Michel Simon

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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).

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Geneva, Switzerland

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

09 April 1895, 130 years old

Known For

The Passion of Joan of Arc

L'Atalante

The Train

Port of Shadows

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Boudu Saved from Drowning

La Chienne

The Two of Us

Panic

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu

Lui-même

2021

Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo

Self (archive footage)

2019

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

Self

2012

Arletty, Lady Paname

Self (archive footage)

2007

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

Le père Jules (archive footage)

2001

Journey Through History

Self (archive footage)

1977

The Red Ibis

Zizi

1975

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

Erotologist

1975

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

Attorney Zorn

1972

Blanche

Master

1972

The House

Louis Compiegne

1970

Let's Have a Riot

Cavazza

1970

The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

Le vieux Jéricho

1968

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

The Two of Us

Pépé

1967

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

Self - Interviewee

1967

Two Hours to Kill

Locker Attendant

1966

Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry

Self - Interviewee

1965

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

Le Grognard

1964

The Train

Papa Boul

1964

Ecco

Self

1963

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Jérôme Chambard

1962

Emile's Boat

Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

1962

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

1960

Pete the Tender

Pierrot

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz

Alboise

1960

The Head

Prof. Dr. Abel

1959

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Jacquier

1958

A Certain Mr. Jo

Joseph "Jo" Guardini

1958

Three Make a Pair

Commissaire Bernard

1957

La joyeuse prison

Benoit, chief guard

1956

Mémoires d'un flic

Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

1956

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

1955

At the Order of the Czar

Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954

Hungarian Rhapsody

General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954

The Anatomy of Love

Padre Silvio

1954

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

Auguste Bard

1954

Saadia

Bou Rezza

1953

The Merchant of Venice

Shylock

1953

Femmes de Paris

Professor Charles Buisson

1953

The Virtuous Scoundrel

Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

1953

Hôtel des Invalides

Récitant / Narrator (voice)

1952

The Road to Damascus

Caïphe

1952

Crimson Curtain

Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

1952

Full House

Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")

1952

The Girl with the Whip

Le tuteur

1952

Mister Taxi

Pierre Verger

1952

Poison

Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

1951

The Two Truths

Cidoni

1951

The Beauty of the Devil

Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

1950

Fabiola

Senator Fabius Severus

1949

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou

Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'

1948

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean

Alcide Garonne

1947

Not Guilty

Doctor Michel Ancelin

1947

The Crowned Fish Tavern

Captain Palmer

1947

Panic

Monsieur Hire

1947

A Friend Will Come Tonight

Michel Lemaret

1946

Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin

1943

Shop Girls of Paris

Baudu

1943

Girl of the Golden West

Butler

1942

The King's Jester

Rigoletto

1941

Tosca

Il barone Scarpia

1941

Comedy of Happiness

Monsieur Jourdain

1940

The Musicians of the Sky

Le capitaine Simon

1940

Paris - New-York

Inspector Boucheron

1940

Cavalcade of Love

Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

1939

Extenuating Circumstances

Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

1939

Fric-Frac

1939

The Last Turning

Nick Marino

1939

The End of the Day

Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

1939

Behind the Facade

Picking, knife-throwing artist

1939

Deputy Eusèbe

Eusèbe Bonbonneau

1939

Cocoanut

Josserand

1939

Mother Love

Michel Quercy

1938

The Stream

Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'

1938

Beautiful Star

Léon

1938

The New Rich

Martinet

1938

Port of Shadows

Zabel

1938

Boys' School

Lemel, le professeur de dessin

1938

Mirages

Michel

1938

Naples Under the Kiss of Fire

Michel

1937

Bizarre, Bizarre

Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

1937

La Bataille silencieuse

Sauvin

1937

Boulot aviateur

Baron Gobèche

1937

Le Choc en retour

Laverdac

1937

Let's Make a Dream

Un Invité (Prologue)

1936

Girls of Paris

Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

1936

The Twins of Brighton

Labrosse

1936

Moutonnet

Frècheville

1936

Under Western Eyes

Lespara

1936

The Fleeing Dead

Achille Baluchet

1936

Le Bébé de l'escadron

Perrot-Joly

1935

Lovers and Thieves

Doizeau

1935

A Bum Deal

Boudu

1935

Adémaï au Moyen Âge

Lord Pickwickdam

1935

Le Bonheur

Noël Malpiaz

1934

Ladies Lake

Oscar Lyssenhop

1934

L'Atalante

Père Jules

1934

Miquette and Her Mother

Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette

1934

Léopold le bien-aimé

1934

High and Low

M. Bodeletz

1933

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Priape Boudu

1932

Baleydier

1932

La Chienne

Maurice Legrand

1931

Baby's Laxative

Chouilloux

1931

Jean of the Moon

Jean de la Lune

1931

Illegitimate Child

Lorédan

1930

Pivoine

1929

The Sad Sack

Joseph Turlot

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Jean Lemaître

1928

The Late Mathias Pascal

Jérôme Pomino

1925

The Vocation of André Carel

Gaston Lebeau

1925

Les Deux Réalités

Cidoni

Unknown

The Gallery of Monsters

1924