Henri Letondal

Biography

Henri Letondal was a French-Canadian actor, critic, and musician whose career spanned multiple disciplines. He began his journey as a music and theatre critic for La Patrie in the early 1920s, before transitioning into film criticism and eventually becoming a character actor in Hollywood's Golden Age. Notably, he worked as artistic director of the radio program L'Heure provinciale and directed several films at France-Film. Letondal appeared in over 35 Hollywood films before his death in 1955.