Fernandel
Acting • Born 1903-05-08 – Died 1971-02-26
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
158 credits
1958: Those Who Said No
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Ça colle
Movie • 1933
The Return of Don Camillo
Movie • 1953
Don Camillo Tarocci
Don Camillo's Last Round
Movie • 1955
Don Camillo Tarocci
Don Camillo: Monsignor
Movie • 1961
Don Camillo Tarocci
The Little World of Don Camillo
Movie • 1952
Don Camillo Tarocci
Paris Holiday
Movie • 1958
Fernydel
Escale au soleil
Movie • 1947
Guide
The Red Inn
Movie • 1951
The Monk
The Sleepwalker
Movie • 1951
Victor Boniface
Harvest
Movie • 1937
Urbain Gedemus
Don Camillo in Moscow
Movie • 1965
Don Camillo Tarocci
Angele
Movie • 1934
Saturnin
Fric-Frac
Movie • 1939
Marcel
Lilac
Movie • 1932
le garçon d'honneur
Black and White
Movie • 1931
Le groom
The Lucky Star
Movie • 1943
Auguste
Josette
Movie • 1937
Albert Durandal
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Movie • 1954
Ali Baba
Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Movie • 1950
Fortuné Richard
Heartbeat
Movie • 1938
Irénée Fabre, 'le Schpountz'
Topaze
Movie • 1951
Albert Topaze
The Wild Oat
Movie • 1953
Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker
Croesus
Movie • 1960
Crésus
My Wife's Husband
Movie • 1963
Fernand Jouvin
Sailor's Song
Movie • 1932
Vive la classe
Movie • 1932
The Italian Straw Hat
Movie • 1941
Fadinard
Maruche
Movie • 1934
Maruche
L'Ordonnance malgré lui
Movie • 1933
La Terreur de la pampa
Movie • 1933
Le Jugement de minuit
Movie • 1933
Sam Hackitt
The Darling of Paris
Movie • 1931
Le Gros Lot
Movie • 1933
Le Chéri de sa concierge
Movie • 1934
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Movie • 1962
Dieu / God
The Smart People of the 11th
Movie • 1937
The orderly Patard
The Virtuous Bigamist
Movie • 1956
Paul Verdier
Life Dances On
Movie • 1937
Fabien Coutissol
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Movie • 1951
Adhémar Pomme
Easiest Profession
Movie • 1957
Baptistin Lachaud aka 'Tistin'
French Touch
Movie • 1952
Mario Marius
The Most Wanted Man
Movie • 1953
Joe Calvet
Gangster Boss
Movie • 1959
Antoine Venturen
Honoré de Marseille
Movie • 1956
Honoris, le guerrier grec, Honorius, le romain, Honoré maître tailleur à Marseille
Caught in the Foreign Legion
Movie • 1950
Luc, doorman of the "Miramar"
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Movie • 1954
Edouard de Saint-Forget
The Law Is the Law
Movie • 1958
Ferdinand Pastorelli
Ignace
Movie • 1937
Ignace Boitaclou, jeune paysan, ordonnance du colonel
The Well-Digger's Daughter
Movie • 1940
Félipe Rambert
The Hunting Ground
Movie • 1951
Urbain Coindet, paysan et conseiller municipal
L'Aventure de Cabassou
Movie • 1946
Cabassou
Spring, Autumn and Love
Movie • 1955
Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatier
That Tender Age
Movie • 1964
Adolphe Lartigue
Simple-Minded
Movie • 1942
Simplet, 'le fada de Miéjour'
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1961
The widower
Sénéchal the Magnificent
Movie • 1957
François, Lucien Sénéchal
One of the Legion
Movie • 1936
Fernand Espitalion
Raphaël le tatoué
Movie • 1939
Modeste Manosque
Ernest the Rebel
Movie • 1938
Ernest Pic
The Cow and I
Movie • 1959
Charles Bailly
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Movie • 1939
Armand Lavarède
Life Together
Movie • 1958
Marcel Caboufigue
Mademoiselle Nitouche
Movie • 1954
Célestin / Floridor
Relax Yourself Darling
Movie • 1964
François Faustin
Little Nothings
Movie • 1941
Astier
Adrien
Movie • 1943
Adrien Moulinet
Assassin in the Phonebook
Movie • 1962
Albert Rimond
Barnabé
Movie • 1938
Barnabé
Berlingot and Company
Movie • 1939
François Arnaud
Blague dans le coin
Movie • 1963
Jeff Burlington
Three Feet in a Bed
Movie • 1950
Casimir
Dynamite Jack
Movie • 1961
Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu
Ferdinand the Roisterer
Movie • 1935
