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.

Known For

Cinépanorama

Napoleon

Attila

Fabiola

The Strange Madame X

The Damned

Come Dance with Me!

The Gates of Paris

All Movies (35)

• Ursule and Grelu1974
• Come Dance with Me!1959 · as Hervé Dandieu
• An Angel on Wheels1959 · as Pierre Chaillot
• Beast at Bay1959 · as Daniel Morane
• Too Late to Love1959 · as Walter Hermelin
• Pensione Edelweiss1959 · as Jean Monnier
• The Wreckers1959 · as Yann Le Cœur
• Be Beautiful and Shut Up1958 · as l'inspecteur Jean Morel
• La Parisienne1957 · as Michel Legrand
• Too Many Lovers1957 · as Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer
• A Kiss for a Killer1957 · as Philippe Delaroche
• The Gates of Paris1957 · as Pierre Barbier
• To Catch a Spy1957 · as Francis Coplan
• The Wicked Go to Hell1955 · as Pierre Macquart
• House on the Waterfront1955 · as Michel
• Napoleon1955 · as Marshal Joachim Murat
• Scampolo 531955
• Série noire1955 · as L'inspecteur Léo Fardier
• Attila1954 · as Aetius
• Orient Express1954 · as Jacques Ferrand
• It Happened in Paris1952 · as Vladimir Krasnya
• Desperate Decision1952 · as Steve
• The Seven Deadly Sins1952 · as Doctor Henri / Antonin (segment "La Gourmandise")
• The Strange Madame X1951 · as Étienne
• The Passerby1951 · as François Malard
• The Strollers1950 · as Jean-Louis Cavalade
• Here Is the Beauty1950 · as Pierre Leroux
• The Hell of Lost Pilots1949 · as Captain Bertrand
• Fabiola1949 · as Rhual
• The Damned1947 · as Doctor Guilbert
• The Fan1947 · as Pierre
• Strange Fate1946 · as Alain de Saulieu
• Angel of the Night1944 · as Bob, le trésorier
• Homeport1943 · as Raymond
• Montmartre on the Seine1941 · as Maurice Cazaux

All TV Shows (1)

• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self