Birthday
1890/02/18
Day of death
1963/10/29 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
Adolphe Jean Menjou, Adolph Menjou, Адольф Менжу
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]
(1957) Paths of Glory
as Gen. George Broulard
(1960) Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendergast
(1949) My Dream Is Yours
as Thomas Hutchins
(1932) A Farewell to Arms
as Major Rinaldi
(1937) A Star Is Born
as Oliver Niles
(1933) Morning Glory
as Louis Easton
(1916) The Devil at His Elbow
as Wilfred Carleton
(1952) The Sniper
as Frank Kafka
(1948) State of the Union
as Jim Conover
(1951) The Tall Target
as Caleb Jeffers
(1951) Across the Wide Missouri
as Pierre
(1923) A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Pierre Revel
(1936) The Milky Way
as Gabby Sloan
(1946) Heartbeat
as Ambassador
(1930) Morocco
as Monsieur La Bessiere
(1931) The Front Page
as Walter Burns
(1956) Bundle of Joy
as J. B. Merlin
(1934) Little Miss Marker
as Sorrowful Jones
(1944) Step Lively
as Wagner
(1942) You Were Never Lovelier
as Eduardo Acuña
(1935) Broadway Gondolier
as Professor Eduardo de Vinci
(1939) Golden Boy
as Tom Moody
(1916) Nearly a King
as Baron
(1937) Stage Door
as Anthony Powell
(1935) Gold Diggers of 1935
as Nicolai Nicoleff
(1937) One Hundred Men and a Girl
as John Cardwell
(1928) A Night of Mystery
as ---
(1924) Broken Barriers
as Tommy Kemp
(1932) Forbidden
as Robert Grover
(1921) The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII
(1941) Father Takes a Wife
as Frederic 'Freddie' Osborne Senior
(1949) Dancing in the Dark
as Melville Crossman
(1943) Hi Diddle Diddle
as Hector Phyffe
(1925) A Kiss in the Dark
as Walter Grenham
(1942) Roxie Hart
as Billy Flynn
(1924) The Marriage Circle
as Professor Josef Stock
(1942) Syncopation
as George Latimer
(1956) The Ambassador's Daughter
as Senator Jonathan Carwright
(1947) The Hucksters
as Mr. Kimberly
(1922) Clarence
as Hubert Stein
(1938) Letter of Introduction
as John Mannering
(1940) A Bill of Divorcement
as Hilary Fairfield
(1923) Rupert of Hentzau
as Count Rischenheim
(1934) The Mighty Barnum
as Bailey Walsh
(1921) Through The Back Door
as James Brewster
(1953) Man on a Tightrope
as Fesker
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) I Married a Woman
as Frederick W. Sutton
(1925) Are Parents People?
as Mr. Hazlitt
(1947) I'll Be Yours
as J. Conrad Nelson
(1933) The Circus Queen Murder
as Thatcher Colt
(1940) Turnabout
as Phil Manning
(1937) One in a Million
as Tad Spencer
(1927) Blonde or Brunette
as Henri Martel
(1916) Manhattan Madness
as Country Club Patron (uncredited)
(1931) The Easiest Way
as William Brockton
(1941) Road Show
as Col. Carleton Carroway
(1947) Mr. District Attorney
as Craig Warren
(1957) The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
as Arthur Martin
(1916) The Habit of Happiness
as Society Man (uncredited)
(1931) The Great Lover
as Paurel
(1939) That's Right – You're Wrong
as Stacey Delmore
(1931) Prestige
as Capt. Remy Bandoin
(1934) The Trumpet Blows
as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
(1937) Café Metropole
as Monsieur Victor
(1950) To Please a Lady
as Gregg
(1934) Easy to Love
as John
(1931) Friends and Lovers
as Captain Geoffrey Roberts
(1934) Journal of a Crime
as Paul Mollet
(1926) The Sorrows of Satan
as Prince Lucio de Rimanez
(1939) The Housekeeper's Daughter
as Deakon Maxwell
(1936) Sing, Baby, Sing
as Bruce Farraday
(1946) The Bachelor's Daughters
as Alexander Moody
(1945) Man Alive
as Kismet
(1932) The Night Club Lady
as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
(1927) Serenade
as Franz Rossi
(1933) Convention City
as T.R. (Ted) Kent
(1921) The Faith Healer
as Dr. Littlefield
(1923) The Spanish Dancer
as Don Salluste
(1938) Thanks for Everything
as J. B. Harcourt
(1931) Men Call It Love
as Tony
(1924) The Fast Set
as Ernest Steel
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1926) The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
as Albert Durant
(1930) New Moon
as Governor Boris Brusiloff
(1916) The Blue Envelope Mystery
as Bit Part (uncredited)
(1924) Forbidden Paradise
as Chancellor
(1923) The World's Applause
as Robert Townsend
(1955) Timberjack
as 'Sweetwater' Tilton
(1932) Bachelor's Affairs
as Andrew Hoyt
(1928) The Circus: Premiere
as Self
(1938) The Goldwyn Follies
as Oliver Merlin
(1922) Head Over Heels
as Sterling
(1924) Sinners in Silk
as Arthur Merrill
(1924) Broadway After Dark
as Ralph Norton
(1925) The Swan
as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
(1925) The King On Main Street
as The King
(1943) Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Tom Moran
(1930) Bold Love
as ---
(1931) We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
(1924) Shadows of Paris
as Georges de Croy
(1923) Bella Donna
as Mr. Chepstow
(1922) Pink Gods
as Louis Barney
(1927) A Gentleman of Paris
as Marquis de Marignan
(1927) Service for Ladies
as Albert Leroux
(1929) Fashions in Love
as Paul de Remy
(1924) Open All Night
as Edmund Durverne
(1917) The Moth
as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
(1922) The Eternal Flame
as Duc de Langeais
(1932) Diamond Cut Diamond
as Dan McQueen
(1932) Two White Arms
as Maj. Carey Liston
(1926) A Social Celebrity
as Max Haber
(1921) The Sheik
as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
(1926) Fascinating Youth
as Adolphe Menjou
(1939) King of the Turf
as Jim Mason
(1922) The Fast Mail
as Cal Baldwin
(1922) Singed Wings
as Bliss Gordon
(1928) His Tiger Lady
as Henri
(1928) His Private Life
as Georges St. Germain
(1942) Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as ---
(1936) Wives Never Know
as J. Hugh Ramsey
(1934) The Great Flirtation
as Stephan Karpath
(1933) The Worst Woman in Paris?
as Adolphe Ballou
(1934) The Human Side
as Gregory Sheldon
(1926) The Ace of Cads
as ---
(1927) Evening Clothes
as Lucien d'Artois
(1929) Marquis Preferred
as Marquis d'Argenville
(1930) My Kid of a Father
as Jérôme Rocheville
(1916) The Crucial Test
as Count Nicolai
(1931) Let Us Be Gay
as Bob Brown
(1916) A Parisian Romance
as Julianai
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1958) Target (US)
as ---
(1953) Your Favorite Story
as Host
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Fitch
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1954) The George Gobel Show
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist