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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 9, 1895
Place of Birth:
Geneva, Switzerland
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Michel Simon
Biography
Michel Simon (9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss actor. He appeared in the notable films La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Head (1959), and The Train (1964).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu | Lui-même |
| 2019 | Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo | Self |
| 2007 | Arletty, Lady Paname | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé | Le père Jules (archive footage) |
| 1977 | Journey Through History | Self (archive footage) |
| 1975 | The Red Ibis | Zizi |
| 1975 | The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan | Erotologist |
| 1972 | The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Attorney Zorn |
| 1972 | Blanche | Master |
| 1970 | The House | Louis Compiegne |
| 1970 | Let's Have a Riot | Cavazza |
| 1968 | The Marriage Came Tumbling Down | Le vieux Jéricho |
| 1967 | The Two of Us | Pépé |
| 1967 | Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur | Self - Interviewee |
| 1967 | La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire | |
| 1966 | Two Hours to Kill | Locker Attendant |
| 1965 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry | Self - Interviewee |
| 1964 | The Train | Papa Boul |
| 1964 | Cyrano and d'Artagnan | Le Grognard |
| 1963 | Ecco | Self |
| 1962 | Emile's Boat | Charles-Edmond Larmentiel |
| 1962 | The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Jérôme Chambard |
| 1960 | The Battle of Austerlitz | Alboise |
| 1960 | Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve |
| 1960 | Pete the Tender | Pierrot |
| 1959 | The Head | Prof. Dr. Abel |
| 1958 | It Happened in Broad Daylight | Jacquier |
| 1958 | A Certain Mr. Jo | Joseph "Jo" Guardini |
| 1957 | Three Make a Pair | Commissaire Bernard |
| 1956 | La joyeuse prison | Benoit, chief guard |
| 1956 | Mémoires d'un flic | Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique |
| 1955 | The Impossible Mr. Pipelet | Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble |
| 1954 | Strange Desire of Mr. Bard | Auguste Bard |
| 1954 | Hungarian Rhapsody | General von Sayn-Wittgenstein |
| 1954 | The Anatomy of Love | Padre Silvio |
| 1954 | At the Order of the Czar | Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein |
| 1953 | Femmes de Paris | Professor Charles Buisson |
| 1953 | The Virtuous Scoundrel | Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste |
| 1953 | Saadia | Bou Rezza |
| 1953 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock |
| 1952 | Crimson Curtain | Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo |
| 1952 | Mister Taxi | Pierre Verger |
| 1952 | The Road to Damascus | Caïphe |
| 1952 | Hôtel des Invalides | Récitant / Narrator (voice) |
| 1952 | Full House | Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur") |
| 1952 | The Girl with the Whip | Le tuteur |
| 1951 | Poison | Paul Louis Victor Braconnier |
| 1951 | The Two Truths | Cidoni |
| 1950 | The Beauty of the Devil | Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust |
| 1949 | Fabiola | Senator Fabius Severus |
| 1948 | La Carcasse et le Tord-cou | Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou' |
| 1947 | Panic | Monsieur Hire |
| 1947 | Not Guilty | Doctor Michel Ancelin |
| 1947 | The Crowned Fish Tavern | Captain Palmer |
| 1947 | The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean | Alcide Garonne |
| 1946 | A Friend Will Come Tonight | Michel Lemaret |
| 1943 | Vautrin the Thief | Vautrin |
| 1943 | Shop Girls of Paris | Baudu |
| 1942 | Girl of the Golden West | Butler |
| 1941 | The King's Jester | Rigoletto |
| 1941 | Tosca | Il barone Scarpia |
| 1940 | Comedy of Happiness | Monsieur Jourdain |
| 1940 | Paris - New-York | Inspector Boucheron |
| 1940 | The Musicians of the Sky | Le capitaine Simon |
| 1939 | The Last Turning | Nick Marino |
| 1939 | Extenuating Circumstances | Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier |
| 1939 | Fric-Frac | Jo |
| 1939 | Cocoanut | Josserand |
| 1939 | Deputy Eusèbe | Eusèbe Bonbonneau |
| 1939 | The End of the Day | Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy |
| 1939 | Behind the Facade | Picking, knife-throwing artist |
| 1939 | Cavalcade of Love | Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret |
| 1938 | Boys' School | Lemel, le professeur de dessin |
| 1938 | Port of Shadows | Zabel |
| 1938 | Mother Love | Michel Quercy |
| 1938 | The Stream | Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot' |
| 1938 | The New Rich | Martinet |
| 1938 | Mirages | Michel |
| 1938 | Beautiful Star | Léon |
| 1937 | Boulot aviateur | Baron Gobèche |
| 1937 | Bizarre, Bizarre | Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel |
| 1937 | La Bataille silencieuse | Sauvin |
| 1937 | Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Michel |
| 1937 | Le Choc en retour | Laverdac |
| 1936 | Moutonnet | Frècheville |
| 1936 | Girls of Paris | Baron de Beaupoil / his brother |
| 1936 | Under Western Eyes | Lespara |
| 1936 | The Fleeing Dead | Achille Baluchet |
| 1936 | Let's Make a Dream | Un Invité (Prologue) |
| 1936 | The Twins of Brighton | Labrosse |
| 1935 | Le Bébé de l'escadron | Perrot-Joly |
| 1935 | Lovers and Thieves | Doizeau |
| 1935 | A Bum Deal | Boudu |
| 1935 | Adémaï au Moyen Âge | Lord Pickwickdam |
| 1934 | L'Atalante | Père Jules |
| 1934 | Ladies Lake | Oscar Lyssenhop |
| 1934 | Le Bonheur | Noël Malpiaz |
| 1934 | Miquette and Her Mother | Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette |
| 1934 | Léopold le bien-aimé | |
| 1933 | High and Low | M. Bodeletz |
| 1932 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Priape Boudu |
| 1932 | Baleydier | |
| 1931 | La Chienne | Maurice Legrand |
| 1931 | Baby's Laxative | Chouilloux |
| 1931 | Jean of the Moon | Jean de la Lune |
| 1930 | Illegitimate Child | Lorédan |
| 1929 | Pivoine | |
| 1928 | The Sad Sack | Joseph Turlot |
| 1928 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Jean Lemaître |
| 1925 | The Late Mathias Pascal | Jérôme Pomino |
| 1925 | The Vocation of André Carel | Gaston Lebeau |
| 1924 | The Gallery of Monsters | |
| Les Deux Réalités | Cidoni |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1965 | Dim Dam Dom | Self |
| 1959 | Discorama | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |