Fernandel

/ fɛrnɑ̃dɛl /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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He's like a subtler Fernandel, Walter Matthau but less misanthropic, Jack Lemmon without the self-pitying tetchiness.

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Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences.

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Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama.

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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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