
Born: 1903-05-08
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, widely recognized as Fernandel, was a celebrated French actor and singer born on May 8, 1903, in Marseille, France. He was the son of Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, who hailed from Perosa Argentina, a town in the Occitan region of Turin. Fernandel became a ...