Adolphe Menjou

Menjou has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blvd. As the originator of this role, he went on to play the character many more times in a series of sequels that continued until 1926. He ended his career with such roles as a French officer during World War I in 1957's Paths of Glory, and as the town curmudgeon in Pollyanna in 1960. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a muscular slave, in the silent movie classic Cabiria in 1914. He published his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors in that year. Before his cinema career, Pagano was a longshoreman who worked at the port of Genoa. In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood. Bartolomeo Pagano (1878 - 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931.
. His career stalled with the coming of talkies, but in 1930 he starred in Morocco. When he starred in 1923's A Woman of Paris, he solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town. Returning from the war, he became a star in such films as The Sheik and The Three Musketeers.

During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service. Attracted to the vaudeville stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963) was an American actor.