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Fernand Graavey


1905 - 1970

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The actor Fernand Graavey had already his first film appearances as a child in the silent movies "Un épisode de Waterloo" (13) and "La fille de Delft" (14).

His real film career startet with the rise of the talkies in the 30's. He soon took part in French as well as in English and American productions - for his international movies he called himself Fernand Gravet.

To his well-known movies of the 30's belong "Chérie" (30), "Le fils improvisé" (32), "Bitter Sweet" (33), "Nuit de mai" (34), "Fanfare d'amour" (35), "Le grand refrain" (36), "The King and the Chorus Girl" (37), "Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna" (37), "The Great Waltz" (38) and "Le dernier tournant" (39).

During and after the war he continued his career successfully and he impersonated numerous roles in popular movies like "Romance à trois" (42), "Le capitaine Fracasse" (43), "Le traqué" (50), "La ronde" (50), "Si Versailles m'était conté" (54), "Mitsou" (56), "La garçonne" (57), "Les petits matins" (62), "How to Steal a Million" (66), "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (69) and "Promise at Dawn" (70).
 

Other movies with Fernand Graavey: 
Saïda a enlevé Manneken-Pis (13) Monsieur Beulemeester, garde civique (13) L'amour chante (30) Our Blushing Brides (30) Un homme en habit (31) Marions-nous (31) Passionnément (32) Tu seras Duchesse (32) Coiffeur pour dames (32) A moi le jour, a toi la nuit (32) Le père prématuré (33) La guerres des valses (33) C'était un musicien (33) Early to Bed (33) Si j'étais le patron (34) Antonia, romance hongroise (34) The Queen's Affair (34) Touche à tout (35) Monsieur Sans-Gêne (35) Variétés (35) Sept hommes, une femme (36) Mister Flow (36) Fools for Scandal (38) Paradis perdu (40) Histoire de rire (41) La loi du 21 juin 1907 (42) La nuit fantastique (42) Domino (43) La rabouilleuse (44) Paméla (45) Il suffit d'une fois (46) Capitaine Blomet (47) Du Guesclin (49) Gunman in the Streets (50) Mademoiselle Josette ma femme (51) Ma femme est formidable (51) Le plus heureux des hommes (52) Mon mariest merveilleux (53) L'eté dell'amore (53) Courte tête (56) Treize à table (56) Toto a Parigi (58) Le temps des oeufs durs (58) L'école des cocottes (58) Les croulants se portent bien (61) Serie "Harry's Girls: His Highness" (63) La dama de Beirut (65) Princesse Czardas (68) La bataille de San Sebastian (68) Les caprices de Marie (70) L'explosion (70) Serie "La maison des bois" (70)

Writer:
Le plus heureux des hommes (52)


 
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