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

• 1974Ursule and Grelu
• 1959An Angel on Wheels — Pierre Chaillot
• 1959Beast at Bay — Daniel Morane
• 1959Come Dance with Me! — Hervé Dandieu
• 1959Pensione Edelweiss — Jean Monnier
• 1959The Wreckers — Yann Le Cœur
• 1959Too Late to Love — Walter Hermelin
• 1958Be Beautiful and Shut Up — l'inspecteur Jean Morel
• 1957A Kiss for a Killer — Philippe Delaroche
• 1957La Parisienne — Michel Legrand
• 1957The Gates of Paris — Pierre Barbier
• 1957To Catch a Spy — Francis Coplan
• 1957Too Many Lovers — Jo aka 'Kid Chabanne', boxer
• 1955House on the Waterfront — Michel
• 1955Napoleon — Marshal Joachim Murat
• 1955Scampolo 53
• 1955Série noire — L'inspecteur Léo Fardier
• 1955The Wicked Go to Hell — Pierre Macquart
• 1954Attila — Aetius
• 1954Orient Express — Jacques Ferrand
• 1952Desperate Decision — Steve
• 1952It Happened in Paris — Vladimir Krasnya
• 1952The Seven Deadly Sins — Doctor Henri / Antonin (segment "La Gourmandise")
• 1951The Passerby — François Malard
• 1951The Strange Madame X — Étienne
• 1950Here Is the Beauty — Pierre Leroux
• 1950The Strollers — Jean-Louis Cavalade
• 1949Fabiola — Rhual
• 1949The Hell of Lost Pilots — Captain Bertrand
• 1947The Damned — Doctor Guilbert
• 1947The Fan — Pierre
• 1946Strange Fate — Alain de Saulieu
• 1944Angel of the Night — Bob, le trésorier
• 1943Homeport — Raymond
• 1941Montmartre on the Seine — Maurice Cazaux

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Cinépanorama — Self