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Fernandel
Catalogued films 127Director 3Actor 126
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born near Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin, Italy. 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").
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Les Rois de la comédie
Happy He Who Like Ulysses
The Man in the Buick
Father's Trip
Your Money or Your Life
Don Camillo in Moscow
That Tender Age
Relax Yourself Darling
Good King Dagobert
Blague dans le coin
The Trip to Biarritz
My Wife's Husband
The Changing of the Guard
Assassin in the Phonebook
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The Last Judgment
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Cocagne
Dynamite Jack
Croesus
The Boss
The Cow and I
The Woman's Confidant
Gangster Boss
Life Together
The Law Is the Law
Les Vignes du Seigneur
Paris Holiday
Easiest Profession
Sénéchal the Magnificent
The Man in the Raincoat
The Virtuous Bigamist
Don Juan
Fernandel the Dressmaker
Honoré de Marseille
Don Camillo's Last Round
Spring, Autumn and Love
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Mademoiselle Nitouche
The Most Wanted Man
The Return of Don Camillo
Carnival
The Wild Oat
Forbidden Fruit
French Touch
The Little World of Don Camillo
The Red Inn
The Hunting Ground
The Sleepwalker
Topaze
Caught in the Foreign Legion
Three Sinners
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Three Feet in a Bed
I'm in the Revue
We Request an Assassin
The Heroic Mr. Boniface
The Cupboard Was Bare
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Emile the African
Escale au soleil
Rooster Heart
L'Aventure de Cabassou
Pétrus
Naïs
St. Val's Mystery
Hoboes in Paradise
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
A Dog's Life
The Lucky Star
Love Around the Clock
The Suitors Club
The Italian Straw Hat
The Acrobat
Little Nothings
The Wonderful Night
The Well-Digger's Daughter
The Mondesir Heir
Monsieur Hector
Fric-Frac
Berlingot and Company
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Raphaël le tatoué
Tricoche and Cacolet
Barnabé
Heartbeat
Hercule
Ernest the Rebel
Harvest
The Kings of Sport
Life Dances On
Ignace
The Smart People of the 11th
Francis the First
Josette
One of the Legion
Les Gaîtés de la finance
Jim the Crook
Ferdinand the Roisterer
The Lafleur Cavalryman
I Have an Idea
The Free Trade Hotel
Angele
Skylark
Navy Blue
The Eight-Forty-Seven Train
A Night of Madness
The Amorous Garrison
The Bread Peddler
Love and Cool Water
The Orderly
The Rooster of the Regiment
L'Ordonnance malgré lui- UNUn homme sans nom
Fun in the Barracks
No Women
Lilac
He
The Darling of Paris
Bric a Brac and Company
Black and White
Baby's Laxative
