Fernandel
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)
Born: May 8, 1903
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Known For
Irma la voyante
Fernandel c'est moi
1958: Those Who Said No
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
Cinépanorama
Le Petit Monde de Fernandel
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 always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Les Rois de la comédie
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
Dynamite Jack
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to discover the friend he was to meet there has been murdered. Worse, it is not long before Antoine realizes he is Jack's perfect lookalike. All the same, he decides to settle down in the small town, where he becomes the local tax collector. One day, he finds himself face to face with the bandit...
The Return of Don Camillo
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Antonin
as Monsieur Fernand
as Armand Favrot
as Fernand
as Quantin, Jura farmer
as Charles Migue
as Don Camillo Tarocci
as Adolphe Lartigue
as François Faustin
as Fernand Jouvin
as M. Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert
as Jeff Burlington
as Guillaume Dodut
as Attilio Capellaro
as Self
as Dieu / God
as Albert Rimond
as Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu
as The widower
as Don Camillo Tarocci
as Marc-Antoine
as Crésus
as Justin Migonnet, professor of philosophy in Arles
as Charles Bailly
as Giuliano Goberti
as Antoine Venturen
as Self
as Marcel Caboufigue
as Ferdinand Pastorelli
as Henri Levrier, l'ami d'Hubert, producteur de champagne
as Fernydel
as Baptistin Lachaud aka 'Tistin'
as François, Lucien Sénéchal
as Albert Constantin
as Paul Verdier
as Honoris, le guerrier grec, Honorius, le romain, Honoré maître tailleur à Marseille
as French Coachman
as Sganarelle / Falso Don Juan
as Fernand Vignard
as Self
as Don Camillo Tarocci
as Fernand "Noël" Sarrazin, nougatier
as Ali Baba
as Edouard de Saint-Forget
as Célestin / Floridor
as Joe Calvet
as Don Camillo Tarocci
as Dardamelle
as Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker
as Dr. Charles Pellegrin
as Mario Marius
as Don Camillo Tarocci
as The Monk
as Urbain Coindet, paysan et conseiller municipal
as Adhémar Pomme
as Victor Boniface
as Albert Topaze
as Luc, doorman of the "Miramar"
as Noël Annequin
as Fortuné Richard
as Casimir
as Philippe, devout house painter
as Bob
as Boniface
as Alfred Puc
as Martial Gonfaron
as Emile Boulard
as Irma / Le client
as Guide
as Tulipe Barbaroux, ouvrier imprimeur
as Pétrus
as Cabassou
as Toine
as Désiré Le Sec
as Pons
as Adrien Moulinet
as Antonin
as Vincent Fleuret
as Gustave Bourdillon
as Auguste
as Simplet, 'le fada de Miéjour'
as Antoine Valoisir
as Fadinard
as Ernest Sauce
as Astier
as le berger
as Félipe Rambert
as Hector
as Bien-Aimé, le facteur, le baron de Mondésir et ses aïeux
as Marcel
as François Arnaud
as Armand Lavarède
as Modeste Manosque
as Ernest Pic
as Tricoche
as Barnabé
as Irénée Fabre, 'le Schpountz'
as Hercule Maffre
as Urbain Gedemus
as Acteur
as Fabien Coutissol
as Ignace Boitaclou, jeune paysan, ordonnance du colonel
as The orderly Patard
as Honorin
as Albert Durandal
as Fernand Espitalion
as Marivol Lambinet
as Moluchet
as Ferdinand Piat
as Fernand Lafleur
as Un passant dans la rue (uncredited)
as Boulot, le garçon d'étage
as Saturnin
as Michelet
as Lafraise
as Croquebol
as Fernand
as Frédéric, rider
as Billenbuis
as Maruche
as Eloi, le chauffeur
as Etienne
as Medard
as Sam Hackitt
as Lidoire
as Vanderague
as Casimir
as le garçon d'honneur
as Isidore
as L'amant
as Joseph, le valet de chambre
as Truchet
as Fernand
as Le groom
as Lucien Pivoine
as l'amant qui s'est trompé d'étage