FernandelFilmography

Born:: May 8, 1903 in Marseilles, France
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin
Biography:: Born Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin, Fernandel was a great French comedy star with a long, toothy face and a shy manner. The son of a music-hall entertainer, he began performing while still a child; in his teens he supported himself in a variety of jobs while gaining experience as an amateur...Read More

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Fernandel: Flamboyant

Actors: Fernandel

2006
Heureux Qui Comme Ulysse

Actors: Fernandel, Rellys, Henri Tisot

Synopsis: Antonin (Fernandel) works on a farm and takes care of the animals in this sentimental comedy. When his boss tells him his favorite old horse has been sold, he takes off with the animal. His goal is to release the horse to run free in the South of France. Antonin runs across a rival who has married Read More

1969
Le Voyage du Père

Actors: Fernandel, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Madeleine Robinson, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered husband whose wife Isabelle (Lilli Palmer) constantly bothers him for not having enough money to spend on their daughters. When the eldest daughter is unable to come home Read More

9/16/66
La Bourse Et La Vie

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Poiret, Jean Carmet, Heinz Rühmann

4/27/66
Il Compagno Don Camillo

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Gianni Garko, Graziella Granata, Leda Gloria

Synopsis: Don Camillo (Fernandel) is a priest who travels to Moscow in this comedy culture clash. Don accompanies his archival communist mayor Peppone (Gino Cervi) and his wife (Leda Gloria) on a goodwill trip to the Soviet Union, and the priest is helped by the beautiful guide Nadia (Graziella Granata). Read More

9/18/65
Relaxe Toi Cherie

Actors: Fernandel, Sandra Milo, Jean Lefebvre, Maurice Chevit

8/19/64
L'Age Ingrat

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Gabin, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter in this family comedy drama. Adelphe (Fernandel) tries to ease the visitors from Paris into the more laid-back life of the South. The two future fathers-in-law slowly becomes Read More

1964
La Cuisine au Beurre

Actors: Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier, Henri Vilbert, Andrex, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In this WWII comedy, a French POW escapes and hides at an inn. After the war, he stays at the inn to help the innkeeper, whom he has become involved with, rather than return to his wife. When the innkeeper's husband shows up ten years later, the POW goes back to his wife, whom he finds married to Read More

12/20/63
Le Bon Roi Dagobert

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Marthe Mercadier, Pascale Roberts

11/20/63
Le Voyage A Biarritz

Actors: Fernandel, Arletty, Rellys, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: There is nothing especially exceptional about this comedy-drama which focuses on a certain Guillaume (Fernandel) who lives in a small town and is beset by a series of changing circumstances. He is the stationmaster for the town and becomes more than a little worried when the one train that is Read More

3/15/63
Blague Dans le Coin

Actors: Fernandel, Perette Pradier, François Maistre, Folco Jacques Monod

1963
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

9/14/62
En Avant La Musique

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi

1962
Dynamite Jack

Actors: Fernandel, Eleonora Vargas, Adrienne Corri, Lucien Raimbourg

Synopsis: Fernandel plays a most unlikely western bandit in the French spoof Dynamite Jack. Actually, the horse-faced comedian essays a dual role. He is seen as a rough-n-touch gunfighter and as a bumbling French immigrant. Inevitably, the two personalities are confused, leading to no end of slapstick Read More

11/3/61
Don Camillo Monseigneur

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Gina Rovere, Leda Gloria

10/7/61
Cocagne

Actors: Fernandel, Dora Doll, Rellys, Andrex

3/8/61
L'Assassin Est Dans L'Annuaire

Actors: Fernandel, Maurice Teynac, Marie Déa, Edith Scob

Synopsis: Famed French comic Fernandel cannot do much for this uninspired mystery story with intended comedic overtones by director Leo Joannon. Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that Read More

1961
II Giudizio Universale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More

1961
Le Caid

Actors: Fernandel, Barbara Laage, René Alié, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Between 1951 and 1972 Bernard Borderie directed many "B"-grade films, and this low-budget, rapidly made comedy is one of them. Fernandel stars as Migonnet, a philosophy instructor who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He unintentionally ends up with the loot from a high-end Read More

