Henri Letondal
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.
Acting
Movie
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Grotier (uncredited)
1953
Movie
Monkey Business
as Jerome Kitzel
1952
Movie
The Big Clock
as Antique Dealer
1948
Movie
Royal Wedding
as Purser (uncredited)
1951
Movie
The Big Sky
as La Badie
1952
Movie
The Razor's Edge
as Police Inspector at Sophie's Death (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Madame Bovary
as Guillaumin
1949
Movie
Come to the Stable
as Father Barraud (uncredited)
1949
Movie
A Bullet for Joey
as Dubois
1955
Movie
On the Riviera
as Louis Foral
1951
Movie
Dangerous When Wet
as Joubert
1953
Movie
What Price Glory
as Cognac Pete
1952
Movie
Magnificent Doll
as Count D'Arignon
1946
Movie
Kind Lady
as Monsieur Malaquaise
1951
Movie
South Sea Woman
as Alphonse
1953
Movie
The Wild North
as John Mudd (uncredited)
1952
Movie
Please Believe Me
as Jacques Carnet
1950
Movie
Apartment for Peggy
as Prof. Roland Pavin
1948
Movie
The Gambler from Natchez
as Police Commissioner Robert Renard
1954
Movie
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
as Louis Chabonet
1947
Movie
Little Boy Lost
as Tracing Service Clerk
1953
Movie
Mother Is a Freshman
as Prof. Romaine (uncredited)
1949
Movie
La forteresse
as Edward Durant
1947