Henri Vidal
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.
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Filmography (36 Appearances)
Ursule and Grelu
Come Dance with Me!
An Angel on Wheels
Beast at Bay
Too Late to Love
Pensione Edelweiss
The Wreckers
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
La Parisienne
Too Many Lovers
A Kiss for a Killer
The Gates of Paris
To Catch a Spy
Cinépanorama
The Wicked Go to Hell
House on the Waterfront
Napoleon
Scampolo 53
Série noire
Attila
Orient Express
It Happened in Paris
Desperate Decision
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Strange Madame X
The Passerby
The Strollers
Here Is the Beauty
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Fabiola
The Damned
The Fan
Strange Fate
Angel of the Night
Homeport
Montmartre on the Seine