Biography
Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where père is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films.
Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.
His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an African slave. At age 14, Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career.
Dumas's father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, a career which led to early success. Decades later, after the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favour and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years, then moved to Russia for a few years before going to Italy. In 1861, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendent, which supported Italian unification, before returning to Paris in 1864.
Though married, in the tradition of Frenchmen of higher social class, Dumas had numerous affairs (allegedly as many as 40). He was known to have had at least four illegitimate children, although twentieth-century scholars believe it was seven. He acknowledged and assisted his son, Alexandre Dumas, to become a successful novelist and playwright. They are known as Alexandre Dumas père ('father') and Alexandre Dumas fils ('son'). Among his affairs, in 1866, Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress who was less than half his age and at the height of her career.
The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as "the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill – once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself." ...
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Filmography
all 209
Movies 178
Writer 157
TV Shows 31
Creator 2
The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024)
The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)
Montecristo (2023)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
The Three Musketeers (2023)
The Fourth Musketeer (2022)
La Tour de Nesle (2021)
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)
Kean (2020)
Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione (2018)
The Musketeers (2014)
Три мушкетёра (2013)
Tri mushketera (2013)
The Three Musketeers: An Animated Classic (2013)
De Tre Musketörerna (2012)
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini (2012)
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (2011)
3 Musketeers (2011)
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini (2009)
Kingdom of Felony (2008)
Монтекристо (2008)
La Dame de Monsoreau (2008)
Montecristo (2006)
The Three Musketeers (2006)
Montecristo (2006)
Фаворский (2005)
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)
Три мушкетёра (2005)
Gankutsuou (2004)
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)
Luisa Sanfelice (2004)
Milady (2004)
3 Musketeers - The Musical (2003)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Musketeer (2001)
Young Blades (2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Queen Margot (1996)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1996)
Dogtanian: One for All and All for One (1995)
Queen Margot (1994)
Three Hundred Years After (1994)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later (1993)
Musketeers 20 Years Later (1993)
Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992)
The Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1992)
The Three Musketeers (1992)
The Three Muscatels (1991)
The Return of Dogtanian (1991)
The Three Musketeers (1991)
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
The Three Musketeers: Adventure of Aramis (1989)
The Corsican Brothers (1989)
Kean (1988)
The Amazing Adventures of the Musketeers (1988)
The Black Tulip (1988)
The Three Musketeers (1987)
The Three Musketeers: Pilot Episode - The Man in the Iron Mask (1987)
The Three Musketeers (1986)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1985)
The Corsican Brothers (1985)
Dogtanian Special (1985)
La loca historia de los tres mosqueteros (1983)
Padayottam (1982)
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981)
The Dog In Boots (1981)
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1979)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Kean (1975)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 (1974)
The Four Charlots Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1973)
Joseph Balsamo (1973)
Parížski mohykáni (1972)
La Dame de Monsoreau (1971)
Theatre Macabre (1971)
The Sex Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1971)
Alta comedia (1970)
Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere (1970)
The Earl of Montecristo (1969)
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo (1968)
Emma Hamilton (1968)
Tower of Screaming Virgins (1968)
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (1967)
The Three Musketeers (1966)
Il Conte di Montecristo (1966)
Les Compagnons de Jehu (1966)
Rose rosse per Angelica (1966)
Üç Korkusuz Arkadaş (1966)
Güneşe Giden Yol (1965)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1964)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1964)
The Black Tulip (1964)
Kean (1963)
Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963)
The Iron Mask (1962)
The Triumph of Robin Hood (1962)
The Corsican Brothers (1961)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Three Musketeers (1959)
Mantelli e spade insanguinate (1959)
Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria (1958)
El fin de un imperio (1958)
Los tres mosqueteros y medio (1957)
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (1957)
Soul of Steel (1957)
Cuatro contra el imperio (1957)
Tower of Lust (1955)
Pledge of Love (1955)
Los hermanos corsos (1955)
Knights of the Queen (1954)
Count of Bragelonne (1954)
Queen Margot (1954)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Il prigioniero del re (1954)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
The Three Musketeers (1953)
The Glorious Avenger (1953)
El conde de Montecristo (1953)
The Lady of the Camelias (1953)
Milady and the Musketeers (1952)
Lady In The Iron Mask (1952)
The Brigand (1952)
Mask of the Avenger (1951)
The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951)
Blades of the Musketeers (1950)
Amir El Entikam (1950)
Todos Por Um (1950)
Black Magic (1949)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
The Prince Of Thieves (1948)
La Dama de las Camelias (1947)
Queen's Necklace (1946)
Los Tres Mosqueteros (1946)
The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946)
La mujer de todos (1946)
The Fighting Guardsman (1946)
Camino de Sacramento (1945)
Le brigand gentilhomme (1943)
The Count of Monte Cristo Part 2 - The Retaliation (1943)
The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell (1943)
El hombre de la máscara de hierro (1943)
The Three Musketeers (1942)
El conde de Montecristo (1942)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Corsican Brothers (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
The Tower of Nesle (1937)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
The Three Musketeers (1933)
The Three Musketeers (1932)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1932)
Die Königsloge (1929)
The Queen's Necklace (1929)
Der Mann, der nicht liebt (1929)
Monte Cristo (1929)
The Iron Mask (1929)
The Count of Maravillas (1927)
Henry, King of Navarre (1924)
Kean (1924)
La dame de Monsoreau (1923)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1923)
Vingt ans après (1922)
Monte Cristo (1922)
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922)
Kean (1922)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
Mad Love (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Black Tulip (1921)
The Black Tulip Festival (1920)
The Corsican Brothers (1920)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1918)
Madame du Barry (1917)
A Modern Monte Cristo (1917)
The Corsican Brothers (1917)
The Three Musketeers (1916)
Queen Margaret (1914)
The Reign of Terror (1914)
The Lady of Monsoreau (1913)
Chicot the Jester (1913)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1913)
Monte Cristo (1912)
The Three Musketeers (1912)
The Queen's Necklace (1912)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)
The Three Musketeers (1903)
The Corsican Brothers (1898)
Toutes pour une
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1802-07-24
Deathday1870-12-05 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceVillers-Cotterêts, France
Height
RelationshipsIda Ferrier (1840-02-05 - 1859-01-01)
ChildrenHenry Bauër, Alexandre Dumas fils, Micaëlla-Clélie-Josepha-Élisabeth Cordier, Marie Alexandrine Dumas
FatherThomas-Alexandre Dumas
MotherMarie-Louise-Élisabeth Labouret Dumas
CitizenshipsFrance
Residencesformer 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France
Also Known AsAlexander Dumas, Alejandro Dumas , Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, Александр Дюма, Александр Дюма отец, Alexandre Dumas père, Alexandre Dumas p.
AwardsOrder of Glory, Order of Isabella the Catholic, Order of Charles III, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
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