生于巴黎，1960年2月21日卒于同地。曾长期担任让·雷诺阿的助手。第二次世界大战期间曾被德军俘虏。代表作是Golden Helmet《金盔》(1952)。其作品特点是能准确描绘法国的社会风情，反映法国各阶层的人物的生活与性格，如《红手古比》(1943)中的农民、《花边》（1945）中的时装店店员、...
The apocryphal biography of Fernand Contandin tells the invention of his artistic name Fernandel by his sister-in-law ("Voici le Fernand d'elles"). At the beginning of the thirties he became a typical actor of the comedy genre: popular, common, likable and with a concealed grain of drama. Marc Allégret was the director of his first successful film La meilleure bobonne (1930). He tried to work as director twice during World War II but did not succeed in that.
