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

Spécial cinéma

Le Grand Échiquier

Discorama

Samedi soir

Dim Dam Dom

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Cinépanorama

The Train

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Star Life

Acting

2021

René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu as Lui-même

2012

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo as Self

2007

Arletty, Lady Paname as Self (archive footage)

2001

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé as Le père Jules (archive footage)

1990

Star Life as Self (archive footage)

1978

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)

1977

Journey Through History as Self (archive footage)

1975

The Red Ibis as Zizi

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan as Erotologist

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)

1972

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life as Attorney Zorn

Blanche as Master

Le Grand Échiquier as Self

1971

Samedi soir as Self

1970

The House as Louis Compiegne

Let's Have a Riot as Cavazza

1968

The Marriage Came Tumbling Down as Le vieux Jéricho

1967

The Two of Us as Pépé

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur as Self - Interviewee

1966

Two Hours to Kill as Locker Attendant

1965

Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry as Self - Interviewee

Dim Dam Dom as Self

1964

The Train as Papa Boul

Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Le Grognard

1963

Ecco as Self

1962

Emile's Boat as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Jérôme Chambard

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz as Alboise

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

Pete the Tender as Pierrot

1959

The Head as Prof. Dr. Abel

Discorama as Self

1958

It Happened in Broad Daylight as Jacquier

A Certain Mr. Jo as Joseph "Jo" Guardini

1957

Three Make a Pair as Commissaire Bernard

1956

La joyeuse prison as Benoit, chief guard

Mémoires d'un flic as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

Cinépanorama as Self

1955

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

1954

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard as Auguste Bard

Hungarian Rhapsody as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

The Anatomy of Love as Padre Silvio

At the Order of the Czar as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

Reflets de Cannes as Self

1953

Femmes de Paris as Professor Charles Buisson

The Virtuous Scoundrel as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

Saadia as Bou Rezza

The Merchant of Venice as Shylock

1952

Crimson Curtain as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

Mister Taxi as Pierre Verger

The Road to Damascus as Caïphe

Hôtel des Invalides as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

Full House as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")

The Girl with the Whip as Le tuteur

1951

Poison as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

The Two Truths as Cidoni

1950

The Beauty of the Devil as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

1949

Fabiola as Senator Fabius Severus

1948

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'

1947

Panic as Monsieur Hire

Not Guilty as Docteur Ancelin

The Crowned Fish Tavern as Captain Palmer

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Alcide Garonne

1946

A Friend Will Come Tonight as Michel Lemaret

1943

Vautrin the Thief as Vautrin

Shop Girls of Paris as Baudu

1942

Girl of the Golden West as Butler

1941

The King's Jester as Rigoletto

Tosca as Il barone Scarpia

1940

Comedy of Happiness as Monsieur Jourdain

Paris - New-York as Le commissaire Boucheron

The Musicians of the Sky as Le capitaine Simon

1939

The Last Turning as Nick Marino

Extenuating Circumstances as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

Fric-Frac as Jo

Cocoanut as Josserand

Deputy Eusèbe as Eusèbe Bonbonneau

The End of the Day as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

Behind the Facade as Picking, knife-throwing artist

Cavalcade of Love as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

1938

Boys' School as Lemel, le professeur de dessin

Port of Shadows as Zabel

Mother Love as Michel Quercy

The Stream as le comte Edouard de Bourgogne

The New Rich as Martinet

Mirages as Michel

Beautiful Star as Léon

1937

Boulot aviateur as Baron Gobèche

Bizarre, Bizarre as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

La Bataille silencieuse as Sauvin

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Michel

Le Choc en retour as Laverdac

1936

Moutonnet as Frècheville

Girls of Paris

Under Western Eyes as Lespara

The Fleeing Dead as Achille Baluchet

Let's Make a Dream as Un Invité (Prologue)

The Twins of Brighton as Labrosse

1935

Le Bébé de l'escadron as Perrot-Joly

Lovers and Thieves as Doizeau

A Bum Deal as Boudu

Adémaï au Moyen Âge as Lord Pickwickdam

1934

L'Atalante as Père Jules

Ladies Lake as Oscar Lyssenhop

Le Bonheur as Noël Malpiaz

Miquette and Her Mother as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette

Léopold le bien-aimé

1933

High and Low as M. Bodeletz

1932

Boudu Saved from Drowning as Priape Boudu

Baleydier

1931

La Chienne as Maurice Legrand

Baby's Laxative as Chouilloux

Jean of the Moon as Jean de la Lune

1930

Illegitimate Child as Lorédan

1929

Pivoine

1928

The Sad Sack as Joseph Turlot

The Passion of Joan of Arc as Jean Lemaître

1925

The Late Mathias Pascal as Jérôme Pomino

The Vocation of André Carel as Gaston Lebeau

1924

The Gallery of Monsters

Les Deux Réalités as Cidoni

Writing

1941

The King's Jester as Screenplay

Production

1932

Boudu Saved from Drowning as Producer

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