Henri Vidal
Acting
Born: 1919-11-26 in Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
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.
Known For
Cinépanorama
Self
Napoleon
Marshal Joachim Murat
Fabiola
Rhual
La Parisienne
Michel Legrand
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
l'inspecteur Jean Morel
The Wreckers
Yann Le Cœur
Scampolo 53
The Gates of Paris
Pierre Barbier
The Seven Deadly Sins
Doctor Henri / Antonin (segment "La Gourmandise")
Here Is the Beauty
Pierre Leroux
Come Dance with Me!
Hervé Dandieu
It Happened in Paris
Vladimir Krasnya
An Angel on Wheels
Pierre Chaillot
The Strollers
Jean-Louis Cavalade
The Passerby
François Malard
Strange Fate
Alain de Saulieu
Orient Express
Jacques Ferrand
Attila
Aetius
House on the Waterfront
Michel
Angel of the Night
Bob, le trésorier
The Strange Madame X
Étienne
The Fan
Pierre
The Damned
Doctor Guilbert
Montmartre on the Seine
Maurice Cazaux
Desperate Decision
Steve
Too Late to Love
Walter Hermelin
Too Many Lovers
Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer
To Catch a Spy
Francis Coplan
The Wicked Go to Hell
Pierre Macquart
Ursule and Grelu
Pensione Edelweiss
Jean Monnier
A Kiss for a Killer
Philippe Delaroche
Beast at Bay
Daniel Morane
Homeport
Raymond
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Captain Bertrand