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The Little World of Don Camillo Don Camillo

(1952)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Ali Baba

(1954)

Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité Adhémar Pomme

(1951)

Adrien Adrien Moulinet

(1943)

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Actor (154 credits)

1970 Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (Short)
Don Camillo

1970 Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Antonin

1969 Freddy (TV Movie)
Freddy

1968-1969 Stasera Fernandel (TV Mini Series)
Fernando / Il signor Fernando

- Terrore al castello/Nuit de terreur (1969) ... Il signor Fernando

- La Bomba (1969)

- Il Frac (1969) ... Fernando

- A me gli occhi/L'hypnotiseur (1968) ... Fernando

- Una tranquilla villeggiatura/Le masseur (1968)

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1968 The Man in the Buick
Armand Favrot

1967 L'amateur ou S.O.S. Fernand (TV Series)
Fernand

- Le somnambule (1967) ... Fernand

- Le sculpteur (1967) ... Fernand

- Le coup de fil (1967) ... Fernand

- La vicomtesse (1967) ... Fernand

- La valise (1967) ... Fernand

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1966 Paris ist eine Reise wert (TV Movie)
Detective

1966 Father's Trip
Quantin

1966 Your Money or Your Life
Charles Migue

1965 Das gibt's doch zweimal
2. Beatle - Musician

1965 Don Camillo in Moscow
Don Camillo

1964 That Tender Age
Adolphe Lartigue

1964 Relaxe-toi chérie
François Faustin

1963 My Wife's Husband
Fernand Jouvin - un restaurateur marseillais

1963 Good King Dagobert
Monsieur Pelletan / Le roi Dagobert

1963 Blague dans le coin
Jeff Burlington

1963 The Trip to Biarritz
Guillaume Dodut

1962 The Changing of the Guard
Attilio Cappelaro

1962 The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Dieu / God (segment "Un seul Dieu tu adoreras")

1962 Assassin in the Phonebook
Albert Rimond

1961 Dynamite Jack
Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu

1961 Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo
Don Camillo

1961 The Last Judgment
The widower

1961 Cocagne
Marc-Antoine

1960 The Boss
Justin Migonet

1960 Croesus
Jules

1959 The Cow and I
Charles Bailly - prisonnier de guerre

1959 The Woman's Confidant
Le vétérinaire Giuliano Goberti

1959 Gangster Boss
Antoine Venturen

1958 Vines of the Lord
Henri Lévrier

1958 Life as a Couple
Marcel Caboufigue

1958 The Law Is the Law
Ferdinand Pastorelli

1958 Paris Holiday
Fernydel

1957 Easiest Profession
Baptistin Lachaud dit Tistin

1957 Sénéchal the Magnificent
François, Lucien Sénéchal

1957 The Man in the Raincoat
Albert Constantin

1956 L'art d'être papa (Short)

1956 Le téléphone (Short)

1956 Honoré de Marseille
Honoré de Marseille / Protis / Honorius

1956 The Virtuous Bigamist
Paul Verdier / Paolo Verdier

1956 Around the World in 80 Days
French Coachman

1956 Don Juan
Sganarelle

1956 Fernandel the Dressmaker
Fernand Vignard

1955 Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone
Don Camillo

1955 Spring, Autumn and Love
Fernand 'Noël' Sarrazin

1954 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba

1954 The Sheep Has Five Legs
Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré et Etienne

1954 Miss Nitouche
Célestin / Floridor

1953 The Most Wanted Man
Joe Calvet

1953 The Return of Don Camillo
Don Camillo

1953 Carnaval
Dardamelle

1953 The Wild Oat
Félicien Hébrard - le boulanger

1952 Forbidden Fruit
Le docteur Charles Pellegrin

1952 French Touch
Marius, dit Mario

1952 The Little World of Don Camillo
Don Camillo

1951 Village Feud
Urbain Coindet

1951 Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité
Adhémar Pomme

1951 The Red Inn
The Monk

1951 The Sleepwalker
