Fernandel
Born: 1903-05-08 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Died: 1971-02-26
Known For: Acting
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"). (Wikipedia)
Filmography
2023
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
- Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
2019
- The Phoney War as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
- 1958: Those Who Said No as Self (archive footage)
2000
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1971
- The Cat ... (Producer)
1970
- Happy He Who Like Ulysses as Antonin
1968
- Stasera Fernandel as Monsieur Fernand
- The Man in the Buick as Armand Favrot
1967
- L'Amateur as Fernand
1966
- Your Money or Your Life as Charles Migue
- Father's Trip as Quantin, Jura farmer
1965
- Don Camillo in Moscow as Don Camillo Tarocci
1964
- That Tender Age as Adolphe Lartigue
- Relax Yourself Darling as François Faustin
1963
- My Wife's Husband as Fernand Jouvin
- The Trip to Biarritz as Guillaume Dodut
- Good King Dagobert as M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert
- Blague dans le coin as Jeff Burlington
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Dieu / God
- The Changing of the Guard as Attilio Capellaro
- Assassin in the Phonebook as Albert Rimond
1961
- Cocagne as Marc-Antoine
- Don Camillo: Monsignor as Don Camillo Tarocci
- The Last Judgment as The widower
- Dynamite Jack as Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu
1959
- Discorama as Self
- The Cow and I as Charles Bailly
- Gangster Boss as Antoine Venturen
- The Woman's Confidant as Giuliano Goberti
1958
- Life Together as Marcel Caboufigue
- Les Vignes du Seigneur as Henri Levrier, l'ami d'Hubert, producteur de champagne
- Paris Holiday as Fernydel
- The Law Is the Law as Ferdinand Pastorelli
1957
- The Man in the Raincoat as Albert Constantin
- Sénéchal the Magnificent as François, Lucien Sénéchal
- Easiest Profession as Baptistin Lachaud aka 'Tistin'
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Around the World in 80 Days as French Coachman
- Don Juan as Sganarelle / Falso Don Juan
- Fernandel the Dressmaker as Fernand Vignard
- Honoré de Marseille as Honoris, le guerrier grec, Honorius, le romain, Honoré maître tailleur à Marseille
- The Virtuous Bigamist as Paul Verdier
1955
- Don Camillo's Last Round as Don Camillo Tarocci
- Spring, Autumn and Love as Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatier
1954
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Ali Baba
- The Sheep Has Five Legs as Edouard de Saint-Forget
- Mademoiselle Nitouche as Célestin / Floridor
1953
- The Return of Don Camillo as Don Camillo Tarocci
- The Wild Oat as Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker
- Carnival as Dardamelle
- The Most Wanted Man as Joe Calvet
1952
- The Little World of Don Camillo as Don Camillo Tarocci
- French Touch as Mario Marius
- Forbidden Fruit as Dr. Charles Pellegrin
1951
- The Red Inn as The Monk
- The Sleepwalker as Victor Boniface
- Topaze as Albert Topaze
- Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny as Adhémar Pomme
- The Hunting Ground as Urbain Coindet, paysan et conseiller municipal
1950
- Three Feet in a Bed as Casimir
- Caught in the Foreign Legion as Luc, doorman of the "Miramar"
- Tu m'as sauvé la vie as Fortuné Richard
- I'm in the Revue as Philippe, devout house painter
- Three Sinners as Noël Annequin
1949
- The Heroic Mr. Boniface as Boniface
- We Request an Assassin as Bob
1948
- Emile the African as Emile Boulard
- The Cupboard Was Bare as Alfred Puc
- Si ça peut vous faire plaisir as Martial Gonfaron
1947
- Escale au soleil as Guide
- Irma la voyante as Irma / Le client
1946
- Pétrus as Pétrus
- Rooster Heart as Tulipe Barbaroux, ouvrier imprimeur
- L'Aventure de Cabassou as Cabassou
1945
- Naïs as Toine
- Hoboes in Paradise as Pons
- St. Val's Mystery as Désiré Le Sec
1943
- The Lucky Star as Auguste
- Adrien as Adrien Moulinet
- Don't Shout it from the Rooftops as Vincent Fleuret
- A Dog's Life as Gustave Bourdillon
- Love Around the Clock as Antonin
1942
- Simple-Minded as Simplet, 'le fada de Miéjour'
1941
- The Acrobat as Ernest Sauce
- Little Nothings as Astier
- The Suitors Club as Antoine Valoisir
- The Italian Straw Hat as Fadinard
1940
- Monsieur Hector as Hector
- The Well-Digger's Daughter as Félipe Rambert
- The Mondesir Heir as Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeux
- The Wonderful Night as le berger
1939
- Fric-Frac as Marcel
- The Five Cents of Lavarede as Armand Lavarède
- Berlingot and Company as François Arnaud
- Raphaël le tatoué as Modeste Manosque
1938
- Ernest the Rebel as Ernest Pic
- Heartbeat as Irénée Fabre, 'le Schpountz'
- Tricoche and Cacolet as Tricoche
- Hercule as Hercule Maffre
- Barnabé as Barnabé
1937
- The Smart People of the 11th as The orderly Patard
- Josette as Albert Durandal
- Francis the First as Honorin
- Ignace as Ignace Boitaclou, jeune paysan, ordonnance du colonel
- The Kings of Sport as Acteur
- Life Dances On as Fabien Coutissol
- Harvest as Urbain Gedemus
1936
- Les Gaîtés de la finance as Marivol Lambinet
- One of the Legion as Fernand Espitalion
- Une histoire pétillante
1935
- Ferdinand the Roisterer as Ferdinand Piat
- Jim the Crook as Moluchet
1934
- I Have an Idea as Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)
- The Free Trade Hotel as Boulot, le garçon d'étage
- Angele as Saturnin
- Maruche as Maruche
- The Lafleur Cavalryman as Fernand Lafleur
- The Bread Peddler as Billenbuis
- The Eight-Forty-Seven Train as Croquebol
- A Night of Madness as Fernand
- Navy Blue as Lafraise
- The Amorous Garrison as Frédéric, rider
- Skylark as Michelet
- Le Chéri de sa concierge
1933
- Lidoire as Lidoire
- Ça colle
- The Rooster of the Regiment as Medard
- Le Jugement de minuit as Sam Hackitt
- L'Ordonnance malgré lui
- Love and Cool Water as Eloi, le chauffeur
- La Terreur de la pampa
- Le Gros Lot
- The Orderly as Etienne
1932
- Lilac as le garçon d'honneur
- No Women as Casimir
- Par habitude
- Un homme sans nom
- Sailor's Song
- He as Isidore
- Fun in the Barracks as Vanderague
- Vive la classe
1931
- Night attack as L'amant
- The Darling of Paris as Ficelle
- Baby's Laxative as Truchet
- Black and White as Le groom
- Bric a Brac and Company as Fernand
- The End Combine as Joseph, le valet de chambre
- Pas un mot à ma femme
1930
- I have something to tell you as l'amant qui s'est trompé d'étage
- The best hostess as Lucien Pivoine