Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1919-11-26
Day of Death
1959-12-10
Place of Birth
Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
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.
Filmography (35)
Ursule and Grelu
1974
Come Dance with Me!
1959
An Angel on Wheels
1959
Beast at Bay
1959
Too Late to Love
1959
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
The Wreckers
1959
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
La Parisienne
1957
Too Many Lovers
1957
A Kiss for a Killer
1957
The Gates of Paris
1957
To Catch a Spy
1957
The Wicked Go to Hell
1955
