Henri Letondal
Actor
Biography
Henri Letondal was a French-Canadian music critic, administrator, cellist, playwright and actor. He was a man of wide interests and wrote many sketches and revues, including, on occasion, the music. In his youth he studied the cello with Gustave Labelle. Around 1920 he became a critic of concerts and variety shows for "La Patrie" (Montreal) and served 1926-29 as that paper's Paris correspondent. He also wrote about music for "Le Petit Journal" and was music critic around 1935 for "Le Canada". For CKAC radio in Montreal he was artistic director 1929-38 of 'L'Heure provinciale,' which was sponsored by the Quebec government to promote the province's musicians and composers. He also was director general of the film company France-Film.
It has been estimated that Letondal wrote some 160 radio plays and sketches 1937-1948, producing them himself and occasionally writing the music. In 1946 he embarked on an intensive Hollywood film career, appearing in 35 Hollywood films and one Canadian, before he he died in Hollywood in 1955.
Filmography
Monkey Business
as Jerome Kitzel 1952
The Big Clock
as Antique Dealer 1948
Royal Wedding
as Purser (uncredited) 1951
The Big Sky
as La Badie 1952
The Razor's Edge
as Police Inspector at Sophie's Death (uncredited) 1946
Madame Bovary
as Guillaumin 1949
Come to the Stable
as Father Barraud (uncredited) 1949
A Bullet for Joey
as Dubois 1955
On the Riviera
as Louis Foral 1951
Dangerous When Wet
as Joubert 1953
What Price Glory
as Cognac Pete 1952
Magnificent Doll
as Count D'Arignon 1946
Kind Lady
as Monsieur Malaquaise 1951
South Sea Woman
as Alphonse 1953
The Wild North
as John Mudd (uncredited) 1952
Please Believe Me
as Jacques Carnet 1950