Highest rated movie: The Big Clock (1948)
Lowest rated movie: A Bullet for Joey (1955)
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Movies starring Henri Letondal have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
The Big Clock - released in 1948 - is Henri Letondal's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 50 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Henri Letondal is A Bullet for Joey - released in 1955 - with a score of 43% based on 4 reviews.
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.
Henri Letondal has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Harry Morgan, Elsa Lanchester and Steven Geray.
Henri Letondal has worked with these film directors: Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli, John Ford and John Sturges.
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