1960
Invitation to Paris

Synopsis: This musical performance features the streets of Paris and the girls of the French Can-Can. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1960
Cresus

Actors: Fernandel, Rellys, Paul Preboist, Sylvie, René Génin

Synopsis: This is a routine comedy by novice director and novelist Jean Giono about Jules (Fernandel) a wily French peasant who dallies with a local widow and enjoys spats with his fellow sheepherders. One day he comes across a hidden stash of money and throws a party for all his friends, making them Read More

1960
La Vache et le Prisonnier

Actors: Fernandel, Pierre Louis, Richard Winckler, Albert Remy, Franciska Kinz, René Havard

Synopsis: The Cow and I is purportedly based on the wartime experiences of its star, French farceur Fernandel. The horse-faced comedian plays a French farmer stuck in Germany strong-armed into working for the Nazis. Deciding to escape, Fernandel and his faithful cow walk across Deutschland to his home in Read More

12/16/59
Le Grand Chef

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Jean-Jacques Delbo

Synopsis: French comedian Fernandel stars in this entertaining comedy based on a short story by O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief. Antoine (Fernandel) has the brilliant idea of kidnapping the son of a millionaire in order to raise the money he and his partner Paolo (Gino Cervi) need to buy their own auto Read More

3/20/59
La Loi C'est la Loi

Actors: Fernandel, Totò, Noël Roquevert, Nathalie Nerval, Leda Gloria

Synopsis: Fernandel plays a French customs sergeant who conducts an ongoing war of nerves with Italian smuggler Toto on the Franco-Italian border. The French sergeant discovers that, through a long-ago hospital mix-up, he is actually an Italian citizen. Now Fernandel is legally prevented from arresting Read More

10/27/58
Les Vignes Du Seigneur

Actors: Fernandel, Pierre Dux, Simone Valere

Synopsis: Henri (Fernandel) returns to his homeland after spending several years abroad. Staying with a wealthy friend, he finds his friend is involved with a woman. The woman turns out to be Henri's former lover, and sparks rekindle between them. However, the flame goes out when Henri embarks on a harmless Read More

1958
La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

1958
Senechal the Magnificent

Synopsis: The French-filmed Senechal the Magnificent is set during World War II. Fernandel plays a none-too-intelligent travelling entertainer who, through a case of mistaken identity, takes the place of a famed nightclub artiste named Senechal. Fernandel's gift for mimicry makes him a big hit in Paris; Read More

1958
Le Confident De Ces Dames

Actors: Fernandel, Denise Grey, Ugo Tognazzi, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Le Confident de ces Dames is a wacky though uneven comedy held up by the talents of Fernandel, playing a veterinarian. The vet's life is turned around completely when he finds himself assisting a woman who has been injured in an accident. He pulls the woman through the worst of the crisis and Read More

1958
Senechal Le Magnifique

Actors: Fernandel, Roland Armontel, Liliane Patrick

5/24/57
L'Homme à l'Imperméable

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Rigaux, Bernard Blier, Jacques Duby, John McGiver

Synopsis: The raincoated gent of the title is horse-faced French comedian Fernandel, who plays luckless jazz musician Albert Constantin. Thanks to the chicanery of a slick gangster boss, Albert finds himself up to his ears in murder and treachery. The farcical elements of the film are juxtaposed with Read More

2/22/57
Un Amor de Don Juan

Synopsis: Horse-faced farceur Fernandel is definitely not the title character in the Franco-Spanish spoof Don Juan. Like Bob Hope in Casanova's Big Night, our hero is merely the servant of the the legendary Latin lover. To save Don Juan from political intrigue, Fernandel disguises himself as his boss, with Read More

1957
Le Chomeur De Clochemerle

Actors: Fernandel, Rellys, Maria Mauban

Synopsis: The title of this French satirical comedy translates to The Unemployed Man of Clochemerle. In point of fact, there's only one unemployed man in the town Clochemerle, and that's the hapless Tistin (Fernandel). Obliged to use their tax money to keep Tistin from starving, the other townspeople insist Read More

1957
Paris Holiday

Actors: Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, Preston Sturges

Synopsis: Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris Holiday. Since Hope coauthored the script, however, guess which actor has the largest part. Cast more or less as himself, Hope plays an American comedian who comes to Paris to Read More

