Acting
Fernandel
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").
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Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Fernandel
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée soirée
Discorama
Cinépanorama
Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which h...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with...
The Little World of Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are...
The Return of Don Camillo
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Commun...
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly...
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten...
L'Amateur
L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Ove...
Don Camillo's Last Round
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions...
Stasera Fernandel
Your Money or Your Life
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amoun...
The Wild Oat
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregna...
The Law Is the Law
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village it...
The Cow and I
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy...
The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades...
Harvest
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the...
My Wife's Husband
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his dispariti...
Angele
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a...
The Woman's Confidant
A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of D...
Don Camillo in Moscow
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting...
The Most Wanted Man
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a g...
The Virtuous Bigamist
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wi...
The Last Judgment
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day....
The Cupboard Was Bare
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishi...
Adrien
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His lates...
Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Paris Holiday
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted f...
The Sheep Has Five Legs
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
The Man in the Buick
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a tr...
Francis the First
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play...