Henri Letondal
- Interprétation
- 29 juin 1901 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 15 février 1955
Biographie
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.
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Filmographie
- Un pruneau pour Joe · Dubois
- Natchez · Police Commissioner Robert Renard
- Le Petit Garçon perdu · Tracing Service Clerk
- Les hommes préfèrent les blondes · Grotier (uncredited)
- Le Bagarreur du Pacifique · Alphonse
- Traversons la Manche · Joubert
- Chérie je me sens rajeunir · Jerome Kitzel
- Deux durs à cuire · Cognac Pete
- La Captive aux yeux clairs · La Badie
- Au pays de la peur · John Mudd (uncredited)
- Kind Lady · Monsieur Malaquaise
- Sur la Riviera · Louis Foral
- Mariage Royal · Purser (uncredited)
- Please Believe Me · Jacques Carnet
- Madame Bovary · Guillaumin
- Come to the Stable · Father Barraud (uncredited)
- Mother Is a Freshman · Prof. Romaine (uncredited)
- Apartment for Peggy · Prof. Roland Pavin
- La Grande Horloge · Antique Dealer
- The Crime Doctor's Gamble · Louis Chabonet
- La forteresse · Edward Durant
- Magnificent Doll · Count D'Arignon
- Le fil du rasoir · Police Inspector at Sophie's Death (uncredited)