1957
Don Juan

Actors: Fernandel, Erno Crisa, Carmen Sevilia, Christine Carère

5/9/56
Le Couturier de ces Dames

Actors: Fernandel, Suzy Delair, Françoise Fabian, Georges Chamarat, Robert Pizani

Synopsis: This Gallic farce is better known to "Late Late Show" fanatics as Fernandel the Dressmaker. Sure enough, horse-faced comedian Fernandel is cast as a couturier, permitting director Jean Boyer to trot out a variety of underdressed young ladies at the slightest opportunity. The plot concerns Read More

1956
Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

1/1/56
Honore de Marseille

Actors: Fernandel, Andrex, Rellys

1956
Sous Le Ciel De Provence

Actors: Fernandel, Andrex, Suzet Mais, Giulia Rubini

Synopsis: France's Fernandel and Italy's Alberto Sordi provide an abundance of laughs in Sous le Ciel de Provence (Under Skies of Provence). Fernandal plays a travelling salesman who makes the mistake of his life when he offers to help his fellow bus passenger, a very pretty and very pregnant young lady Read More

1956
Don Camillo e l'Onorevole Peppone

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria

Synopsis: Don Camillo e l'on Peppone was the third in a series of film comedies based on characters created by Giovanni Gareschi. Fernandel and Gino Cervi return as, repectively, resourceful Italian village priest Don Camillo and his friendly enemy, Communist mayor Peppone. This time, the two adversaries Read More

10/25/55
Le Printemps, L'Automne et L'Amour

Actors: Fernandel, Nicole Berger, Claude Nollier, Philippe Nicaud, Andrex, Georges Chamarat

Synopsis: Perhaps because its American distribution was brief, Le Printemps, L'Autumne et L'Amour is one of the lesser-known Fernandel vehicles. The lantern-jawed comedian plays a confirmed middle-aged bachelor, whose life is radically altered when he rescues 18-year-old Nicole Berger from drowning. Out of Read More

6/3/55
La Grande Bagarre De Don Camillo

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain, Gaston Rey

1955
Mam'zelle Nitouche

Actors: Fernandel, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Mam'zelle Nitouche represented Fernandel's only 1954 film vehicle. The horse-faced comic actor is cast as Celestin, an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular Read More

4/21/54
Ali Baba

Actors: Fernandel, Dieter Borsche, Samia Gamal, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Fernandel is the somewhat over-aged Ali Baba in this astonishingly expensive Arabian Nights escapade. In this filmization of the old "Arabian Knights" tale, Ali Baba is a slave who is sent to fetch his master's latest wife (Samia Gamal). The horse-faced family retainer falls in love with the girl Read More

1954
Le Mouton à Cinq Pattes

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Andrex, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. We first see the horse-faced one as an elderly wine grower, looking forward to an upcoming family reunion with mixed emotions. One by one, the other five Fernandels make their appearances; these are the Read More

1954
L'Ennemi Public Numero Un

Actors: Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nicole Maurey, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Lantern-jawed French comedian Fernandel plays a dual role in Most Wanted Man. He stars as an ordinary Joe (or ordinary Pierre, perhaps) who is the exact double of a notorious gangster. In the tradition of Edward G. Robinson's The Whole Town's Talking, Fernandel must take the place of the criminal Read More

12/22/53
Le Retour de Don Camillo

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Alexandre Rignault, Edouard Delmont

Synopsis: Retour de Don Camillo (The Return of Don Camillo) is the sequel to the internationally popular French comedy The Little World of Don Camillo. Fernandel returns as the title character, a resourceful, pugnacious Italian village priest. Because of his previous run-ins with communist mayor Peppone (Gino Cervi Read More

6/5/53
Le Boulanger de Valorgue

Actors: Fernandel, Georges Chamarat, Jean Gaven, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Fernandel plays the Raimu-like title character in Le Boulanger de Valorgue (The Baker of Valorgue). A young girl (Pierette Bruno) deposits a baby at baker Fernandel's doorstep, insisting that the child's father is the baker's own son, who is currently in the army. Despite his pronounced lack of Read More