Victor Boniface

1951 Topaze
Albert Topaze

1950 La chèvre de Monsieur Seguin (Short)

1950 Caught in the Foreign Legion
Luc

1950 Three Sinners
Noël Annequin

1950 Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Fortuné Richard

1950 Three Feet in a Bed
Casimir

1950 I'm in the Revue
Philippe - le peintre dévot

1949 On demande un assassin
Bob

1949 The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Boniface

1948 The Cupboard Was Bare
Alfred Puc

1948 Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Martial Gonfaron

1948 Emile the African
Émile Boulard

1946 Coeur de coq
Tulipe

1946 Pétrus
Pétrus

1946 L'aventure de Cabassou
Cabassou

1946 Hoboes in Paradise
Pons

1945 Naïs
Toine

1945 St. Val's Mystery
Le détective Désiré, Henri Le Sec

1943 Guignol, Marionnette De France (Short)

1943 Adrien
Adrien Moulinet

1943 Love Around the Clock
Antonin

1943 Ne le criez pas sur les toits
Vincent Fleuret

1943 Une vie de chien
Gustave Bourdillon

1943 La bonne étoile
Auguste

1942 Little Nothings
Astier

1942 Simplet
Simplet

1941 Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
Fadinard

1941 Le club des soupirants
Antoine Valoisir

1941 L'acrobate
Ernest Sauce

1940 La nuit merveilleuse
Le berger

1940 The Well-Digger's Daughter
Félipe Rambert

1940 Monsieur Hector
Hector

1940 The Mondesir Heir
Bienaimé de Mondésir, le baron de Mondésir & ses aïeux

1939 Fric-Frac
Marcel

1939 Berlingot and Company
François Arnaud

1939 The Five Cents of Lavarede
Armand Lavarède

1939 Raphaël le tatoué
Modeste Manosque, alias Raphaël

1938 Ernest the Rebel
Ernest Pic

1938 Tricoche et Cacolet
Tricoche

1938 Barnabé
Barnabé

1938 Heartbeat
Irénée Fabre, 'le Schpountz'

1938 Hercule
Hercule Maffre

1937 Harvest
Urbain Gedemus

1937 Les rois du sport
Fernand

1937 Christine
Fabien Coutissol

1937 Ignace
Le soldat Ignace Boitaclou

1937 Les dégourdis de la 11ème
L'ordonnance Patard

1937 Francis the First
Honorin

1937 Josette
Albert Durandal aka Albertal

1936 Un de la légion
Fernand Espitalion

1936 Les gaîtés de la finance
Marivol Lambinet

1935 Jim la houlette
Moluchet

1935 Ferdinand le noceur
Ferdinand Piat

1934 Le chéri de sa concierge
Eugene Crochard

1934 Le cavalier Lafleur
Fernand Lafleur

1934 L'hôtel du libre échange
Boulot

1934 Skylark
Méchelet

1934 Les bleus de la marine
Lafraise

1934 Angele
Saturnin

1934 Le train de huit heures quarante-sept
Croquebol

1934 Une nuit de folies
Fernand

1934 La garnison amoureuse
Frédéric, un cavalier

1934 The Bread Peddler
Billenbuis

1933 Ça colle

1933 Le gros lot

1933 Lidoire (Short)
Lidoire

1933 Le coq du régiment
Médard

1933 Love and Cool Water
Eloi

1933 The Orderly
Étienne

1933 Le jugement de minuit
Sam Hackitt

1932 Comme une carpe (Short)
Chatelard - le mari volage

1932 L'Ordonnance malgré lui
Alfred Leveneux

1932 La claque (Short)
Jules

1932 La terreur de la pampa (Short)
Billy Forster

1932 Maruche (Short)
Maruche

1932 Par habitude (Short)
Valentin Bourgeasse

1932 Quand tu nous tiens, amour (Short)

1932 Un beau jour de noces
Gustave Dupied

1932 Une brune piquante (Short)

1932 Un homme sans nom
Julot

1932 Fun in the Barracks
Vanderague

1932 Pas de femmes
Casimir

1932 Vive la classe
Moussin

1932 Bric à Brac et compagnie
Fernand

1932 He
Isidore

1932 Lilac
Le garçon d'honneur

1932 Sailor's Song

1931 Attaque nocturne (Short)
Le commissaire

1931 J'ai quelque chose à vous dire (Short)
L'amant

1931 Pas un mot à ma femme (Short)
Jules

1931 The Darling of Paris
Ficelle

1931 La fine combine (Short)
Joseph

1931 Baby's Laxative
Truchet

1931 Black and White
Le groom vierge

1931 La meilleure bobonne (Short)
Lucien Pivoine

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Producer (7 credits)

