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