2/27/53
Carnival

Synopsis: An irate husband announces his wife's adulterous activities by placing a billboard a top his house in this comedy. He then begins to organize a society of cuckolded spouses. They design a float for the carnival parade and win first prize. In the end the errant wife returns and the husband makes a Read More

1953
Carnaval

Actors: Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Mireille Perrey

Synopsis: The winning combination of star Fernandel and director Henri Verneuil scored another success with 1953's Carnaval. Fernandel plays Dardamelle, an architect who is only mildly put out when he discovers that his wife Francine (Jacqueline Pagnol) has been unfaithful. In fact, he takes great pride Read More

1953
Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Franco Interlenghi, Vera Talqui, Sylvie

Synopsis: Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the town's communist-leaning mayor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

3/15/52
Coiffeur pour Dames

Actors: Fernandel, Blanchette Brunoy, Renee Devillers, Georges Chamarat, Arlette Poirier

Synopsis: Monsieur Fernandel plays the sheep-shearer, who makes a decision to say goodbye to the little lambs and to concentrate on the beautiful mademoiselles. Sacre bleu! It is tres funny (almost like the Jerry Lewis film, yes?) when Fernandel becomes the hairdresser, and begins clipping the ladies Read More

1952
Le Fruit Défendu

Actors: Fernandel, Claude Nollier, Françoise Arnoul, Sylvie, René Génin

Synopsis: The unbeatable combination of star Fernandel and director Henri Verneuil strikes again with Le Fruit Defendu (Forbidden Fruit). Fernandel plays a rural doctor, trapped in a dull, uneventful marriage. During a visit to the city, the doctor falls for a young lady (Francoise Arnoul) of very loose Read More

1952
Adhemar Ou Le Jouet De La Fatalite

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernandel, Andrex, Marguerite Pierry, Marcel Lévesque

1951
La Table Aux Creves

Actors: Fernandel, Maria Mauban, Edouard Delmont, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: The English-language title of La Table Aux-Creves is The Hunting Ground. Fernandel goes the "Raimu" route as a farmer whose wife unexpectedly commits suicide. The grieving husband tries to fathom the reasons for his wife's rash act, while the local townsfolk come up with a few bizarre theories of Read More

1951
Topaze

Actors: Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Pierre Larquey, Sylvia Bataille, Jacques Morel

Synopsis: Previously filmed twice in 1933, Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage comedy Topaze was again adapted to the screen in 1936, this time with Pagnol himself as director (he would have directed the first version, but was contractually prohibited from doing so). This time around, Arnaudy stars as M. Read More

1951
L'Auberge Rouge

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Gregoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Jacques Charon

Synopsis: Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a remote rural area of France. The inn's proprietors Pierre (Carette) and Marie (Francoise Rosay) industriously support themselves by murdering the various stagecoach passengers Read More

1951
Boniface Somnambule

Actors: Fernandel, Mathilde Casadesus, Yves Deniaud

1951
Je Suis de la Revue

Actors: Fernandel, Suzy Delair, Louis Armstrong, Katherine Dunham

Synopsis: Two Italian films directed by Mario Soldati were released in Europe within two days of each other. The first was the lighthearted musical comedy Je Suis de la Revue. The vivacious Suzy Delair, more or less playing herself, stars as a popular actress making a personal appearance in Rome. The Read More

1951
Meurtres

Actors: Fernandel, Raymond Souplex, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Moreau, Fernand Sardou

Synopsis: Produced in 1950, the French Three Sinners was adapted by Charles Plisnier from his own novel Meurtres. The film was billed as the dramatic debut of comic-actor Fernandel, and though it really wasn't, he acquits himself nicely in a rare serious assignment. The topic is euthanasia: Noel Annequin's (Fernandel Read More

1950
Uniformes Et Grandes Manoeuvres

Actors: Fernandel, Andrex, Paulette Dubost, Therese Dorny

1950
Casimir

Actors: Fernandel, Germaine Montero, Bernard Lajarrige

Synopsis: Famed French actor and singer Fernandel headlines this comedy centered on a case of mistaken identity involving a hapless vacuum salesman. Door-to-door vacuum salesman Casimir has a strange knack for getting himself into complicated situations. One day, after knocking on the door of local artist Read More

1950
Tu M'as Sauve La Vie

Actors: Fernandel, Lana Marconi, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sacha Guitry

