Michel Simon
Born: 1895-04-09 in Geneva, Switzerland
Died: 1975-05-30
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2021
2019
- Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo as Self (archive footage)
2012
2007
- Arletty, Lady Paname as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé as Le père Jules (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
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Blanche as Master
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life as Attorney Zorn
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
1970
- Let's Have a Riot as Cavazza
- The House as Louis Compiegne
1968
- The Marriage Came Tumbling Down as Le vieux Jéricho
1967
- The Two of Us as Pépé
- La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire as Un récitant
- Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur as Self - Interviewee
1966
- Two Hours to Kill as Locker Attendant
1965
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry as Self - Interviewee
1964
- The Train as Papa Boul
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Le Grognard
- Michel Simon as Self
1963
- Ecco as Self
1962
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Jérôme Chambard
- Emile's Boat as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
1960
- Austerlitz as Alboise
- Pete the Tender as Pierrot
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
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
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Mémoires d'un flic as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
- La joyeuse prison as Benoit, chief guard
1955
- The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
- The Anatomy of Love as Padre Silvio
- Strange Desire of Mr. Bard as Auguste Bard
- At the Order of the Czar as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
- Hungarian Rhapsody as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
1953
- Saadia as Bou Rezza
- The Merchant of Venice as Shylock
- The Virtuous Scoundrel as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
- Femmes de Paris as Professor Charles Buisson
1952
- The Girl with the Whip as Le tuteur
- Full House as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
- Crimson Curtain as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
- The Road to Damascus as Caïphe
- Hôtel des Invalides as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
- Mister Taxi as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
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
- The Crowned Fish Tavern as Captain Palmer
- Not Guilty as Doctor Michel Ancelin
- Panic as Monsieur Hire
- 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
- Paris - New-York as Inspector Boucheron
- Comedy of Happiness as Monsieur Jourdain
- The Musicians of the Sky as Le capitaine Simon
1939
- Fric-Frac as Jo
- Extenuating Circumstances as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
- The Last Turning as Nick Marino
- 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
- Cocoanut as Josserand
1938
- Port of Shadows as Zabel
- The Stream as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
- Beautiful Star as Léon
- Boys' School as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
- Mirages as Michel
- Mother Love as Michel Quercy
- The New Rich as Martinet
1937
- Bizarre, Bizarre as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Michel
- Boulot aviateur as Baron Gobèche
- Le Choc en retour as Laverdac
- La Bataille silencieuse as Sauvin
1936
- Let's Make a Dream as Un Invité (Prologue)
- Under Western Eyes as Lespara
- The Fleeing Dead as Achille Baluchet
- The Twins of Brighton as Labrosse
- Moutonnet as Frècheville
- Girls of Paris as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
1935
- Lovers and Thieves as Doizeau
- A Bum Deal as Boudu
- Adémaï au Moyen Âge as Lord Pickwickdam
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Perrot-Joly
1934
- L'Atalante as Père Jules
- Ladies Lake as Oscar Lyssenhop
- Le Bonheur as Noël Malpiaz
- Léopold le bien-aimé
1933
- Miquette and Her Mother as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
- High and Low as M. Bodeletz
1932
- Boudu Saved from Drowning as Priape Boudu
- Baleydier
1931
- La Chienne as Maurice Legrand
- Jean of the Moon as Jean de la Lune
- Baby's Laxative as Chouilloux
1930
- Illegitimate Child as Lorédan
1929
1928
- The Passion of Joan of Arc as Jean Lemaître
- The Sad Sack as Joseph Turlot
1925
- The Late Mathias Pascal as Jérôme Pomino
- The Vocation of André Carel as Gaston Lebeau