Henri Vidal
Henri Vidal
Biography
Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor. Henri Lucien Raymond Vidal was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Édith Piaf, and made his film debut alongside her in the movie Montmartre-sur-Seine in 1941. Vidal went on to appear in more than 30 films between 1941 and 1959. In addition to his wife, Michèle Morgan, he played opposite some of the biggest leading ladies in French films of the 1950s: Françoise Arnoul, Brigitte Bardot, Dany Carrel, Mylène Demongeot, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, and Marina Vlady. In May 1943 he married the actress Michèle Cordoba, and they divorced in July 1946. In 1950 he married French actress Michèle Morgan, whom he met while filming Alessandro Blasetti's 1949 film Fabiola. He died in 1959 of a heart attack. He is buried in Pontgibaud, in the Puy-de-Dôme départment. Source: Article "Henri Vidal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
35
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-11-26 (105 years old)
Place of Birth
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Acting

1959

Come Dance with Me! as Hervé Dandieu

1959

An Angel on Wheels as Pierre Chaillot

1959

Too Late to Love as Walter Hermelin

1959

Pensione Edelweiss as Jean Monnier

1959

Beast at Bay as Daniel Morane

1959

The Wreckers as Yann Le Cœur

1958

Be Beautiful and Shut Up as l'inspecteur Jean Morel

1957

La Parisienne as Michel Legrand

1957

The Gates of Paris as Pierre Barbier

1957

Too Many Lovers as Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer

1957

To Catch a Spy as Francis Coplan

1957

A Kiss for a Killer as Philippe Delaroche

1956

Cinépanorama as Self

1955

Napoleon as Marshal Joachim Murat

1955

The Wicked Go to Hell as Pierre Macquart

1955

Série noire as L'inspecteur Léo Fardier

1955

Scampolo 53 as Not available

1954

Attila as Aetius

1954

Orient Express as Jacques Ferrand

1952

The Seven Deadly Sins as Dr. Henri (segment "Gluttony")

1952

Desperate Decision as Steve

1952

It Happened in Paris as Vladimir Krasnya

1951

The Passerby as François Malard

1951

The Strange Madame X as Étienne

1950

The Strollers as Jean-Louis Cavalade

1950

Here Is the Beauty as Pierre Leroux

1949

Fabiola as Rhual

1949

The Hell of Lost Pilots as Captain Bertrand

1947

The Damned as Docteur Guilbert

1947

The Fan as Pierre

1946

Strange Fate as Alain de Saulieu

1944

Angel of the Night as Bob, le trésorier

1943

Homeport as Raymond

1941

Montmartre on the Seine as Maurice Cazaux