1950
On Demande Un Assassin

Actors: Fernandel, Noelle Norman, Felix Oudart, Armand Bernard

1949
L'Heroique Monsieur Boniface

Actors: Liliane Bert, Fernandel, Andrex, Yves Deniaud

1949
L'Armoire Volante

Actors: Fernandel, Pauline Carton, Germaine Kerjean

1948
Si Ca Peut Vous Faire Plaisir

Actors: Mona Dol, Fernandel, Fernand Sardou

1948
Emile L'Africain

Actors: Fernandel, Noelle Norman, Alexandre Rignault

1947
Coeur De Coq

Actors: Mireille Perrey, Fernandel

1946
Petrus

Actors: Fernandel, Pierre Brasseur, Simone Simon, Corinne Calvet

Synopsis: Petrus is a tailor-made vehicle for lantern-jawed French farceur Fernandel. The star plays a naïve photographer who falls in love with nightclub dancer Simone Simon. Though she travels in a more sophisticated crowd, Fernandel never gives up his dream that someday the girl will be his. And sure Read More

1946
Nais

Actors: Fernandel, Jacqueline Bouvier, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon, Arius

Synopsis: Marcel Pagnol adapted the screenplay of Nais from a novel by Emile Zola. The usually mirth-provoking Fernandel plays it relatively straight as a hunchbacked itinerant worker. He loves Jacqueline Pagnol from afar, but is prevented by his handicap from expressing his ardor. Thus he vicariously Read More

1945
Les Gueux Au Paradis

Actors: Gaby Andreu, Fernandel, Raimu, Armand Bernard

Synopsis: Les Gueux Au Paradis (Hoboes in Paradise) stars two of Marseilles' favorite sons, Fernandel and Raimu. Set during the reign of Louis XV, the film casts Raimu as an innkeeper and Fernandel as his best friend. Dressed up as saints for a masquerade, the two pals are killed in a carriage mishap. They Read More

1945
L'Aventure De Cabassou

Actors: Micheline Francey, Fernandel, Henri Vilbert, Henri Poupon

1945
Le Mystere Saint Val

Actors: Fernandel, Germaine Kerjean, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Le Mystere de Saint-Val stars Fernandel as a mousy insurance-office clerk who dreams of being a great detective. The clerk's uncle, who also happens to be his boss, tries to cure his nephew of his delusions by sending him off on a wild-goose chase. As things turn out, Fernandel gets mixed up in a Read More

1944
Adrien

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernandel, Paulette Dubost, Jean Tissier, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

1943
La Cavalcade Des Heures

Actors: Fernandel, Charles Trenet, Gaby Morlay

Synopsis: That matchless Gallic comedian Fernandel is but one of the many spicy ingredients of Love Around the Clock. The film's original title, La Cavalcade des Heures, was closer to the central theme: man's relation to, and utter reliance on, Time. Eight different stories are offered herein, each playlet Read More

1943
Ne Le Criez Pas Sur Les Toits

Actors: Meg Lemonnier, Fernandel

1942
Simplet

Crew: Director

Actors: Milly Mathis, Fernandel, Edouard Delmont

1942
La Bonne Etoile

Actors: Janine Darcey, Fernandel, Andrex

1942
Une Vie De Chien

Actors: Josseline Gael, Therese Dorny, Fernandel, Jim Gérald

1941
La Fille Du Puisatier

Actors: Raimu, Josette Day, Fernandel, Fernand Charpin, Line Noro, Georges Grey

Synopsis: The Well-Digger's Daughter served to reunite star Raimu and writer/director Marcel Pagnol, who'd earlier scored an international hit with the "Marseilles trilogy" (Fanny, Marius, Cesar). The title character played by Josette Day, is impregnated by aviator George Gray. Her father, Raimu, orders Read More

