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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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the headstrong village baker, Fernandel is volubly insistent that his son would never do such a thing, refuses to recognize the infant as a descendant.

From Time Magazine Archive

John Barrymore once did the leading role in a Hollywood version, and Fernandel has done it in French.

From Time Magazine Archive

The craggy old marquis, looking not unlike a pork-fed Fernandel, towers against a symbolic sunset sky, his fist clenched beside the busts of his dead friends Franklin and Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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