Henri Vidal

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: Acting

Born: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, 1919-11-26

Died: 1959-12-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	Montmartre on the Seine	Maurice Cazaux	56
2	1943	Homeport	Raymond	60
3	1944	Angel of the Night	Bob, le trésorier	0
4	1946	Strange Fate	Alain de Saulieu	0
5	1947	The Fan	Pierre	0
6	1947	The Damned	Docteur Guilbert	60
7	1949	Fabiola	Rhual	59
8	1949	The Hell of Lost Pilots	Captain Bertrand	0
9	1950	Here Is the Beauty	Pierre Leroux	0
10	1950	The Strollers	Jean-Louis Cavalade	52
11	1951	The Passerby	François Malard	47
12	1951	The Strange Madame X	Étienne	53
13	1952	The Seven Deadly Sins	Dr. Henri (segment "Gluttony")	60
14	1952	Desperate Decision	Steve	53
15	1952	It Happened in Paris	Vladimir Krasnya	0
16	1954	Orient Express	Jacques Ferrand	70
17	1954	Attila	Aetius	53
18	1955	Série noire	L'inspecteur Léo Fardier	50
19	1955	Scampolo 53		0
20	1955	Napoleon	Marshal Joachim Murat	66
21	1955	House on the Waterfront	Michel	67
22	1955	The Wicked Go to Hell	Pierre Macquart	62
23	1957	To Catch a Spy	Francis Coplan	50
24	1957	The Gates of Paris	Pierre Barbier	66
25	1957	A Kiss for a Killer	Philippe Delaroche	56
26	1957	Too Many Lovers	Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer	56
27	1957	La Parisienne	Michel Legrand	56
28	1958	Be Beautiful and Shut Up	l'inspecteur Jean Morel	55
29	1959	The Wreckers	Yann Le Cœur	55
30	1959	Pensione Edelweiss	Jean Monnier	51
31	1959	Too Late to Love	Walter Hermelin	56
32	1959	Beast at Bay	Daniel Morane	47
33	1959	An Angel on Wheels	Pierre Chaillot	53
34	1959	Come Dance with Me!	Hervé Dandieu	59

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Title

Role

Vote Average

1941