Sid Ali Fernandel (real name Chabane Haouat), born in March 1923, in Zoudj Ayoun, in the Casbah of Algiers, is an Algerian actor and comedian. Born into a modest family, this student of Rachid Ksentini was a close friend of Mustapha Skandrani and Blaoui El-Houari. Funny, comical and generous, Sid Ali Fernandel began his adventure in the fourth art in the forties, in the wake of the great master o... show more