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