Biography
Fernand Ledoux (born Jacques Joseph Félix Fernand Ledoux, 24 January 1897, Tirlemont – 21 September 1993, 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....
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Complete Filmography

Les Misérables
1982
as Mr. Gillenormand, uncle of Marius Pontmercy
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
as Mr. Guérande
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determ...

To Each His Hell
1977
as Le père
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."

Alice or the Last Escapade
1977
as Doctor / Old man at banquet
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice i...

Le père Amable
1975
as Father Amable Houlbrecque
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Ama...

Chinese In Paris
1974
as Frugebelle, l'académicien collabo
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, w...

The Burned Barns
1973
as Dean of Judges
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
1973
as Sauveur Chouras
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods...

Donkey Skin
1970
as The Red King
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

Under the Sign of the Bull
1969
as Le juge
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathe...
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969
as Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.

Le Père de Mademoiselle
1966
as M. Marinier, conseiller à la cour

Le Père de Mademoiselle
1966
Stage Director

Public School
1965
as L'inspecteur
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon t...

The Sword and the Balance
1963
as Prosecutor
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pas...

Freud: The Secret Passion
1962
as Dr. Charcot
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of...
Les Célibataires
1962
as Elie de Coëtquidan

The Longest Day
1962
as Louis
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...

The Trial
1962
as Chief Clerk of the Law Court
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

The Big Gamble
1961
as Customs Official
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation i...

The Truth
1960
as Le médecin légiste
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the...

Recourse in Grace
1960
as The priest
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his...

I Spit on Your Grave
1959
as Horace Chandley
Joe Grant, a light-skinned African American, heads to a small Southern town to investigate the lynching death of his brother. He draws the attention o...

Christine
1958
as Mr Weiring, Christin's father
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Ba...

Les Misérables
1958
as Monsignor Bienvenu Myriel
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Les Violents
1958
as Pierre Tiercelin
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his...

He Who Must Die
1957
as Pope Grigoris
Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that...

Bold Adventure
1956
as Claes, sower
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, D...

Law of the Streets
1956
as Father Blain
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere frie...

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1955
as Fernand Langlois, le père, professeur
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to ...

Les Hommes en blanc
1955
as Dr. Delpuech
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to acce...

Fortune carrée
1955
as Le Cadi
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his form...

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
1954
as Fernand Langlois, father, professor

Act of Love
1953
as Fernand Lacaud
An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
1953
Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an unexpected encounter, he'd probably have gone on for...

The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
1953
as King (voice)
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator

Wolves Hunt at Night
1952
as Thomas Mollert
A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.

Monsignor
1949
as Piétrefond
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descend...

Strange Tales
1949
as Montrésor
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in...

The Barton Mystery
1949
as Beverley
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.

White Paws
1949
as Jock Le Guen
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.

L'Ombre
1948
as Firmin Blache
Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him.

Eternal Conflict
1948
as Professeur Janvier
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new ...

Danger of Death
1947
as Pharmacist Adrien Loiseau
Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and...

The Sea Rose
1946
as Romain Jardehu
Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect t...

Devil's Daughter
1946
as The doctor
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this...

The Bellman
1945
as Fabret, his friend
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to b...

Girl with Grey Eyes
1945
as Doctor Renard
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonese...

La Grande Marnière
1945
as Carvajan
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and P...
Behold Beatrice
1944
as Doctor Mauléon
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her marria...

The London Man
1943
as Maloin
Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smugg...

It Happened at the Inn
1943
as Goupi-Mains rouges
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.

Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
1943
as Auguste
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic react...

The Heart of a Nation
1943
as Mayor
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussia...

The Devil's Envoys
1942
as Baron Hugues, Anne's father
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

The Four-Poster Bed
1942
as Porey-Cave
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is ...

Stormy Waters
1941
as Le Bosco
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.

Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941
as The Mayor
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Fathe...

Premier bal
1941
as Michel Noblet
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.

Her First Affair
1941
as Nicolas
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the or...

Volpone
1941
as Corvino
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to cu...

Métropolitain
1939
as (uncredited)
A woman managed to leave the man she hated and finds its difficult to live without him.

La Bête Humaine
1938
as Roubaud
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Sé...

S.O.S. Mediterranean
1938
as Martin
The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, Germ...

Youth in Revolt
1938
as The doctor
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were...

Le Vagabond bien-aimé
1936
as Major Walters
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. ...
Taras Bulba
1936
as Tovkatch
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.

Mayerling
1936
as Philippe de Cobourg
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stif...

Folies Bergère
1935
as François
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

Le train de 8 H 47
1934
as Flick
In 1885, La Guillaumette and Croquebol are two cavalrymen who are constantly victimised by their superior, adjutant Flick. One day, the two men are gi...
Villa Destin
1921