Henri Vidal
Actor
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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Filmography
The Gates of Paris
as Pierre Barbier 1957
La Parisienne
as Michel Legrand 1957
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
as l'inspecteur Jean Morel 1958
Come Dance with Me!
as Hervé Dandieu 1959
Napoleon
as Marshal Joachim Murat 1955
Attila
as Aetius 1954
An Angel on Wheels
as Pierre Chaillot 1959
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Doctor Henri / Antonin (segment "La Gourmandise") 1952
A Kiss for a Killer
as Philippe Delaroche 1957
Pensione Edelweiss
as Jean Monnier 1959
Fabiola
as Rhual 1949
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Pierre Macquart 1955
The Strollers
as Jean-Louis Cavalade 1950
The Strange Madame X
as Étienne 1951
Too Late to Love
as Walter Hermelin 1959
Beast at Bay
as Daniel Morane 1959