Henri Vidal

 ( 1919 Births ) 

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

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Film career Henri Lucien Raymond VidalSource : Les Gens du cinéma 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.

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Personal life 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.

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Death

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

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Filmography

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	Flavius Aetius	Pietro Francisci
1955		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		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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Categories: 1919 Births, 1959 Deaths, French Male Film Actors, 20th-century French Male Actors

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