Fernand Gravey actor
- All known tv series 4
- Total known movies 69
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.
Carl
Movie 1934
Commissioner Dufresne
Movie 1950
Frank
Movie 1939
Il dottor Duclos
Movie 1958
Bertrand du Guesclin
Movie 1949
Pierre Leblan
Movie 1939
Jean Rameau / Jeanette, piano des " Tulipes Hollandaises "
Movie 1935
Baron de Cigognac
Movie 1943
Denis
Movie 1942
Charles Breitkopf, son mari
Movie 1950
Marquis André de la Cour
Movie 1932
Self
Movie 1932
Robert Perceval
Movie 1932
Carl
Movie 1933
Fernand Brassart
Movie 1932
Francis Latour
Movie 1931
Édouard Puma & Fred
Movie 1933
Georges Martin aka 'Touche-à-Tout'
Movie 1935
Charles Panard
Movie 1936
Charles
Movie 1942
Colonel Philippe Brideau
Movie 1944
Jacques Reval
Movie 1946
Blomet
Movie 1947
Commissioner Dufresne
Movie 1950
Armand Dupuis-Martin
Movie 1952
Dr. Castello
Movie 1965
Pierre Duroy-Lelong
Movie 1956
Police sergeant
Movie 1969
Alfred Bruger VII
Movie 1937
Olivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc
Movie 1956
Rene
Movie 1938
Raymond Corbier, sculpteur et mari de Sylvia
Movie 1951
Carl Linden
Movie 1933
Gérard Barbier
Movie 1941
Le petit Paul
Movie 1913
Raoul Grandvivier
Movie 1958
Jonge Jefke / Young Jefke
Movie 1914
Georges Sauvage
Movie 1957
Fernand Mertens
Movie 1913
Domino
Movie 1943
Stanislas de La Ferronière
Movie 1958
Molière
Movie 1954
Jean-Michel Serusier
Movie 1970
Antonin Rose
Movie 1936
François Legrand
Movie 1961
Padre di Andrea, presidente del tribunale
Movie 1953
Pierre
Movie 1935
Mario
Movie 1932
Rene (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Fernand Martin
Movie 1935
Henri Janvier
Movie 1934
Self
Movie 1938
Viscount Brémontier
Movie 1936
Paul Barras
Movie 1945
Lieutenant Franz Korff
Movie 1937
Captain Douglas Parker
Movie 1935
Franz
Movie 1933
Jean
Movie 1934
Armand Petitjean
Movie 1930
Claude Chatel
Movie 1953
Antoine Villardier
Movie 1955
André Ternay
Movie 1950
André de Lussanges
Movie 1931
Andre Giraud
Tv 1963
Les marquis
Tv 1971
Self
Tv 1959
Self
Tv 1956