1971 Le Chat (producer - uncredited)

1970 Horse (producer - uncredited)

1970 Happy He Who Like Ulysses (producer - uncredited)

1968 Pasha (producer - uncredited)

1968 The Man in the Buick (producer - uncredited)

1966 Father's Trip (producer - uncredited)

1964 That Tender Age (producer - uncredited)

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Director (3 credits)

1951 Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité

1943 Adrien

1942 Simplet

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Soundtrack (55 credits)

2010 L'Occupation sans relâche - Les artistes pendant la guerre (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Barnabé", "J'Aime toutes les Femmes", "Elle a tout ça")

2007 Les grands du rire (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode dated 1 December 2007 (2007) ... (performer: "Félicie aussi")

2002 Monsieur Batignole (performer: "Elle a tout ça")

1976 Singing During the Occupation (Documentary) (performer: "Elle a tout ça", "On m'Appelle Simplet")

1973 La Une est à vous (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode #1.16 (1973) ... (performer: "Félicie aussi")

1963 My Wife's Husband (performer: "La Caissière du Grand Café")

1962 Le bon numéro (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode dated 14 March 1962 (1962) ... (performer: "Ah ! Le Tango Corse")

1956 Honoré de Marseille (performer: "Quel Plaisir ! Quel Travail !", "Tout ça c'est Marseille", "Oh ! Honoré")

1954 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (performer: "Ali Baba")

1953 Carnaval (performer: "Les Cornes, les Cornes")

1951 Adhémar ou le jouet de la fatalité (performer: "Le Rire est un Instant Divin")

1951 The Sleepwalker (performer: "Aux Îles Marquises")

1950 La nuit des étoiles (Short) (performer: "C'est un Dur")

1949 The Heroic Mr. Boniface (performer: "Extraordinaire", "Ah ! Dites-moi", "Je Voudrais Embrasser tes Yeux")

1948 Si ça peut vous faire plaisir (performer: "Si ça Peut vous Faire Plaisir")

1948 Emile the African (performer: "Emile ! Qu'est-ce que tu fais ?", "Dans la Brousse")

1947 Attente (Short) (performer: "Attente")

1947 Elle a de la barbe (Short) (performer: "Elle a de la Barbe")

1947 Irma la voyante (Short) (performer: "Irma la Voyante")

1947 La Caissière du Grand Café (Short) (performer: "La Caissière du Grand Café")

1946 Comédiens ambulants (Documentary short) (performer: "Barnabé", "Félicie aussi")

1946 Coeur de coq (performer: "J'ai mon Coeur qui Fait Tic-Tac", "O mio Amore", "Je suis Irrésistible", "Cocococotte")

1946 L'aventure de Cabassou (performer: "Mon Coeur Saigne pour toi")

1946 Hoboes in Paradise (performer: "Saint Antoine et Saint Nicolas")

1943 Adrien (performer: "Adrien", "Voulez-vous m'Aimer ? Prenez-moi !")

1943 Love Around the Clock (performer: "Oui mais quand on n'a pas l'Sou", "Dans la Poche")

1943 Ne le criez pas sur les toits (performer: "Si j'Étais Papillon !")

1943 Une vie de chien (performer: "Y a le Petit Cochon", "Mon Coeur sur votre Paillasson")

1942 Simplet (performer: "On m'Appelle Simplet", "Chanson du Suicide", "Moi je Danse le Swing sur un Air de Polka")

1941 Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (performer: "Ell' Bayait aux Corneilles")

1941 Le club des soupirants (performer: "J'Aime toutes les Femmes", "Je Connais des Baisers", "C'est pour vous que je Chante")

1940 Monsieur Hector (performer: "Hector", "You-Houh !", "Moi, je Mâche du Chewing-Gum")

1940 The Mondesir Heir (performer: "J'suis Discret")

1939 Berlingot and Company (performer: "Pourquoi donc que tu me Vexes, Victor ?", "T'Aimer une Demi-Journée", "La Chanson du Forçat")

1939 The Five Cents of Lavarede (performer: "Je suis une Petite Nature", "C'est comme ça à Calcutta")

1939 Raphaël le tatoué (performer: "Un Dur, un Vrai, un Tatoué")

1938 Ernest the Rebel (performer: "Ma Créole", "Ernestito")

1938 Tricoche et Cacolet (performer: "Si je Jouais du Trombone", "Nous Sommes des Fins Limiers", "Bonjour, Bonjour, Monsieur l'Amour", "Les Policiers")

