Adolphe Menjou
Highest Rated: 100% Little Miss Marker (1934)
Lowest Rated: 20% Turnabout (1940)
Birthday: Feb 18, 1890
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The best dressed man in America, the ever debonair Adolphe Menjou quickly made his mark during the waning days of silent cinema as a suave ladies' man, clad in the finest of formal wear and always sporting the most impeccable moustache in the room. After toiling in small roles for a few years, Menjou first gained notice in Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate" (1923) and he settled into an onscreen persona that he showcased wonderfully in films like "Morocco" (1930). His Oscar-nominated turn as an acerbic, fast-talking editor in "The Front Page" (1931) demonstrated his ease with verbal humor and he went on to give memorable portrayals in everything from the Shirley Temple confection "Little Miss Marker" (1934) to Stanley Kubrick's bracing anti-war drama "Paths of Glory" (1957). Fluency in several languages also helped the Pittsburgh-born actor to convincingly play all manner of sophisticates. Menjou appeared in well over 100 films, where he proved regularly that he was equally comfortable at being charming or villainous, and could also do a fine job of combining those two characteristics when called for.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86% | 79% | Pollyanna | Mr. Pendergast (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | I Married a Woman | Frederick W. Sutton (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 96% | 95% | Paths of Glory | Gen. George Broulard (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Ambassador's Daughter | Senator Jonathan Cartwright (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Bundle of Joy | J.B. Merlin (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timberjack | Sweetwater' Tilton (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Man on a Tightrope | Fesker (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 82% | 64% | The Sniper | Police Lt. Frank Kafka (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Across the Wide Missouri | Pierre (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 65% | The Tall Target | Colonel Caleb Jeffers (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | To Please a Lady | Gregg (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | My Dream Is Yours | Thomas Hutchins (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dancing in the Dark | Melville Crossman (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 80% | 78% | State of the Union | Jim Conover (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Hucksters | Mr. Kimberly (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Heartbeat | Ambassador (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bachelor's Daughters | Alexander Moody (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. District Attorney | Craig Warren, D.A. (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man Alive | Kismet (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Step Lively | Wagner (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweet Rosie O'Grady | Tom Moran (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diamonds and Crime | Col. Hector Phyffe (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Hi Diddle Diddle | Col. Hector Phyffe (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Syncopation | George Latimer (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 100% | 75% | You Were Never Lovelier | Eduardo Acuna (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 82% | 56% | Roxie Hart | Billy Flynn (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Road Show | Col. Carleton Carroway (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Takes a Wife | Frederic "Freddie" Osborne Senior (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bill of Divorcement | Hilary Fairfield (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 20% | 18% | Turnabout | Phil Manning (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 80% | 47% | Golden Boy | Tom Moody (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Housekeeper's Daughter | Deakon Maxwell (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That's Right -- You're Wrong | Stacey Delmore (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King of the Turf | Jim Mason (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Goldwyn Follies | Oliver Merlin (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Letter of Introduction | John Mannering (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thanks for Everything | J.B. Harcourt (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Cafe Metropole | Monsieur Victor (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 88% | 57% | 100 Men and a Girl | John Cardwell (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 100% | 78% | A Star Is Born | Oliver Niles (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 96% | 87% | Stage Door | Anthony Powell (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sing, Baby, Sing | Bruce Farraday (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One in a Million | Thaddeus "Tad" Spencer (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Milky Way | Gabby Sloan (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wives Never Know | J. Hugh Ramsey (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 100% | 71% | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Nicoleff (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadway Gondolier | Professor Eduardo de Vinci (Character) | - | 1935 |
| 100% | 74% | Little Miss Marker | Sorrowful Jones (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mighty Barnum | Bailey Walsh (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journal of a Crime | Paul (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy to Love | John (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trumpet Blows |
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- | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Flirtation | Stephan Karpath (Character) | - | 1934 |
| 64% | 46% | Morning Glory | Louis Easton (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Circus Queen Murder | Unknown (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Worst Woman in Paris | Adolphe Ballou (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 86% | No Score Yet | Convention City | Unknown (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Forbidden | Bob (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 94% | 53% | A Farewell to Arms | Maj. Rinald (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Club Lady | Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prestige | Capt. Remy Baudoin (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bachelor's Affairs | Andrew Hoyt (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 87% | 62% | The Front Page | Walter Burns (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Easiest Way | William `'Will'` Brockton (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Friends and Lovers | Captain Geoffrey Roberts (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Men Call It Love | Tony (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Lover | Paurel (Character) | - | 1931 |
| 83% | 70% | Morocco | Monsieur La Bessiere (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Moon | Governor Boris Brusiloff (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parisian Belle | Governor Boris Brusiloff (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Gentleman of Paris | Marquis de Marignan (Character) | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sorrows of Satan | Prince Lucio de Rimanez (Character) | - | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Are Parents People? | Mr. Hazlitt (Character) | - | 1925 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Swan | Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels (Character) | - | 1925 |
| 100% | 84% | The Marriage Circle | Professor Josef Stock (Character) | - | 1924 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forbidden Paradise | Chancellor (Character) | - | 1924 |
| 92% | 75% | A Woman of Paris | Pierre Revel (Character) | - | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spanish Dancer | Don Salluste (Character) | - | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rupert of Hentzau | Count Rischenheim (Character) | - | 1923 |
| 71% | No Score Yet | Clarence | Unknown (Character) | - | 1922 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Through the Back Door | James Brewster (Character) | - | 1921 |
| 79% | 56% | The Sheik | Raoul de Saint Hubert (Character) | - | 1921 |
| 92% | 76% | The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII (Character) | - | 1921 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Habit of Happiness | Unknown (Character) | - | 1916 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nearly a King | Baron (Character) | - | 1916 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1951 |