biography
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Fernandel
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stage name of Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin
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pronunciation:
[fernãdel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–71)
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| biography:
| Film comedian, born in Marseille, S France. He worked in a bank and soap factory before his debut on the stage in 1922, and from 1930 appeared in over a hundred films, interrupted only temporarily by military service and Nazi occupation. He established himself internationally with his moving portrayal of the naive country priest of The Little World of Don Camillo (1953), and with his versatile handling of six separate roles in The Sheep has Five Legs (1953), which gave full rein to his extraordinary facial mobility. |
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