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

From Time Magazine Archive

A crowd of 200,000 turned out happily on the Place de la Concorde to dance in the street, watch fireworks, and cheer Fernandel, Juliette Greco, the cancan line of the Moulin Rouge.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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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