1938 Barnabé (performer: "Un Baiser Mademoiselle Rose", "Barnabé", "Ne me dis plus tu...")

1938 Heartbeat (performer: "L'Amour Incompris")

1937 Les rois du sport (performer: "La Java des Jeunes de Marseille")

1937 Ignace (performer: "Ignace", "Redis-le me", "Quelle Famille !", "La Java des p'tits Galons", "Lequel des Deux", "Pour Être Ordonnance")

1937 Les dégourdis de la 11ème (performer: "Les Dégourdis", "C'est toujours comme ça")

1937 Josette (performer: "C'est la Fête à Tante Aurore", "Célestine", "Ton Amour me Fait Peur", "Aimer c'est toute la Vie" - uncredited)

1935 Ferdinand le noceur (performer: "Quand on est obligeant", "Faut tout prendre du bon côté")

1934 Les bleus de la marine (performer: "C'est dans la Mama", "Dans la Flotte" - uncredited)

1934 Une nuit de folies (performer: "Un Verre de Fine", "Les Cavaliers")

1933 Le coq du régiment (performer: "Le Coq du Régiment", "Agathe", "Quand on est de Corvée")

1933 Love and Cool Water (performer: "Quand il y a d'l'Amour")

1932 L'Ordonnance malgré lui (performer: "Pourquoi pas !!!")

1932 La terreur de la pampa (Short) (performer: "C'est au Rythme d'un Tango")

1932 Par habitude (Short) (performer: "Ah ! Eh, dis donc")

1932 Quand tu nous tiens, amour (Short) (performer: "Oh ! Jules")

1932 Fun in the Barracks (performer: "Cunégonde" - uncredited)

1932 He (performer: "Je te Veux", "L'Amour est un Mystère")

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2022 Trenches (Short) (very special thanks)

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Self (38 credits)

1970 De Soleil et d'Azur (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Episode dated 15 October 1970 (1970) ... Self

- Episode dated 22 January 1970 (1970) ... Self

1970 Neues aus der Welt des Films (TV Series)
Self - Interview on Set

- Drehbericht vom 6. Don Camillo und Peppone Film (1970) ... Self - Interview on Set

1970 Gala de l'union (TV Series)
Self

- 37ème gala de l'union des artistes (1970) ... Self

1969-1970 Au cinéma ce soir (TV Series)
Self

- Regain (1970) ... Self

- Le Schpountz (1969) ... Self

1968 Le palmarès des chansons (TV Series)
Self - Main guest

- Episode dated 14 March 1968 (1968) ... Self - Main guest

1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 22 January 1968 (1968) ... Self

1967 Tel est Franck (TV Movie)
Self

1967 Discorama (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 30 December 1967 (1967) ... Self

1967 Gala de l'Unicef (TV Series)
Self

- Gala de l'Unicef 1967 (1967) ... Self

1967 Fernandel (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1967 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Self

- Elia Kazan, Jim Backus, Betty Walker, Fernandel (1967) ... Self

1966 Une emission de Irène Hilda (TV Special)
Self - Musician

1965 Cinéma (TV Series documentary)
Self - interviewee

1965/I Gala 65 (TV Special)
Komiek

1957-1963 Cinépanorama (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Episode dated 16 February 1963 (1963) ... Self

- Episode dated 2 December 1961 (1961) ... Self

- Episode dated 29 November 1958 (1958) ... Self

- Episode dated 16 January 1958 (1958) ... Self

- Episode dated 25 April 1957 (1957) ... Self

1962 Toute la chanson (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 9 April 1962 (1962) ... Self

1962 Le bon numéro (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 14 March 1962 (1962) ... Self

1961 Les échos du cinéma (TV Series short)
Self

- Episode #1.17 (1961) ... Self

- Episode #1.19 (1961) ... Self

1961 Au-delà de l'écran (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 19 February 1961 (1961) ... Self

1960 Estoril y sus fiestas (Documentary short)
Self

1959 Sources de la ville (Documentary short)
Self - in the prolog

1959 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
Self

- Eydie Gorme, Fernandel, Julius La Rosa, E. Y. Harburg (1959) ... Self

1959 Saturday Spectacular (TV Series)
Self

- The Dolores Gray Show (1959) ... Self

1956-1958 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series)
Self

- Joan Crawford, Fernandel, Robert Strauss (1958) ... Self

- Fernandel, Diana Dors (1956) ... Self

1956-1958 Trente-Six Chandelles (TV Series)
Self

- Les grandes familles de Trente-Six chandelles: Les représentants de commerce (1958) ... Self

