as Jim Conover 1948
The Sheik
as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert 1921
You Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo Acuña 1942
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Nicolai Nicoleff 1935
Morning Glory
as Louis Easton 1933
The Tall Target
as Caleb Jeffers 1951
The Marriage Circle
as Professor Josef Stock 1924
Forbidden
as Robert Grover 1932