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Henri Vidal
Henri Vidal and Claudine Dupuis in Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952) ("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
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1941–1959
Spouses	Michèle Cordoue ​ ​(m. 1943; div. 1946)​ Michèle Morgan ​ ​(m. 1950)​

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

Film career

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.

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.

Death

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

Filmography

References

1. ^ Source : Les Gens du cinéma

External links

• Henri Vidal at IMDb
• Henri Vidal at AllMovie

• 1919 births
• 1959 deaths
• French male film actors
• 20th-century French male actors