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Nino Ferrer

Nino Ferrer

Actor · Born 1934-08-15 · Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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Biography

Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari (15 August 1934 – 13 August 1998), known as Nino Ferrer, was an Italian-born French singer-songwriter and author. Nino Ferrer was born on 15 August 1934 in Genoa, Italy, but lived the first years of his life in New Caledonia (an overseas territory of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean), where his father, an engineer, was working. Jesuit religious schooling, first in Genoa and later in Saint-Jean de Passy, Paris, left him with a lifelong aversion to the Church. From 1947, the young Nino studied ethnology and archaeology in the Sorbonne university in Paris, also pursuing his interests in music and painting. After completing his studies, Ferrer started traveling the world, working on a freighter ship. When he returned to France he immersed himself in music. A passion for jazz and the blues led him to worship the music of James Brown, Otis Redding and Ray Charles. He started to play the double bass in Bill Coleman's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. He appeared on a recording for the first time in 1959, playing bass on two 45 singles by the Dixie Cats. The suggestion to take up solo singing came from the rhythm 'n' blues singer Nancy Holloway, whom he …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Litan (1982) — Le docteur Steve Julien
  2. The Society of the Spectacle (1974) — Self (archive footage)
  3. Let the Shooters Shoot (1964) — Andersen
  4. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
  5. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
  6. Sheila, toutes ces vies-là (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  7. Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  8. 30 millions d'amis (1976) — Self
  9. Delphine (1969) — Luc, un amant de Delphine
  10. Dim Dam Dom (1965) — Self
  11. Numéro un (1975) — Self
  12. Midi Première (1975) — Self
  13. A Savage Summer (1970) — Serge
  14. L'homme qui venait du Cher (1969) — Le colporteur
  15. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
  16. Samedi soir (1971) — Self
  17. Discorama (1959) — Self
  18. Midi trente (1972) — Self
  19. Nino Ferrer - Anthologie - Son dernier concert. (1996) — Self
  20. Sounds Like Nino Ferrer (2004) — Self (archive footage)
  21. La Desabusion (1996) — Self
  22. La Peinture (1987) — Self
  23. The Making of Litan (1982) — Himself
  24. Europarty (1967) — Self
  25. Système 2 (1975) — Self
  26. Night-Club (1968) — Self
  27. Io, Agata e tu (1970) — Self - Host

Directed

  1. La Peinture (1987) — Director