Fernand Ledoux

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)
• 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)