Fernandel

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-05-08 (68 years old)

Deathday

1971-02-26

Place of Birth

Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Fernandel

Biography

Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. His stage name originated from his marriage to Henriette Manse, the sister of his best friend and frequent cinematic collaborator Jean Manse. So attentive was he to his wife that his mother-in-law amusingly referred to him as Fernand d'elle ("Fernand of her"). (Wikipedi...

Acting

2018

1958: Those Who Said No

as Self (archive footage)

2023

Les Rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

1961

Don Camillo: Monsignor

as Don Camillo Tarocci

1953

The Return of Don Camillo

as Don Camillo Tarocci

1955

Don Camillo's Last Round

as Don Camillo Tarocci

1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

as Don Camillo Tarocci

1958

Paris Holiday

as Fernydel

1947

1951

The Red Inn

as The Monk

1951

The Sleepwalker

as Victor Boniface

1937

Harvest

as Urbain Gedemus

1965

Don Camillo in Moscow

as Don Camillo Tarocci

1934

Angele

as Saturnin

1939

Fric-Frac

as Marcel

1932

Lilac

as le garçon d'honneur

1931

Black and White

as Le groom

1943

The Lucky Star

as Auguste

1937

Josette

as Albert Durandal

1950

Tu m'as sauvé la vie

as Fortuné Richard

1938

Heartbeat

as Irénée Fabre, 'le Schpountz'

1951

Topaze

as Albert Topaze

1953

The Wild Oat

as Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker

1960

Croesus

as Crésus

1963

My Wife's Husband

as Fernand Jouvin

1941

1934

Maruche

as Maruche

1933

Le Jugement de minuit

as Sam Hackitt

1937

The Smart People of the 11th

as The orderly Patard

1956

The Virtuous Bigamist

as Paul Verdier

1937

Life Dances On

as Fabien Coutissol

1951

1957

Le Chômeur de Clochemerle

as Baptistin Lachaud aka 'Tistin'

1952

French Touch

as Mario Marius

1953

The Most Wanted Man

as Joe Calvet

1959

Gangster Boss

as Antoine Venturen

1956

Honoré de Marseille

as Honoris, le guerrier grec, Honorius, le romain, Honoré maître tailleur à Marseille

1950

Caught in the Foreign Legion

as Luc, doorman of the "Miramar"

1954

The Sheep Has Five Legs

as Edouard de Saint-Forget

1958

The Law Is the Law

as Ferdinand Pastorelli

1937

Ignace

as Ignace Boitaclou, jeune paysan, ordonnance du colonel

1940

The Well-Digger's Daughter

as Félipe Rambert

1951

The Hunting Ground

as Urbain Coindet, paysan et conseiller municipal

1946

1955

Spring, Autumn and Love

as Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatier

1964

That Tender Age

as Adolphe Lartigue

1942

Simple-Minded

as Simplet, 'le fada de Miéjour'

1961

The Last Judgment

as The widower

1936

One of the Legion

as Fernand Espitalion

1957

Sénéchal the Magnificent

as François, Lucien Sénéchal

1939

Raphaël le tatoué

as Modeste Manosque

1938

Ernest the Rebel

as Ernest Pic

1959

The Cow and I

as Charles Bailly

1939

The Five Cents of Lavarede

as Armand Lavarède

1958

Life Together

as Marcel Caboufigue

1942

1964

Relax Yourself Darling

as François Faustin

1954

Mademoiselle Nitouche

as Célestin / Floridor

1963

Blague dans le coin

as Jeff Burlington

1943

Adrien

as Adrien Moulinet

1939

Berlingot and Company

as François Arnaud

1950

1961

Dynamite Jack

as Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu

1962

1938

Barnabé

as Barnabé

1935

Ferdinand the Roisterer

as Ferdinand Piat

1953

Carnival

as Dardamelle

1952

Forbidden Fruit

as Dr. Charles Pellegrin

1932

Fun in the Barracks

as Vanderague

1963

Good King Dagobert

as M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert

1948

1935

Jim la houlette

as Moluchet

1941

The Acrobat

as Ernest Sauce

1934

The Lafleur Cavalryman

as Fernand Lafleur

1950

Three Sinners

as Noël Annequin

1945

St. Val's Mystery

as Désiré Le Sec

1940

1963

The Trip to Biarritz

as Guillaume Dodut

1934

1957

The Man in the Raincoat

as Albert Constantin

1943

1968

The Man in the Buick

as Armand Favrot

1959

The Woman's Confidant

as Giuliano Goberti

1956

Fernandel the Dressmaker

as Fernand Vignard

1966

Your Money or Your Life

as Charles Migue

1933

1966

Father's Trip

as Quantin, Jura farmer

1937

1931

Baby's Laxative

as Truchet

1945

Naïs

as Toine

1934

The Free Trade Hotel

as Boulot, le garçon d'étage

1946

Pétrus

as Pétrus

1946

Rooster Heart

as Tulipe Barbaroux, ouvrier imprimeur

1940

The Mondesir Heir

as Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeux

1958

Les Vignes du Seigneur

as Henri Levrier, l'ami d'Hubert, producteur de champagne

1956

Don Juan

as Sganarelle / Falso Don Juan

1961

Cocagne

as Marc-Antoine

1937

1962

The Changing of the Guard

as Attilio Capellaro

1930

The best hostess

as Lucien Pivoine

1960

The Boss

as Justin Migonnet, professor of philosophy in Arles

2023

L'Âge d'or de la pub

as Self (archive footage)

1938

1950

I'm in the Revue

as Philippe, devout house painter

1948

1941

The Suitors Club

as Antoine Valoisir

1934

Skylark

as Michelet

1948

Emile the African

as Emile Boulard

1930

I have something to tell you

as l'amant qui s'est trompé d'étage

1943

1940

1934

The Amorous Garrison

as Frédéric, rider

1938

Hercule

as Hercule Maffre

1933

Love and Cool Water

as Eloi, le chauffeur

1932

He

as Isidore

1934

Le train de 8 H 47

as Croquebol

1956

1933

The Orderly

as Etienne

1934

1936

Les Gaîtés de la finance

as Marivol Lambinet

1932

No Women

as Casimir

1947

Irma la voyante

as Irma / Le client

1931

The end combine

as Joseph, le valet de chambre

1934

I Have an Idea

as Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)

1943

A Dog's Life

as Gustave Bourdillon

1933

Lidoire

as Lidoire

2019

The Phoney War

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1931

Night attack

as L'amant

1934

The Bread Peddler

as Billenbuis

Production

1942

Simple-Minded

as Director

1943

Adrien

as Director

1971

The Cat

as Producer

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