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Henri Vidal

Henri Vidal

Birthday: 1919-11-26 | Place of Birth: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
The Wicked Go to Hell

as    Pierre Macquart

1959
Beast at Bay

as    Daniel Morane

1959
Come Dance with Me!

as    Hervé Dandieu

1959
Pensione Edelweiss

as    Jean Monnier

1959
House on the Waterfront

as    Michel

1959
An Angel on Wheels

as    Pierre Chaillot

1959
Too Late to Love

as    Walter Hermelin

1959
The Wreckers

as    Yann Le Cœur

1958
Attila

as    Aetius

1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up

as    l'inspecteur Jean Morel

1957
To Catch a Spy

as    Francis Coplan

1957
Too Many Lovers

as    Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer

1957
La Parisienne

as    Michel Legrand

1957
A Kiss for a Killer

as    Philippe Delaroche

1957
The Gates of Paris

as    Pierre Barbier

1955
Série noire

as    L'inspecteur Léo Fardier

1954
Orient Express

as    Jacques Ferrand

1952
Desperate Decision

as    Steve

1951
The Passerby

as    François Malard

1951
Fabiola

as    Rhual

1951
The Strange Madame X

as    Étienne

1950
The Strollers

as    Jean-Louis Cavalade

1950
Here Is the Beauty

as    Pierre Leroux

1948
The Damned

as    Doctor Guilbert

1947
The Fan

as    Pierre

1946
Strange Fate

as    Alain de Saulieu

1944
Angel of the Night

as    Bob, le trésorier

1941
Montmartre on the Seine

as    Maurice Cazaux