Michel Simon

Apr 09, 1895 - May 30, 1975 (80 years old) in Geneva, Switzerland

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).

Known For

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La Chienne

Maurice Legrand

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Le Bonheur

Noël Malpiaz

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Tosca

Il barone Scarpia

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Fabiola

Senator Fabius Severus

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L'Atalante

Père Jules

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Crimson Curtain

Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

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Blanche

Master

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Beautiful Star

Léon

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Panic

Monsieur Hire

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Mister Taxi

Pierre Verger

Credits

Les Deux Réalités Future

Cidoni

★ 6.3
René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu 2021

Lui-même

★ NR
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo 2012

Self

★ 7.3
Arletty, Lady Paname 2007

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé 2001

Le père Jules (archive footage)

★ 7
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma 1978

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Journey Through History 1977

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Red Ibis 1975

Zizi

★ 5.4
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan 1975

Erotologist

★ 1
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life 1972

Attorney Zorn

★ 7.2
Blanche 1972

Master

★ 6
Le Grand Échiquier 1972

Self

★ 8
The House 1970

Louis Compiegne

★ NR
Let's Have a Riot 1970

Cavazza

★ 6.9
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down 1968

Le vieux Jéricho

★ 5.9
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire 1967

★ NR
The Two of Us 1967

Pépé

★ 7.6
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur 1967

Self - Interviewee

★ 9
Two Hours to Kill 1966

Locker Attendant

★ 6.3
Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry 1965

Self - Interviewee

★ NR
Dim Dam Dom 1965

Self

★ 6
Cyrano and d'Artagnan 1964

Le Grognard

★ 5.8
The Train 1964

Papa Boul

★ 7.5
Ecco 1963

Self

★ 4.3
The Devil and the Ten Commandments 1962

Jérôme Chambard

★ 5.5
Emile's Boat 1962

Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

★ 6.4
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century 1960

Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

★ 6.2
Pete the Tender 1960

Pierrot

★ 5.4
The Battle of Austerlitz 1960

Alboise

★ 6.6
The Head 1959

Prof. Dr. Abel

★ 5
It Happened in Broad Daylight 1958

Jacquier

★ 7.4
A Certain Mr. Jo 1958

Joseph "Jo" Guardini

★ 1
Three Make a Pair 1957

Commissaire Bernard

★ 4.8
La joyeuse prison 1956

Benoit, chief guard

★ NR
Mémoires d'un flic 1956

Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

★ NR
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet 1955

Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

★ 5.5
At the Order of the Czar 1954

Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

★ NR
Hungarian Rhapsody 1954

General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

★ NR
Reflets de Cannes 1954

Self

★ 2
The Anatomy of Love 1954

Padre Silvio

★ 6.4
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard 1954

Auguste Bard

★ 6
Saadia 1953

Bou Rezza

★ 5.8
The Merchant of Venice 1953

Shylock

★ 5
Femmes de Paris 1953

Professor Charles Buisson

★ 6.5
The Virtuous Scoundrel 1953

Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

★ 5.9
Hôtel des Invalides 1952

Récitant / Narrator (voice)

★ 5.8
The Road to Damascus 1952

Caïphe

★ NR
Crimson Curtain 1952

Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

★ 6.2
Full House 1952

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

★ 6.6
The Girl with the Whip 1952

Le tuteur

★ NR
Mister Taxi 1952

Pierre Verger

★ 6.2
Poison 1951

Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

★ 7.2
The Two Truths 1951

Cidoni

★ 9
The Beauty of the Devil 1950

Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

★ 7.2
Fabiola 1949

Senator Fabius Severus

★ 5.4
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou 1948

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

★ NR
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean 1947

Alcide Garonne

★ 6.6
Not Guilty 1947

Doctor Michel Ancelin

★ 7.5
The Crowned Fish Tavern 1947

Captain Palmer

★ 5.6
Panic 1947

Monsieur Hire

★ 7.3
A Friend Will Come Tonight 1946

Michel Lemaret

★ 5.5
Vautrin the Thief 1943

Vautrin

★ 7.6
Shop Girls of Paris 1943

Baudu

★ 6.8
Girl of the Golden West 1942

Butler

★ 6
The King's Jester 1941

Rigoletto

★ NR
Tosca 1941

Il barone Scarpia

★ 5.3
Comedy of Happiness 1940

Monsieur Jourdain

★ 6.4
The Musicians of the Sky 1940

Le capitaine Simon

★ 6.7
Paris - New-York 1940

Inspector Boucheron

★ 7
Cavalcade of Love 1939

Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

★ 5.2
Extenuating Circumstances 1939

Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

★ 6.6
Fric-Frac 1939

Jo

★ 6
The Last Turning 1939

Nick Marino

★ 6.3
The End of the Day 1939

Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

★ 6.6
Behind the Facade 1939

Picking, knife-throwing artist

★ 7.8
Deputy Eusèbe 1939

Eusèbe Bonbonneau

★ NR
Cocoanut 1939

Josserand

★ 6.5
Mother Love 1938

Michel Quercy

★ 6.2
The Stream 1938

Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'

★ 6.7
Beautiful Star 1938

Léon

★ 8
The New Rich 1938

Martinet

★ 7
Port of Shadows 1938

Zabel

★ 7.4
Boys' School 1938

Lemel, le professeur de dessin

★ 7.4
Mirages 1938

Michel

★ 7
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire 1937

Michel

★ 4.3
Bizarre, Bizarre 1937

Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

★ 6.9
La Bataille silencieuse 1937

Sauvin

★ NR
Boulot aviateur 1937

Baron Gobèche

★ NR
Le Choc en retour 1937

Laverdac

★ NR
Let's Make a Dream 1936

Un Invité (Prologue)

★ 6.7
Girls of Paris 1936

Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

★ 4
The Twins of Brighton 1936

Labrosse

★ 7
Moutonnet 1936

Frècheville

★ NR
Under Western Eyes 1936

Lespara

★ 6.2
The Fleeing Dead 1936

Achille Baluchet

★ 7.1
Le Bébé de l'escadron 1935

Perrot-Joly

★ NR
Lovers and Thieves 1935

Doizeau

★ NR
A Bum Deal 1935

Boudu

★ NR
Adémaï au Moyen Âge 1935

Lord Pickwickdam

★ NR
Le Bonheur 1934

Noël Malpiaz

★ 6.6
Ladies Lake 1934

Oscar Lyssenhop

★ 3.6
L'Atalante 1934

Père Jules

★ 7.5
Miquette and Her Mother 1934

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

★ 7
Léopold le bien-aimé 1934

★ NR
High and Low 1933

M. Bodeletz

★ 5
Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932

Priape Boudu

★ 7
Baleydier 1932

★ NR
La Chienne 1931

Maurice Legrand

★ 7.3
Baby's Laxative 1931

Chouilloux

★ 5.7
Jean of the Moon 1931

Jean de la Lune

★ 6
Illegitimate Child 1930

Lorédan

★ 6
Pivoine 1929

★ 6.2
The Sad Sack 1928

Joseph Turlot

★ 6.5
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928

Jean Lemaître

★ 8
The Late Mathias Pascal 1925

Jérôme Pomino

★ 7
The Vocation of André Carel 1925

Gaston Lebeau

★ 5.3
The Gallery of Monsters 1924

★ 7.5