Michel Simon

Michel Simon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

09/04/1895

Day of Death

30/05/1975
(80) years old

Place of Birth

Geneva, Switzerland

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

Cast

2019

Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo

as Self (archive footage)

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

1972

Blanche

as Master

1970

The House

as Louis Compiegne

1970

Let's Have a Riot

as Cavazza

1968

The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

as Le vieux Jéricho

1967

The Two of Us

as Pépé

1966

Two Hours to Kill

as Locker Attendant

1964

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

as Le Grognard

1964

The Train

as Papa Boul

1963

Ecco

as Self

1962

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

as Jérôme Chambard

1962

Emile's Boat

as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Cent...

as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

1960

Pete the Tender

as Pierrot

1959

The Head

as Prof. Dr. Abel

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

At the Order of the Czar

as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954

Hungarian Rhapsody

as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954

The Anatomy of Love

as Padre Silvio

1954

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

as Auguste Bard

1953

Saadia

as Bou Rezza

1953

Femmes de Paris

as Professor Charles Buisson

1953

The Virtuous Scoundrel

as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lac...

1952

Hôtel des Invalides

as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

1952

The Road to Damascus

as Caïphe

1952

Crimson Curtain

as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy ...

1952

Full House

as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le ...

1952

The Girl with the Whip

as Le tuteur

1952

Mister Taxi

as Pierre Verger

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 t...

1947

Not Guilty

as Doctor Michel Ancelin

1947

The Crowned Fish Tavern

as Captain Palmer

1947

Panic

as Monsieur Hire

1946

A Friend Will Come Tonight

as Michel Lemaret

1943

Vautrin the Thief

as Vautrin

1941

The King's Jester

as Rigoletto

1941

Tosca

as Il barone Scarpia

1940

Comedy of Happiness

as Monsieur Jourdain

1940

The Musicians of the Sky

as Le capitaine Simon

1940

Paris - New-York

as Inspector Boucheron

1939

Cavalcade of Love

as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacour...

1939

Extenuating Circumstances

as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

1939

Fric-Frac

as Jo

1939

The Last Turning

as Nick Marino

1939

The End of the Day

as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

1939

Behind the Facade

as Picking, knife-throwing artist

1939

Deputy Eusèbe

as Eusèbe Bonbonneau

1939

Cocoanut

as Josserand

1938

Mother Love

as Michel Quercy

1938

The Stream

as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escar...

1938

Beautiful Star

as Léon

1938

The New Rich

as Martinet

1938

Port of Shadows

as Zabel

1938

Boys' School

as Lemel, le professeur de dessin

1938

Mirages

as Michel

1937

Bizarre, Bizarre

as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

1937

Boulot aviateur

as Baron Gobèche

1937

Le Choc en retour

as Laverdac

1936

Let's Make a Dream

as Un Invité (Prologue)

1936

Girls of Paris

as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

1936

The Twins of Brighton

as Labrosse

1936

Moutonnet

as Frècheville

1936

Under Western Eyes

as Lespara

1936

The Fleeing Dead

as Achille Baluchet

1935

Le Bébé de l'escadron

as Perrot-Joly

1935

Lovers and Thieves

as Doizeau

1935

A Bum Deal

as Boudu

1935

Adémaï au Moyen Âge

as Lord Pickwickdam

1934

Le Bonheur

as Noël Malpiaz

1934

Ladies Lake

as Oscar Lyssenhop

1934

L'Atalante

as Père Jules

1934

Miquette and Her Mother

as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tourné...

1933

High and Low

as M. Bodeletz

1932

Boudu Saved from Drowning

as Priape Boudu

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

1928

The Sad Sack

as Joseph Turlot

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc

as Jean Lemaître

1925

The Late Mathias Pascal

as Jérôme Pomino

1925

The Vocation of André Carel

as Gaston Lebeau

Crew

1941

The King's Jester

as Screenplay