1941
Le Club Des Soupirants

Actors: Fernandel, Louise Carletti, Saturnin Fabre

1941
Les Petits Riens

Actors: Raimu, Fernandel, Suzy Prim, Claude Dauphin

1941
La Nuit Merveilleuse

Actors: Fernandel, Janine Darcey, Milly Mathis, Fernand Charpin

1940
Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie

Actors: Jacqueline Laurent, Milly Mathis, Fernandel

1940
Monsieur Hector

Actors: Denise Grey, Madeleine Suffel, Gaby Wagner, Fernandel

1940
L'Acrobate

Actors: Therese Dorny, Gaby Wagner, Fernandel, Jean Tissier

1940
Berlingot Et Cie

Actors: Suzy Prim, Fernandel, Fernand Charpin, Jean Brochard

1939
L'Heritier Des Mondesir

Actors: Fernandel, Felicien Tramel, Elvire Popesco, Jules Berry

Synopsis: That matchless French farceur Fernandel has a field day in L'Heritier de Mondesir (The Mondesir Heir). A wicked lampoon on astrology, the story is set in motion when the Baron de Mondesir dies suddenly, leaving a fortune behind. A rustic rube (Fernandel, who also plays six other roles!) finds Read More

1939
Les Cinq Sous de Lavarede

Actors: Josette Day, Fernandel, Marcel Vallee, Jean Dax

Synopsis: Filmed during the war, this little-known Fernandel vehicle finally attained an American release in 1951. The star plays Lavarede, an obnoxious braggart and spendthrift who falls heir to his uncle's fortune. But there's a condition to the will: in order to claim his uncle's millions, Lavarede must Read More

1939
Fric Frac

Actors: Arletty, Michel Simon, Marcel Vallee, Fernandel

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll. Unknown to the assistant, she is awaiting her lover's release. His relationship with the moll gets him involved with another who leads him into the burglary of his boss's store Read More

1939
Le Schpountz

Actors: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Robert Vattier, Fernand Charpin

Synopsis: Le Schpountz (Heartbeat) stars Fernandel as a feckless country boy named Saturnin. Convinced that he's a great lover (if only he could find someone to love), Saturnin is derisively labelled a "schpountz" by his friends and neighbors. He eventually proves that he's got a lot more compassion than Read More

4/15/38
Tricoche Et Cacolet

Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Elvire Popesco, Fernandel

1938
Raphael Le Tatoué

Actors: Fernandel, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard

1938
Barnabe

Actors: Paulette Dubost, Fernandel, Andrex

Synopsis: The inimitable Fernandel stars as Barnabe in this French musical farce. Most of the action takes place at a huge chateau, where Barnabe, the assistant to a big-time theatrical producer, has been assigned to stage a big show in honor of an upcoming society wedding. Thanks to series of bizarre Read More

1938
Ernest Le Rebelle

Actors: Fernandel, Mona Goya

1938
Les Rois Du Sport

Actors: Lisette Lanvin, Fernandel, Raimu

1937
Francois 1er

Actors: Mona Goya, Alice Tissot, Fernandel

Synopsis: Originally released in 1937 as Francois 1er, Christian-Jacque's Francis the First didn't attain an American release for nearly a decade. Horse-faced farceur Fernandel plays Honorin, a failed provincial actor. Lacking self-confidence, Honorin turns to a carnival hypnotist for aid. While under Read More

1937
Les Degourdis De La 11eme

Actors: Pauline Carton, Ginette Leclerc, Fernandel, André Lefaur

1937
Regain

Actors: Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno, Gabriel Gabrio

Synopsis: Originally Regain, this Marcel Pagnol masterwork was distributed in the US in 1939, two years after its completion; the hold-up was due to complaints from the New York censors, who disapproved of the plotline's harmlessly adulterous undertones. Told in a simple, straightforward fashion, the film Read More

1937
Hercule

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Nane Germon, Fernandel, Jules Berry

Synopsis: Horse-faced Gallic comedian Fernandel plays Hercule in this tailor-made vehicle. Our hero is a somewhat simple-minded provincial lad, at large in wicked old Paris. Somehow, Hercule finds success in the world of newspaper journalism, where his talents are exploited by a crooked advertising Read More

1937
Un Carnet De Bal

Actors: Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Françoise Rosay, Fernandel, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Richard-Willm

Synopsis: In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all of her former partners. Her search becomes the framework for the episodes. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1937
Ignace

