Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 2/18/1890
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- 10/29/1963 (aged 73)
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- Adolphe Jean Menjou, Adolph Menjou, Адольф Менжу
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]
12 titles

Paths of Glory
1957
Gen. George Broulard

A Star Is Born
1937
Oliver Niles

Pollyanna
1960
Mr. Pendergast

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923
Pierre Revel

Morocco
1930
Monsieur La Bessiere

A Farewell to Arms
1932
Major Rinaldi

Stage Door
1937
Anthony Powell

The Front Page
1931
Walter Burns

The Sniper
1952
Frank Kafka

State of the Union
1948
Jim Conover

The Sheik
1921
Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert

You Were Never Lovelier
1942
Eduardo Acuña


