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 Butcher, the Star and the Orphan as Erotologist
- The Red Ibis as Zizi
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life as Attorney Zorn
- Blanche as Master
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
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
- Pete the Tender as Pierrot
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
- Strange Desire of Mr. Bard as Auguste Bard
- The Anatomy of Love as Padre Silvio
- Hungarian Rhapsody as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
- At the Order of the Czar as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
1953
- The Virtuous Scoundrel as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
- The Merchant of Venice as Shylock
- Saadia as Bou Rezza
- Femmes de Paris as Professor Charles Buisson
1952
- The Girl with the Whip as Le tuteur
- The Road to Damascus as Caïphe
- Full House as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
- Crimson Curtain as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
- 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
- The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Alcide Garonne
- Panic as Monsieur Hire
- Not Guilty as Doctor Michel Ancelin
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
- The Musicians of the Sky as Le capitaine Simon
- Paris - New-York as Inspector Boucheron
1939
- Fric-Frac as Jo
- Extenuating Circumstances as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
- The End of the Day as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
- Deputy Eusèbe as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
- The Last Turning as Nick Marino
- Cavalcade of Love as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
- Behind the Facade as Picking, knife-throwing artist
- Cocoanut as Josserand
1938
- Port of Shadows as Zabel
- The Stream as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
- Beautiful Star as Léon
- Mother Love as Michel Quercy
- Boys' School as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
- Mirages as Michel
- The New Rich as Martinet
1937
- Bizarre, Bizarre as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- Le Choc en retour as Laverdac
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Michel
- Boulot aviateur as Baron Gobèche
- La Bataille silencieuse as Sauvin
1936
- Under Western Eyes as Lespara
- The Fleeing Dead as Achille Baluchet
- Girls of Paris as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
- Let's Make a Dream as Un Invité (Prologue)
- The Twins of Brighton as Labrosse
- Moutonnet as Frècheville
1935
- Adémaï au Moyen Âge as Lord Pickwickdam
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Perrot-Joly
- Lovers and Thieves as Doizeau
- A Bum Deal as Boudu
1934
- L'Atalante as Père Jules
- Le Bonheur as Noël Malpiaz
- Léopold le bien-aimé
- Ladies Lake as Oscar Lyssenhop
1933
- High and Low as M. Bodeletz
- Miquette and Her Mother as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
1932
- Boudu Saved from Drowning as Priape Boudu
- Baleydier
1931
- Jean of the Moon as Clothaire dit Clo-Clo
- La Chienne as Maurice Legrand
- 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