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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Movies
1958: Those Who Said No
Self (archive footage)
Les rois de la comédie
Lui-même (archives)
Ça colle
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Don Camillo Tarocci
The Return of Don Camillo
Don Camillo Tarocci
Don Camillo's Last Round
Don Camillo Tarocci
The Little World of Don Camillo
Don Camillo Tarocci
Paris Holiday
Fernydel
Escale au soleil
Guide
The Red Inn
Le Moine
The Sleepwalker
Victor Boniface
Harvest
Urbain Gedemus
Don Camillo in Moscow
Don Camillo Tarocci
Angele
Saturnin
Fric-Frac
Marcel
Lilac
le garçon d'honneur
Black and White
Le groom
The Lucky Star
Auguste
Josette
Albert Durandal
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Fortuné Richard
Heartbeat
Irénée Fabre
Topaze
Albert Topaze
The Wild Oat
Félicien Hébrard
Croesus
Crésus
My Wife's Husband
Fernand Jouvin
Sailor's Song
Vive la classe
The Italian Straw Hat
Fadinard
Maruche
L'Ordonnance malgré lui
La Terreur de la pampa
Le jugement de minuit
Sam Hackitt
The Darling of Paris
Le Gros Lot
Le Chéri de sa concierge
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Dieu / God
The Smart People of the 11th
The orderly Patard
The Virtuous Bigamist
Paul Verdier
Life Dances On
Fabien Coutissol
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Adhémar Pomme
Le Chômeur de Clochemerle
Baptistin Lachaud dit Tistin
French Touch
Mario Marius
The Most Wanted Man
Joe Calvet
Gangster Boss
Antoine Venturen
Honoré de Marseille
Honoris, le guerrier grec, Honorius, le romain, Honoré maître tailleur à Marseille
Caught in the Foreign Legion
Luc, portier du "Miramar" et André Duroc
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Edouard de Saint-Forget
The Law Is the Law
Ferdinand Pastorelli
Ignace
Ignace Boitaclou, jeune paysan, ordonnance du colonel
The Well-Digger's Daughter
Félipe Rambert
The Hunting Ground
Urbain Coindet, paysan et conseiller municipal
L'Aventure de Cabassou
Cabassou
Spring, Autumn and Love
Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatier
That Tender Age
Adolphe Lartigue
Simple-Minded
Simplet, le "fada" de Miéjour
The Last Judgment
The widower
One of the Legion
Fernand Espitalion
Sénéchal the Magnificent
François, Lucien Sénéchal
Raphaël le tatoué
Modeste Manosque
Ernest the Rebel
Ernest Pic
The Cow and I
Charles Bailly
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Armand Lavarède
Life Together
Marcel Caboufigue
Little Nothings
Astier
Relax Yourself Darling
François Faustin
Mademoiselle Nitouche
Célestin / Floridor
Blague dans le coin
Jeff Burlington
Adrien
Adrien Moulinet
Berlingot and Company
François Arnaud
Three Feet in a Bed
Casimir
Dynamite Jack
Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu
Assassin in the Phonebook
Albert Rimond
Barnabé
Barnabé
Ferdinand the Roisterer
Ferdinand Piat
Carnival
Dardamelle
Forbidden Fruit
Dr. Charles Pellegrin
Fun in the Barracks
Vanderague
Good King Dagobert
M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert
The Cupboard Was Bare
Alfred Puc
Jim la houlette
Moluchet
The Acrobat
Ernest Sauce
The Lafleur Cavalryman
Fernand Lafleur
Three Sinners
Noël Annequin
St. Val's Mystery
Désiré Le Sec
Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Antonin
Monsieur Hector
Hector
The Trip to Biarritz
Guillaume Dodut
Les Bleus de la marine
Lafraise
The Man in the Raincoat
Albert Constantin
Love Around the Clock
Antonin
The Man in the Buick
Armand Favrot
The Woman's Confidant
Giuliano Goberti
Fernandel the Dressmaker
Fernand Vignard
Your Money or Your Life
Charles Migue
Le Coq du régiment
Medard
The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Boniface
Father's Trip
Mr Quantin, paysan jurassien
François 1er
Honorin
Baby's Laxative
Truchet
Fernandel 3 films
Naïs
Toine
The Free Trade Hotel
Boulot, le garçon d'étage
Pétrus
Pétrus
Rooster Heart
Tulipe Barbaroux, ouvrier imprimeur
The Mondesir Heir
Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeux
Les Vignes du Seigneur
Henri Levrier, l'ami d'Hubert, producteur de champagne
Don Juan
Sganarelle / Falso Don Juan
Cocagne
Marc-Antoine
The Kings of Sport
Acteur
The Changing of the Guard
Attilio Capellaro
The best hostess
Lucien Pivoine
The Boss
Justin Migonnet, professeur de philosophie à Arles
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Tricoche and Cacolet
Tricoche
I'm in the Revue
Le peintre en bâtiment dévot
Le Petit Monde de Fernandel
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Martial Gonfaron
The Suitors Club
Antoine Valoisir
Skylark
Michelet
Pas un mot à ma femme
Par habitude
Emile the African
Emile Boulard
I have something to tell you
l'amant qui s'est trompé d'étage
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Vincent Fleuret
The Wonderful Night
le berger
The Amorous Garrison
(Paul, un "deuxième classe")
Hercule
Hercule Maffre
Love and Cool Water
Eloi, le chauffeur
He
Isidore
Le train de 8 H 47
Croquebol
Around the World in Eighty Days
French Coachman
Une histoire pétillante
Bric a Brac and Company
Fernand
The Orderly
Etienne
A Night of Madness
Fernand
Les Gaîtés de la finance
Marivol Lambinet
We Request an Assassin
Bob
No Women
Casimir
Irma la voyante
Irma / Le client
The end combine
Joseph, le valet de chambre
Hoboes in Paradise
Pons
I Have an Idea
Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)
Fernandel c'est moi
A Dog's Life
Gustave Bourdillon
Lidoire
Lidoire
The Phoney War
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Night attack
L'amant
Un homme sans nom
The Bread Peddler
Billenbuis
Shows
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Allo ! Fernandel
Monsieur Fernand
Discorama
Self
L'Amateur
Fernand
Champs-Elysées
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)