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"). (Wikipedia)
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
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Don Camillo's Last Round
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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The Return of Don Camillo
as Don Camillo TarocciEnergetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal...
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Don Camillo in Moscow
as Don Camillo TarocciPriest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist...
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The Red Inn
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The Cow and I
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Angele
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The Last Judgment
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The Law Is the Law
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Father's Trip
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
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The Man in the Raincoat
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The Wild Oat
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The Most Wanted Man
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Heartbeat
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Black and White
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Life Dances On
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The Sleepwalker
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Honoré de Marseille
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Forbidden Fruit
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Ignace
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Rooster Heart
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Harvest
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Lilac
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Croesus
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Topaze
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French Touch
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Les Vignes du Seigneur
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Cocagne
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Naïs
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Life Together
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as HonorinHonorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition...
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Le Chômeur de Clochemerle
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Three Sinners
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Your Money or Your Life
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Sailor's Song
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The Lucky Star
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Le Coq du régiment
as MedardThe story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who...
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The Smart People of the 11th
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The Kings of Sport
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Dynamite Jack
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The Hunting Ground
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The Boss
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Ernest the Rebel
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
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Barnabé
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He
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The Orderly
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The Darling of Paris
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Les Gaîtés de la finance
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Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
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Carnival
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We Request an Assassin
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The Heroic Mr. Boniface
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Ferdinand the Roisterer
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1958: Those Who Said No
as Self (archive footage)On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a...
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Le train de 8 H 47
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Assassin in the Phonebook
as Albert RimondFernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from...
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Simple-Minded
as Simplet, 'le fada de Miéjour'A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.
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Raphaël le tatoué
as Modeste ManosqueModeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its...
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The Woman's Confidant
as Giuliano GobertiA veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since...
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The Acrobat
as Ernest SauceAfter a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has...
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The Five Cents of Lavarede
as Armand LavarèdeSome try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even...
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The Italian Straw Hat
as FadinardFadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his...
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Spring, Autumn and Love
as Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatierFernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding...
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Fun in the Barracks
as VanderagueThe life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
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The Bread Peddler
as BillenbuisA brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and...
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I Have an Idea
as Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)Aubrey is a debt-ridden man. One day, he has the idea of faking his death and taking on the...
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The Mondesir Heir
as Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeuxBienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he...
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Adrien
as Adrien MoulinetAdrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare...
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The Suitors Club
as Antoine ValoisirAs playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a...
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Love Around the Clock
as AntoninSymbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty...
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The Amorous Garrison
as (Paul, un "deuxième classe")In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three...
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Caught in the Foreign Legion
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The Virtuous Bigamist
as Paul VerdierThe Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his...
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The Wonderful Night
as le bergerA couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the...
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Good King Dagobert
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Le Jugement de minuit
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Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition....
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie
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Three Feet in a Bed
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Bric a Brac and Company
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The Lafleur Cavalryman
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L'Ordonnance malgré lui
as uncreditedThe colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a...
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Little Nothings
as AstierFollowing a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the...
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The Free Trade Hotel
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The best hostess
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Berlingot and Company
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Les Bleus de la marine
as LafraiseLafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon....
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Blague dans le coin
as Jeff BurlingtonA Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus...
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L'Aventure de Cabassou
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A Night of Madness
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La Terreur de la pampa
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Night attack
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Love and Cool Water
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One of the Legion
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Hercule
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St. Val's Mystery
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Tricoche and Cacolet
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I have something to tell you
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Jim la houlette
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Monsieur Hector
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No Women
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The end combine
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Skylark
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Ça colle
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Emile the African
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Hoboes in Paradise
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The Merv Griffin Show
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