| Bobby Henrey | |
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| Born | 26 June 1939 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados, France |
| Occupation | Actor (later an accountant and chaplain)[1] |
| Years active | 1948-1951 |
Bobby Henrey (later Robert Henrey), a former child actor best known for his role as the son of the French ambassador to London in the classic 1948 English film The Fallen Idol, directed by Carol Reed.
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Henrey was the son of Robert Henrey and the memoirist Madeleine Gal. Gal would go on to write about her son's film career in two of her many volumes of memoirs, the 1948 A Film Star in Belgrave Square and the 1950 A Journey To Vienna.
He went on to study at Eton College and Oxford University, where he obtained a degree in language and literature.
At age 25, Henrey moved to the United States, eventually settling in Greenwich, Connecticut. He and his wife Lisette had a son, Edward, a graphic artist and illustrator.
Henrey was cast in The Fallen Idol on the basis of a photograph of him which appeared on the dustjacket of his mother's book A Village in Piccadilly. Studio head Alexander Korda passed on the photograph to director Carol Reed, who thought it exactly matched his vision of the character. The movie took eight months to film, a long time for that era, due to Reed's exacting standards. Henrey's second film, The Wonder Kid, was not a great success, influencing his family's belief that he should return to education.[2]
Henrey worked for a number of years as a tax consulting partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in New York City until his retirement in 1997.
Henrey was ordained as a deacon in 1984 and went on to serve as an interfaith chaplain at Greenwich Hospital after his certification in 2001.