Fernand Gravey (25 December 1905 in Ixelles (Belgium) – 2 November 1970 in Paris, France), also known as Fernand Gravet in the United States, was the son of actors Georges Mertens and Fernande Depernay, who appeared in silent films produced by pioneer Belge Cinéma Film (a subsidiary of Pathé).Gravey started performing at age five under his fathers direction.Before World War I, he received an education in Britain and could speak both French and English fluently, something which became useful in his movie roles. During the war, Gravey served in the British Merchant Marine Corp.In 1936, he married the French actress Jane Renouardt, who was 15 years his senior. They remained together until his death on 2 November 1970 of a heart-attack. Jane died on 3 February 1972. They had no children.Gravey performed in four films in 1913 and 1914 (as Fernand Mertens), but his first film of importance was LAmour Chante, released in 1930. In 1933, he made Bitter Sweet, his first English language movie, which became more famous in its 1940 incarnation with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.In 1937, after several more French and British movies, Gravey went to Hollywood, where the spelling of his last name was altered to Gravet, and he became the focus of a rather extensive Hollywood publicity campaign (instructing moviegoers to pronounce his name properly Rhymes with Gravy). Unfortunately for Gravey, he was offered only standard parts, the type of Gallic-lover roles that Louis Jourdan played in the 1950s and 1960s.The first two films he made in Hollywood were for Warner Brothers The King and the Chorus Girl (1937), with Joan Blondell and Jane Wyman, and Fools for Scandal (1938), with Carole Lombard and Ralph Bellamy. Gravey then signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was cast as Johann Strauss in the expensive biopic The Great Waltz, with Luise Rainer and Miliza Korjus.MGM next planned to star Gravey in a film version of Rafael Sabatinis adventure novel Scaramouche, but instead he returned to France just before the Nazi occupation began. Although he had agreed to appear in German-approved French films, Gravey was an underminer of the invaders as a member of the French Secret Army and the Foreign Legion.At the end of the war, Gravey was considered a war hero, and continued to be featured in French productions such as La Ronde (with Danielle Darrieux), and Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954). Among his last English language performances were How to Steal a Million (1966), Guns for San Sebastian (1968) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), in which he played the police inspector.Source Article Fernand Gravey from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmy nedostupný z Fernand Gravey

The Queen's Affair

Carl

Film 1934

Gunman in the Streets

Commissioner Dufresne

Film 1950

The Last Turning

Frank

Film 1939

Toto in Paris

Il dottor Duclos

Film 1958

Du Guesclin

Bertrand du Guesclin

Film 1949

Four Flights to Love

Pierre Leblan

Film 1939

Fanfare of Love

Jean Rameau / Jeanette, piano des " Tulipes Hollandaises "

Film 1935

Captain Fracasse

Baron de Cigognac

Film 1943

Fantastic Night

Denis

Film 1942

La Ronde

Charles Breitkopf, son mari

Film 1950

You Will Be a Duchess

Marquis André de la Cour

Film 1932

A Star Vanishes

Self

Film 1932

Passionately

Robert Perceval

Film 1932

Early to Bed

Carl

Film 1933

The Improvised Son

Fernand Brassart

Film 1932

Let's Get Married

Francis Latour

Film 1931

The Premature Father

Édouard Puma & Fred

Film 1933

Touche-à-tout

Georges Martin aka 'Touche-à-Tout'

Film 1935

Symphonie D'Amour

Charles Panard

Film 1936

Threesome Romance

Charles

Film 1942

La Rabouilleuse

Colonel Philippe Brideau

Film 1944

Once Is Enough

Jacques Reval

Film 1946

Captain Blomet

Blomet

Film 1947

Le Traqué

Commissioner Dufresne

Film 1950

The Happiest of Men

Armand Dupuis-Martin

Film 1952

The Woman from Beirut

Dr. Castello

Film 1965

Mitsou

Pierre Duroy-Lelong

Film 1956

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Police sergeant

Film 1969

The King and the Chorus Girl

Alfred Bruger VII

Film 1937

Slightly Ahead

Olivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc

Film 1956

Fools for Scandal

Rene

Film 1938

My Wife Is Formidable

Raymond Corbier, sculpteur et mari de Sylvia

Film 1951

Bitter Sweet

Carl Linden

Film 1933

Foolish Husbands

Gérard Barbier

Film 1941

Monsieur Beulemeester, Civic Guard

Le petit Paul

Film 1913

Hardboiled Egg Time

Raoul Grandvivier

Film 1958

Loyalty

Jonge Jefke / Young Jefke

Film 1914

La Garçonne

Georges Sauvage

Film 1957

Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis

Fernand Mertens

Film 1913

Domino

Domino

Film 1943

School for Coquettes

Stanislas de La Ferronière

Film 1958

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Molière

Film 1954

Promise at Dawn

Jean-Michel Serusier

Film 1970

Mister Flow

Antonin Rose

Film 1936

The Crumblers Are Doing Well

François Legrand

Film 1961

The Age of Indiscretion

Padre di Andrea, presidente del tribunale

Film 1953

Varieté

Pierre

Film 1935

Ladies Hairdresser

Mario

Film 1932

Breakdowns of 1938

Rene (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film 1938

Monsieur Sans-Gêne

Fernand Martin

Film 1935

Si j'étais le patron

Henri Janvier

Film 1934

Hollywood Goes to Town

Self

Film 1938

Seven Men, One Woman

Viscount Brémontier

Film 1936

Paméla

Paul Barras

Film 1945

The Lie of Nina Petrovna

Lieutenant Franz Korff

Film 1937

Antonia

Captain Douglas Parker

Film 1935

Court Waltzes

Franz

Film 1933

C'était un musicien

Jean

Film 1934

Love Songs

Armand Petitjean

Film 1930

My Husband Is Marvelous

Claude Chatel

Film 1953

Thirteen at the Table

Antoine Villardier

Film 1955

Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme

André Ternay

Film 1950

Un homme en habit

André de Lussanges

Film 1931

televizní seriál nedostupný z Fernand Gravey

Harry's Girls

Andre Giraud

Tv 1963

The House in the Woods

Les marquis

Tv 1971

Discorama

Self

Tv 1959

Cinépanorama

Self

Tv 1956