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Fernandel

British  
/ fɛrnɑ̃dɛl /

noun

  1. real name Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin . 1903–71, French comic film actor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This wild oat is somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa.

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In fact, the only funny things in the picture seem to happen when Hope has the help of his side man, France's Fernandel.

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French-made Sheep should at last give many U.S. moviegoers their long-overdue chance to meet Fernandel, and give him the American audience he deserves.

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Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences.

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She laughed again and told me there was a Fernandel movie she’d like to see.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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