Ferdinand Piat
Forbidden Fruit
Movie • 1952
Dr. Charles Pellegrin
Fun in the Barracks
Movie • 1932
Vanderague
Good King Dagobert
Movie • 1963
M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert
Carnival
Movie • 1953
Dardamelle
The Lafleur Cavalryman
Movie • 1934
Fernand Lafleur
Three Sinners
Movie • 1950
Noël Annequin
Jim la houlette
Movie • 1935
Moluchet
The Acrobat
Movie • 1941
Ernest Sauce
The Cupboard Was Bare
Movie • 1948
Alfred Puc
St. Val's Mystery
Movie • 1945
Désiré Le Sec
Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Movie • 1970
Antonin
The Trip to Biarritz
Movie • 1963
Guillaume Dodut
Les Bleus de la marine
Movie • 1934
Lafraise
Love Around the Clock
Movie • 1943
Antonin
The Man in the Raincoat
Movie • 1957
Albert Constantin
Monsieur Hector
Movie • 1940
Hector
The Man in the Buick
Movie • 1968
Armand Favrot
The Woman's Confidant
Movie • 1959
Giuliano Goberti
Fernandel the Dressmaker
Movie • 1956
Fernand Vignard
Your Money or Your Life
Movie • 1966
Charles Migue
The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Movie • 1949
Boniface
Le Coq du régiment
Movie • 1933
Medard
Father's Trip
Movie • 1966
Quantin, Jura farmer
Francis the First
Movie • 1937
Honorin
Baby's Laxative
Movie • 1931
Truchet
Fernandel 3 films
Movie
Naïs
Movie • 1945
Toine
The Free Trade Hotel
Movie • 1934
Boulot, le garçon d'étage
Pétrus
Movie • 1946
Pétrus
The Mondesir Heir
Movie • 1940
Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeux
Rooster Heart
Movie • 1946
Tulipe Barbaroux, ouvrier imprimeur
Les Vignes du Seigneur
Movie • 1958
Henri Levrier, l'ami d'Hubert, producteur de champagne
Don Juan
Movie • 1956
Sganarelle / Falso Don Juan
Cocagne
Movie • 1961
Marc-Antoine
The Kings of Sport
Movie • 1937
Acteur
The Changing of the Guard
Movie • 1962
Attilio Capellaro
The best hostess
Movie • 1930
Lucien Pivoine
The Boss
Movie • 1960
Justin Migonnet, professor of philosophy in Arles
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Tricoche and Cacolet
Movie • 1938
Tricoche
I'm in the Revue
Movie • 1950
Philippe, devout house painter
Le Petit Monde de Fernandel
Movie • 2020
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Movie • 1948
Martial Gonfaron
The Suitors Club
Movie • 1941
Antoine Valoisir
Skylark
Movie • 1934
Michelet
Par habitude
Movie • 1932
Pas un mot à ma femme
Movie • 1931
Emile the African
Movie • 1948
Emile Boulard
I have something to tell you
Movie • 1930
l'amant qui s'est trompé d'étage
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Movie • 1943
Vincent Fleuret
The Amorous Garrison
Movie • 1934
Frédéric, rider
The Wonderful Night
Movie • 1940
le berger
Hercule
Movie • 1938
Hercule Maffre
Love and Cool Water
Movie • 1933
Eloi, le chauffeur
He
Movie • 1932
Isidore
Le train de 8 H 47
Movie • 1934
Croquebol
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
French Coachman
Une histoire pétillante
Movie • 1936
Bric a Brac and Company
Movie • 1931
Fernand
The Orderly
Movie • 1933
Etienne
A Night of Madness
Movie • 1934
Fernand
Les Gaîtés de la finance
Movie • 1936
Marivol Lambinet
We Request an Assassin
Movie • 1949
Bob
No Women
Movie • 1932
Casimir
Irma la voyante
Movie • 1947
Irma / Le client
The End Combine
Movie • 1931
Joseph, le valet de chambre
Hoboes in Paradise
Movie • 1945
Pons
I Have an Idea
Movie • 1934
Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)
Fernandel c'est moi
Movie • 2000
A Dog's Life
Movie • 1943
Gustave Bourdillon
Lidoire
Movie • 1933
Lidoire
The Phoney War
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Night attack
Movie • 1931
L'amant
Un homme sans nom
Movie • 1932
The Bread Peddler
Movie • 1934
Billenbuis
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Stasera Fernandel
TV • 1968
Monsieur Fernand
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
L'Amateur
TV • 1967
Fernand
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self (archive footage)