Fernand Ledoux

Fernand Ledoux
Born	Jacques Joseph Félix Fernand Ledoux January 24, 1897 Tirlemont, France
Died	September 21, 1994 (aged 97) Villerville, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1918-1982

Fernand Ledoux (born Jacques Joseph Félix Fernand Ledoux, 24 January 1897, Tirlemont – 21 September 1994, Villerville) was a French film and theatre actor of Belgian origin. He studied with Raphaël Duflos at the CNSAD, and began his career with small roles at the Comédie-Française. He appeared in close to eighty films, with his best remembered role being the stationmaster Roubaud in Jean Renoir's La Bête humaine (1938), but he remained primarily a theatrical actor for the duration of his career.

Ledoux was married to Fernande Thabuy, with whom he had four children; he was an amateur painter, and lived for many years at Pennedepie in Normandy. Later he moved to Villerville, where he died and where he is buried.

Selected filmography

• La Bête Humaine (1938)
• Le Lit à colonnes (1942)
• Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
• It Happened at the Inn (1943)
• Girl with Grey Eyes (1945)
• The Sea Rose (1946)
• Wolves Hunt at Night (1952)
• La Bergère et le ramoneur (1952)
• Act of Love (1953)
• Papa, maman, la bonne et moi (1954)
• Papa, maman, ma femme et moi (1955)
• La Loi des rues (1956)
• He Who Must Die (1957)
• Les Misérables (1958)
• The Truth (1960)
• The Big Gamble (1961)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
• The Trial (1962)
• Le Glaive et la Balance (1963)
• Up from the Beach (1965)
• La Communale (1965)
• Sous le signe du taureau (1968)
• Peau d'Âne (1970)
• Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)
• Bel Ordure (1973)
• Les Granges brûlées (1973)
• Les Chinois à Paris (1974)
• Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977)
• À chacun son enfer (1977)
• Mille milliards de dollars (1982)
• Les Misérables (1982)

References

• Fernand Ledoux at the Internet Movie Database