Adolphe Jean Menjou

 Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963)

His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, in which 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. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. Menjou ended his film career with such roles as French General George Broulard in Stanley Kubrick's 1957 film Paths of Glory. In 1955, Menjou played Dr. Elliott Harcourt in "Barrier of Silence", episode 19 of the first season of the television series Science Fiction Theatre. He guest starred as Fitch, with Orson Bean and Sue Randall as John and Ellen Monroe, in an 1961 episode, "The Secret Life of James Thurber", based on the works of the American humorist James Thurber, of the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson. He also appeared in the Thanksgiving episode of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on November 22, 1956. Menjou died on October 29, 1963, of hepatitis in Beverly Hills, California. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.