Henri Vidal


































Henri Vidal

Gola2.jpg
Henri Vidal and Claudine Dupuis in
Les Sept péchés capitaux
("La Gourmandise")

Born
(1919-11-26)26 November 1919

Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Died 10 December 1959(1959-12-10) (aged 40)
Paris, France

Cause of death heart attack
Occupation Actor
Years active 1941–1959
Spouse(s) Michèle Cordoue (1943–1946) (divorced)
Michèle Morgan (1950–1959) (his death)

Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor.




Contents






  • 1 Film career


  • 2 Personal life


  • 3 Death


  • 4 Selected filmography


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Film career


Henri Lucien Raymond Vidal[1] 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 36 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.



Personal life


In May 1943 he married the actress Michèle Cordoba, and they divorced in July 1946.[1] In 1950 he married French actress Michèle Morgan, whom he met while filming Alessandro Blasetti's 1949 film Fabiola.



Death


He died in 1959 of a heart attack. He is buried in Pontgibaud, in the Puy-de-Dôme départment.



Selected filmography



















































































































Year
Title
Role
Director
1946

Strange Fate
Alain deSaulieu

Louis Cuny
1947

Les Maudits

Doctor Guilbert

René Clément
1949

Fabiola

Rual

Alessandro Blasetti
1950

La Belle que voilà

Pierre Leroux

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

The Passerby

François Malard

Henri Calef
1951

L'Étrange Madame X

Etienne

Jean Grémillon
1952

Les Sept péchés capitaux ("La Gourmandise")

Le docteur Henri / Antonin
Carlo Rim
1954

Orient-Express

Jacques Ferrand

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Attila

Aetius

Pietro Francisci
1955

Série noire [fr]

Inspecteur Léo Fardier

Pierre Foucaud [fr]

Napoléon

Joachim Murat

Sacha Guitry
1957

Action immédiate [fr]

Francis Coplan

Maurice Labro

Porte des Lilas

Pierre Barbier

René Clair

Une manche et la belle [fr]

Philippe Delaroche

Henri Verneuil

Une Parisienne

Michel Legrand

Michel Boisrond
1958

Be Beautiful But Shut Up

Jean Morel

Marc Allégret
1959

Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?

Walter Hermelin

Henri Decoin

An Angel on Wheels

Pierre Chaillot

Géza von Radványi

Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?

Hervé Dandieu

Michel Boisrond


References





  1. ^ ab Source : Les Gens du cinéma




External links




  • Henri Vidal on IMDb


  • Henri Vidal at AllMovie








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