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Aliases: Alexander Dumas , Alejandro Dumas , Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie , Александр Дюма отец , Alexandre Dumas père , Alexandre Dumas p.

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France

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Movie Involvements: 156

TV Involvements: 35


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Biography

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His historical adventure novels were initially published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing successfully produced plays. He 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, his father took Thomas-Alexandre to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. Alexandre acquired work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, a career that led to his 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. He moved to Russia for a few years and then to Italy. In 1861, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendent, which supported Italian unification. He returned to Paris in 1864. 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 would never know when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexandre Dumas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Монтекристо
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Монтекристо

(2008) Characters
The Count of Monte Cristo
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8
The Three Musketeers
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8

The Three Musketeers

(1987) Novel
Montecristo
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5

Montecristo

(2006) Book
Alta comedia
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2

Alta comedia

(1970) Novel
The Count of Monte Cristo
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8
Montecristo
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5

Montecristo

(2006) Novel
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
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7

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2025 Original Story
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2020 Theatre Play
2018 Characters
2014 Novel
2013 Characters
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2012 Writer
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2011 Novel
2009 Original Story
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2008 Characters
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2007 Novel
2006 Novel
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Book
2005 Characters
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2004 Novel
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2002 Novel
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2001 Novel
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1999 Novel
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1996 Novel
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1995 Novel
1994 Characters
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1993 Novel
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1992 Novel
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1991 Novel
1989 Writer
Adaptation
Novel
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1988 Novel
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Novel
1987 Novel
Original Concept
1986 Author
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1985 Novel
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1983 Novel
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1982 Original Story
1981 Novel
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1979 Novel
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1977 Novel
1975 Novel
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1974 Novel
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1973 Novel
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1972 Novel
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Short Story
1970 Novel
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1968 Novel
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1967 Novel
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1964 Writer
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1963 Characters
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1959 Novel
1957 Theatre Play
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1953 Book
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1952 Writer
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1938 Characters
1937 Theatre Play
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1934 Author
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1932 Novel
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1929 Theatre Play
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1927 Novel
1924 Novel
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1921 Novel
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1920 Novel
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1916 Novel
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1913 Novel
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