Henri Vidal
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-11-26
Day of Death
1959-12-10 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
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.
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)
A Kiss for a Killer
as Philippe Delaroche
(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
(1955)
Napoleon
as Marshal Joachim Murat
(1955)
Série noire
as L'inspecteur Léo Fardier
(1955)
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Pierre Macquart
(1955)
House on the Waterfront
as Michel
(1955)
(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)
Here Is the Beauty
as Pierre Leroux
(1950)
The Strollers
as Jean-Louis Cavalade
(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