- La nuit de l'aviation (1957) ... Self

- Mardi Gras (1956) ... Self

1957 Hohe Kunst der Heiterkeit - Berühmte Komiker und ihr Erfolgsrezept (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series)
Self / Don Quixote

- Around the World in 90 Minutes (1957) ... Self / Don Quixote

1956 Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.5 (1956) ... Self

1956 The Dinah Shore Show (TV Series)
Self

- Guest Host Bob Hope: Guest Stars Fernandel, Diana Dors, Yana, The Ted Heath Orchestra, Nanci Crompton (1956) ... Self

1955 La joie de vivre (TV Series)
Self

- André Roussin et Maurice Lehmann (1955) ... Self (voice)

1950 La nuit des étoiles (Short)
Self

1947 Attente (Short)
Self

1947 Elle a de la barbe (Short)
Self

1947 Escale au soleil (Documentary short)
Le guide

1947 Fernandel (Short)
Self

1947 Irma la voyante (Short)
Self

1947 La Caissière du Grand Café (Short)
Self

1946 Comédiens ambulants (Documentary short)
Self - Singer

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Archive footage (37 credits)

2021 Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2020-2021 Rembob'Ina (TV Series documentary)
Self

- François Chalais (2021) ... Self

- Le gala de l'union (2020)

2020 ORTF, ils ont inventé la télévision (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- La télé du général (2020) ... Self

2020 The Truth About La Dolce Vita (Documentary)
Don Camillo (uncredited)

2020 Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (Documentary)

2019 Drôle de guerre (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2019 Les trésors de Marcel Pagnol (TV Movie documentary)
Self / Saturnin / Urbain Gedemus / ...

2019 Mit dem Zug durch... (TV Series documentary)
Self

- entlang der Côte Bleue (2019) ... Self

2019 Histoire Brève (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- Le Liban, un pays arabe francophone? (2019) ... Self

2019 André Téchiné, cinéaste insoumis (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2017 La Continental: Le mystère Greven (TV Movie documentary)
Simplet

2017 Sold Out! Cinema Under Occupation (Documentary)

2016 Duels (TV Series documentary)
Self - Comédien

- Paris - Province, une rivalité capitale (2016) ... Self - Comédien

2013 Chansons de la Belle Époque (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2013 Cocteau Marais - Un couple mythique (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2011 An Intimate History (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2010 L'Occupation sans relâche - Les artistes pendant la guerre (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2010 Il était une fois... (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- Le petit monde de Don Camillo (2010) ... Self

2009 Apocalypse: The Second World War (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- L'agression (2009) ... Self

2009 History (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Die großen Komiker (2009) ... Self

2006-2007 Les grands du rire (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 1 December 2007 (2007) ... Self

- Episode dated 16 December 2006 (2006) ... Self

- Episode dated 21 October 2006 (2006) ... Self

2006 C'est bon pour le moral (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 19 August 2006 (2006) ... Self

2004 Legends of World Cinema (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Fernandel ... Self

2004 Le cinéma de Jean Giono (Video documentary)
Self

2004 À la recherche de la folle perdue (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2003 Louis de Funès ou Le pouvoir de faire rire (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2003 Sendung ohne Namen (TV Series)
Don Camillo

- Lügen (2003) ... Don Camillo

1995 L'Oeil du cyclone (TV Series documentary short)
Marcel

- Langage sonore (1995) ... Marcel

1994 Heinz Rühmann: Kleiner Mann ganz groß (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)

1991 Sacrée soirée (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 27 February 1991 (1991) ... Self

1986 Champs-Elysées (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 28 June 1986 (1986) ... Self

1977 Ciné Follies (Documentary)

1976 Singing During the Occupation (Documentary)
Self

1975 Ring Parade (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 16 November 1975 (1975) ... Self

1973 La Une est à vous (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.16 (1973) ... Self

1973 À la recherche de Fernandel (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1971 Hommage à Fernandel (TV Movie documentary)
Self

Personal Details

Publicity Listings:

Official Sites:

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Height:

5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Spouse:

Henriette Manse (his death) (3 children)

Children:

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Relatives:

Vincent Fernandel (grandchild) | See more »

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Fernandel was mentioned in the Camus novel "The Stranger" as the director of a movie the main character had gone to see after his mother's death. When this later came up in his trial, the courtroom was aghast that he'd gone to see such a film under those circumstances. See more »

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