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.

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Known For

Cinépanorama

Self

La Parisienne

Michel Legrand

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

l'inspecteur Jean Morel

Attila

Aetius

The Damned

Docteur Guilbert

The Seven Deadly Sins

Dr. Henri (segment "Gluttony")

Napoleon

Marshal Joachim Murat

The Gates of Paris

Pierre Barbier

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1959	Come Dance with Me!	Hervé Dandieu
1959	An Angel on Wheels	Pierre Chaillot
1959	Pensione Edelweiss	Jean Monnier
1959	Too Late to Love	Walter Hermelin
1959	Beast at Bay	Daniel Morane
1959	The Wreckers	Yann Le Cœur
1958	Be Beautiful and Shut Up	l'inspecteur Jean Morel
1957	The Gates of Paris	Pierre Barbier
1957	La Parisienne	Michel Legrand
1957	To Catch a Spy	Francis Coplan
1957	A Kiss for a Killer	Philippe Delaroche
1957	Too Many Lovers	Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer
1955	House on the Waterfront	Michel
1955	Scampolo 53
1955	The Wicked Go to Hell	Pierre Macquart
1955	Série noire	L'inspecteur Léo Fardier
1955	Napoleon	Marshal Joachim Murat
1954	Attila	Aetius
1954	Orient Express	Jacques Ferrand
1952	The Seven Deadly Sins	Dr. Henri (segment "Gluttony")
1952	It Happened in Paris	Vladimir Krasnya
1952	Desperate Decision	Steve
1951	The Strange Madame X	Étienne
1951	The Passerby	François Malard
1950	Here Is the Beauty	Pierre Leroux
1950	The Strollers	Jean-Louis Cavalade
1949	The Hell of Lost Pilots	Captain Bertrand
1949	Fabiola	Rhual
1947	The Damned	Docteur Guilbert
1947	The Fan	Pierre
1946	Strange Fate	Alain de Saulieu
1944	Angel of the Night	Bob, le trésorier
1943	Homeport	Raymond
1941	Montmartre on the Seine	Maurice Cazaux

Year	TV Show	Role
1956	Cinépanorama	Self