Actors: Alice Tissot, Fernandel, Saturnin Fabre

1937
Un De La Legion

Actors: Suzy Prim, Fernandel, Paul Azäis, Therese Dorny

1936
Josette

Actors: Fernandel, Mona Goya

1936
Jim La Houlette

Actors: Mireille Perrey, Fernandel, Jacques Varennes

1935
Les Gaietes De La Finance

Actors: Ginette Leclerc, Fernandel, Raymond Cordy

1935
Ferdinand Le Noceur

Actors: Paulette Dubost, Pauline Carton, Fernandel, André Alerme

1935
Le Cheri De Sa Concierge

Actors: Alice Tissot, Yvette Lebon, Fernandel

1934
Le Cavalier Lafleur

Actors: Fernandel

1934
Les Bleus De La Marine

Actors: Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Colette Darfeuil

1934
Le Train De 8h47

Actors: Fernandel, Fernand Charpin, Fernand Ledoux

1934
Ademai Aviateur

Actors: Noël-Noël, Junie Astor, Fernandel, Paul Asselin

1934
Angele

Actors: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Henri Poupon, Andrex

Synopsis: French writer/director Marcel Pagnol didn't do much editing when he transferred Jean Glono's excessively long novel Angele to film. Orane Demaziz plays the title role, an innocent country girl who becomes a Parisian streetwalker thanks to a smooth-talking pimp. Angele's father fetches her back to Read More

1934
L'Hôtel du Libre Échange

Actors: Raymond Cordy, Fernandel

1934
La Porteuse De Pain

Actors: Germaine Dermoz, Jacques Gretillat, Simone Bourday, Samson Fainsilber

1934
Une Nuit De Folies

Actors: Dolly Davis, Fernandel, Jacques Varennes

1934
L'Ordonnance

Actors: Marcelle Chantal, Paulette Dubost, Jean Worms, Alexandre Rignault, Fernandel, Georges Rigaud

Synopsis: L'Odonnance (The Orderly) is based on the Guy de Maupassant story of the same name. After the sudden and unexpected suicide of his wife Helene (Marcelle Chantal), a grief-stricken Colonel (Jean Worms) comes into possession of a letter left behind by his wife. In flashback, the audience is apprised Read More

1933
La Garnison Amoureuse

Actors: Betty Stockfeld, Pierre Brasseur, Fernandel

1933
Le Coq Du Regiment

Actors: Ginette Gaubert, Fernandel, André Roanne

1933
Un Homme Sans Nom

Actors: Paul Amiot

1932
Les Gaietes De L'Escadron

Actors: Mady Berry, Henry Roussell, Raimu, Fernandel, Jean Gabin

Synopsis: Every so often, director Maurice Tourneur recharged his creative batteries with such trifles as Gaietes de L'Escadron. The title translates as Fun in the Barracks -- and yes, it is a military comedy. Based on the popular stage play by Georges Courteline, the story centers upon the relationship Read More

1932
Pas De Femmes

Actors: Fernandel

1932
Attaque Nocturne

Actors: Fernandel, Julien Carette, Madeleine Guitty

1931
Le Rosier De Madame Husson

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Mady Berry, Marguerite Perry, Fernandel, Marcel Simon, Marcel Carpentier

Synopsis: Also known as Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, He is based on a story by Guy De Maupassant. The story takes place in a tiny French village, where every year a cash prize is awarded the most virtuous girl in town. Alas, virtue is so rare a commodity that the villagers are compelled to select a boy as Read More

1931
Le Blanc et le Noir

Actors: Raimu, Fernandel, Pauline Carton

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry wrote the play on which Le Blanc et le Noir was based, but it was Hollywood-trained Robert Florey who officially handled the directorial reins. While vacationing in the mountains, child-hating Raimu leaves his wife Suzanne Dantes alone in their hotel room while he dallies with the Read More

1931
Paris-Beguin

Actors: Jean Gabin, Charles Lamy, Jean Max

Synopsis: Paris Beguin finds Parisian cinema star Jean Gabin playing a familiar role, that of the martyred criminal with a golden heart. A burglar by profession, Jean forces his way into an apartment one night. While he's ransacking the joint, the resident unexpectedly returns. It turns out to be a Read More

1931
On Purge Bebé

Actors: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry

1931
Coeur de Lilas

Actors: André Luguet, Marcelle Romee, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Guitty, Paul Pauley

Synopsis: Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consorting with the criminal scum of Paris. Lilac falls Read More

1931

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