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Henri Vidal | |
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| Born | 26 November 1919 Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Died | 10 December 1959 (aged 40) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1941–1959 |
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Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor.
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 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. [1] 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 department.
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 1941 | Montmartre-sur-Seine | Maurice Cazaux | Georges Lacombe | |
| 1943 | Home Port | Raymond | Jean Choux | |
| 1944 | The Angel of the Night | Bob | André Berthomieu | |
| 1946 | Strange Fate | Alain deSaulieu | Louis Cuny | |
| 1947 | Naughty Martine | Pierre | Emil E. Reinert | |
| Les Maudits | Doctor Guilbert | René Clément | ||
| 1949 | Fabiola | Rual | Alessandro Blasetti | |
| Le paradis des pilotes perdus | Capitaine Bertrand | Georges Lampin | ||
| 1950 | La Belle que voilà | Pierre Leroux | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | |
| Quay of Grenelle | Jean-Louis Lavalade | Emil E. Reinert | ||
| 1951 | The Passerby | François Malard | Henri Calef | |
| L'Étrange Madame X | Etienne | Jean Grémillon | ||
| 1952 | Les Sept péchés capitaux | Le docteur Henri / Antonin | Carlo Rim | (segment "Gourmandise, La / Gluttony") |
| Desperate Decision | Steve | Yves Allégret | ||
| Article 519, Penal Code | Renato Berti | Leonardo Cortese | ||
| It Happened in Paris | Vladimir Krasnya | John Berry and Henri Lavorel | ||
| 1953 | Scampolo 53 | Enrico Sacchi | Giorgio Bianchi | |
| 1954 | Orient-Express | Jacques Ferrand | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | |
| Attila | Aetius | Pietro Francisci | ||
| 1955 | Série noire | Inspecteur Léo Fardier | Pierre Foucaud | |
| Napoléon | Joachim Murat | Sacha Guitry | ||
| House on the Waterfront | Michel | Edmond T. Gréville | ||
| The Wicked Go to Hell | Pierre Macquart | Robert Hossein | ||
| 1957 | Action immédiate | Francis Coplan | Maurice Labro | |
| Porte des Lilas | Pierre Barbier | René Clair | ||
| A Kiss for a Killer | Philippe Delaroche | Henri Verneuil | ||
| Charming Boys | Jo, dit Kid Chabanne - le boxeur | Henri Decoin | ||
| Une Parisienne | Michel Legrand | Michel Boisrond | ||
| 1958 | Be Beautiful But Shut Up | Jean Morel | Marc Allégret | |
| 1959 | Les naufrageurs | Yann Le Coeur | Charles Brabant | |
| Pensione Edelweiss | Jean Monnier | Ottorino Franco Bertolini | ||
| Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? | Walter Hermelin | Henri Decoin | ||
| La Bête à l'affût | Daniel Morane | Pierre Chenal | ||
| An Angel on Wheels | Pierre Chaillot | Géza von Radványi | ||
| Voulez-vous danser avec moi ? | Hervé Dandieu | Michel Boisrond | Posthumous Release |
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