Michel Simon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-04-09
Day of Death
1975-05-30 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Geneva, Switzerland
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).
Acting
Les Deux Réalités
as Cidoni
(2021)
(2012)
(2007)
Arletty, Lady Paname
as Self (archive footage)
(2001)
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
(1977)
Journey Through History
as Self (archive footage)
(1975)
The Red Ibis
as Zizi
(1975)
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Erotologist
(1972)
Blanche
as Master
(1972)
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Attorney Zorn
(1970)
Let's Have a Riot
as Cavazza
(1970)
The House
as Louis Compiegne
(1968)
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
as Le vieux Jéricho
(1967)
The Two of Us
as Pépé
(1967)
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
(1964)
The Train
as Papa Boul
(1964)
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
as Le Grognard
(1963)
Ecco
as Self
(1962)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Jérôme Chambard
(1962)
Emile's Boat
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
(1960)
The Battle of Austerlitz
as Alboise
(1960)
Pete the Tender
as Pierrot
(1960)
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
(1959)
The Head
as Prof. Dr. Abel
(1958)
It Happened in Broad Daylight
as Jacquier
(1958)
A Certain Mr. Jo
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
(1957)
Three Make a Pair
as Commissaire Bernard
(1956)
La joyeuse prison
as Benoit, chief guard
(1956)
Mémoires d'un flic
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
(1955)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
(1954)
The Anatomy of Love
as Padre Silvio
(1954)
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as Auguste Bard
(1954)
At the Order of the Czar
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1954)
Hungarian Rhapsody
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1953)
Saadia
as Bou Rezza
(1953)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
(1953)
The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
(1953)
Femmes de Paris
as Professor Charles Buisson
(1952)
Crimson Curtain
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
(1952)
Hôtel des Invalides
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
(1952)
Full House
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
(1952)
Mister Taxi
as Pierre Verger
(1952)
The Girl with the Whip
as Le tuteur
(1952)
The Road to Damascus
as Caïphe
(1951)
Poison
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
(1951)
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
(1947)
Not Guilty
as Doctor Michel Ancelin
(1947)
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as Alcide Garonne
(1947)
The Crowned Fish Tavern
as Captain Palmer
(1946)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Michel Lemaret
(1943)
Shop Girls of Paris
as Baudu
(1943)
Vautrin the Thief
as Vautrin
(1942)
Girl of the Golden West
as Butler
(1941)
The King's Jester
as Rigoletto
(1941)
Tosca
as Il barone Scarpia
(1940)
Paris - New-York
as Inspector Boucheron
(1940)
Comedy of Happiness
as Monsieur Jourdain
(1940)
The Musicians of the Sky
as Le capitaine Simon
(1939)
Fric-Frac
as Jo
(1939)
The End of the Day
as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
(1939)
The Last Turning
as Nick Marino
(1939)
Behind the Facade
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
(1939)
Cavalcade of Love
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
(1939)
Extenuating Circumstances
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
(1939)
Cocoanut
as Josserand
(1939)
Deputy Eusèbe
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
(1938)
Port of Shadows
as Zabel
(1938)
Boys' School
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
(1938)
The Stream
as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne
(1938)
The New Rich
as Martinet
(1938)
Mother Love
as Michel Quercy
(1938)
Beautiful Star
as Léon
(1938)
Mirages
as Michel
(1937)
Bizarre, Bizarre
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
(1937)
Le Choc en retour
as Laverdac
(1937)
La Bataille silencieuse
as Sauvin
(1937)
Boulot aviateur
as Baron Gobèche
(1937)
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as Michel
(1936)
Under Western Eyes
as Lespara
(1936)
Let's Make a Dream
as Un Invité (Prologue)
(1936)
The Fleeing Dead
as Achille Baluchet
(1936)
The Twins of Brighton
as Labrosse
(1936)
(1936)
Moutonnet
as Frècheville
(1935)
Lovers and Thieves
as Doizeau
(1935)
Le Bébé de l'escadron
as Perrot-Joly
(1935)
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
as Lord Pickwickdam
(1935)
A Bum Deal
as Boudu
(1934)
L'Atalante
as Père Jules
(1934)
Le Bonheur
as Noël Malpiaz
(1934)
Miquette and Her Mother
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
(1934)
Ladies Lake
as Oscar Lyssenhop
(1934)
(1933)
High and Low
as M. Bodeletz
(1932)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
as Priape Boudu
(1932)
(1931)
La Chienne
as Maurice Legrand
(1931)
Baby's Laxative
as Chouilloux
(1931)
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
(1928)
The Sad Sack
as Joseph Turlot
(1925)
The Late Mathias Pascal
as Jérôme Pomino
(1925)
The Vocation of André Carel
as Gaston Lebeau
(1924)
Crew
(1941)
The King's Jester
Screenplay
(1932)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Producer