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Henri Vidal

Henri Vidal

French actor (1919-1959)
November 26, 1919 (December 10, 1959)

Sursis pour un vivant

V.O.: Pensione Edelweiss
Fr. 1959. Drama by Victor Merenda with Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams, Lino Ventura. A criminal organization offers desperate people a pleasant and guaranteed suicide.
Runtime: 86 min.

Come Dance With Me

V.O.: Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
Fr. 1959. Police comedy by Michel Boisrond with Henri Vidal, Brigitte Bardot, Noël Roquevert. A young woman conducts her own investigation into the murder her husband is accused of.
Runtime: 89 min.

Angel on Earth

V.O.: Ein Engel auf Erden
All. 1959. Fantasy comedy by Geza von Radvanyi with Romy Schneider, Henri Vidal, Jean-Paul Belmondo. The guardian angel of a disappointed lover appears to him in the guise of a beautiful stewardess.
Runtime: 86 min.

The Creeping Beast

V.O.: La Bête à l'affût
Fr. 1959. Crime drama by Pierre Chenal with Françoise Arnoul, Henri Vidal, Michel Piccoli. A wealthy widow comes to the aid of a prison escapee.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1958. Melodrama by Charles Brabant with Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel, Charles Vanel. In the nineteenth century, the misadventures of a lonely young girl who lives on a lost island in the Atlantic where famine and superstition are rampant.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1958. Police comedy by Marc Allégret with Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Darry Cowl. A young girl escapes from a rehabilitation centre and marries a police officer.
Runtime: 105 min.

Too Late to Love

V.O.: Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?
Fr. 1958. Drama by Henri Decoin with Henri Vidal, Michèle Morgan, Claude Dauphin. A lawyer pleading against wine traffickers is herself an alcoholic.
Runtime: 98 min.

Gates of Paris

V.O.: Porte des lilas
Fr. 1957. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Pierre Brasseur, Henri Vidal, Dany Carrel. For a few days, a poor man shelters a bandit being hunted by the police.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1957. Comedy by Michel Boisrond with Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal. Taking advantage of the visit of a Prince Consort to Paris, a young girl decides to test her husband's fidelity.
Runtime: 83 min.

A Kiss for a Killer

V.O.: Une Manche et la belle
Fr. 1957. Drama by Henri Verneuil with Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Isa Miranda. A man is tricked by a woman into killing his wife.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1957. Musical by Henri Decoin with Zizi Jeanmaire, Daniel Gélin, Henri Vidal. A music hall dancer dreams of a unique, lasting love.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 1956. Spy drama by Maurice Labro with Henri Vidal, Jacques Dacqmine, Barbara Laage. An agent of the Second Bureau is assigned to retrieve a secret formula.
Runtime: 103 min.

The Wicked Go to Hell

V.O.: Les Salauds vont en enfer
Fr. 1955. Drama by Robert Hossein, Georges Lampin with Marina Vlady, Henri Vidal, Serge Reggiani. A young woman held captive by two prison escapees uses her charm to turn them against each other.
Runtime: 102 min.

Attila, The Hun

V.O.: Attila
It. 1955. History by Pietro Francisci with Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Claude Laydu. A few episodes of the invasion of the Roman Empire by the Huns.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1954. Drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Jean Gabin, Henri Vidal, Andrée Debar. When a captain is charged with recovering the wreckage of a ship, he discovers a murdered woman.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1954. Crime drama by Pierre Foucaud with Henri Vidal, Monique Van Vooren, Erich von Stroheim. A police officer breaks into a drug gang.
Runtime: 88 min.
It. 1954. Drama by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia with Silvana Pampanini, Henri Vidal, Curd Jürgens. In a village in the Alps, the forced stop of a train causes various romantic and police incidents.
Runtime: 100 min.

Les Femmes mènent le jeu

V.O.: Scampolo 53
It. 1953. Mores comedy by Giorgio Bianchi with Maria Fiore, Henri Vidal, Cosetta Greco.
Runtime: 77 min.

The Seven Deadly Sins

V.O.: Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Runtime: 120 min.

Violence charnelle

V.O.: Art. 519 codice penale
It. 1952. Social drama by Leonardo Cortese with Henri Vidal, Cosetta Greco, Paolo Stoppa. To avoid prison, a man agrees to marry the girl he seduced.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1952. Drama by Yves Allégret with Danièle Delorme, Henri Vidal, Jean Debucourt. In Dublin in 1922, a simple-minded girl leaves the convent to avenge her brother's murder, but falls in love with the murderer.
Runtime: 84 min.
Fr. 1951. Drama by Henri Calef with Henri Vidal, Maria Mauban, Daniel Ivernel.
Runtime: 102 min.

Strange Madame X

V.O.: L'Étrange Madame X
Fr. 1950. Melodrama by Jean Grémillon with Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Maurice Escande. A good cabinetmaker falls in love with a maid who turns out to be the disillusioned wife of a rich socialite publisher.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1950. Crime drama by Emil E. Reinert with Henri Vidal, Maria Mauban, Françoise Arnoul. A young man, a viper hunter, pretends to be a criminal.
It. 1949. History by Alessandro Blasetti with Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel Simon. The daughter of a Roman patrician falls in love with a Christian gladiator.
Runtime: 164 min.
Fr. 1949. Sentimental drama by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Marcelle Géniat. Abandoned by her fianc?, an apprentice dancer gives herself to a rich industrialist, which exacerbates the jealousy of her former lover.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Damned

V.O.: Les Maudits
Fr. 1947. Adventures by René Clément with Henri Vidal, Marcel Dalio, Florence Marly. Nazi war criminals escape aboard a submarine.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1946. Dramatic comedy by Louis Cuny with Renée Saint-Cyr, Henri Vidal, Denise Grey. A man who developed amnesia during the war no longer recognizes his wife.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1944. Dramatic comedy by André Berthomieu with Jean-Louis Barrault, Michèle Alfa, Henri Vidal. A group of students take in a young girl dying of hunger.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1943. Dramatic comedy by Jean Choux with Michèle Alfa, René Dary, Édouard Delmont.
Runtime: 91 min.

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