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
- 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
- La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
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
1963
- Ecco as Self
1962
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Jérôme Chambard
- Emile's Boat as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
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
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
- At the Order of the Czar as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
- Hungarian Rhapsody as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
1953
- Saadia as Bou Rezza
- Femmes de Paris as Professor Charles Buisson
- The Virtuous Scoundrel as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
- The Merchant of Venice as Shylock
1952
- Crimson Curtain as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
- The Road to Damascus as Caïphe
- Mister Taxi as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
- Full House as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
- The Girl with the Whip as Le tuteur
- Hôtel des Invalides as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
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
- The Crowned Fish Tavern as Captain Palmer
- The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Alcide Garonne
- Not Guilty as Doctor Michel Ancelin
1946
- A Friend Will Come Tonight as Michel Lemaret
1943
- Shop Girls of Paris as Baudu
- Vautrin the Thief as Vautrin
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
- The Last Turning as Nick Marino
- The End of the Day as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
- Extenuating Circumstances as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
- Cocoanut as Josserand
- Deputy Eusèbe as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
- Cavalcade of Love as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
- Behind the Facade as Picking, knife-throwing artist
1938
- Port of Shadows as Zabel
- Boys' School as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
- The Stream as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
- Mother Love as Michel Quercy
- Mirages as Michel
- The New Rich as Martinet
- Beautiful Star as Léon
1937
- Bizarre, Bizarre as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- Boulot aviateur as Baron Gobèche
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Michel
- Le Choc en retour as Laverdac
- La Bataille silencieuse as Sauvin
1936
- Girls of Paris as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
- Let's Make a Dream as Un Invité (Prologue)
- Moutonnet as Frècheville
- Under Western Eyes as Lespara
- The Twins of Brighton as Labrosse
- The Fleeing Dead as Achille Baluchet
1935
- Lovers and Thieves as Doizeau
- Le Bébé de l'escadron as Perrot-Joly
- Adémaï au Moyen Âge as Lord Pickwickdam
- A Bum Deal as Boudu
1934
- L'Atalante as Père Jules
- Ladies Lake as Oscar Lyssenhop
- Le Bonheur as Noël Malpiaz
- Léopold le bien-aimé
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
- 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
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