Michel Simon
Acting
Born April 9, 1895, 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).
Filmography
- 2022Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- 2021Morceaux de Cannes
- 2021René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu — Lui-même
- 2012The Bardot mystery
- 2001Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé — Le père Jules (archive footage)
- 1975The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan — Erotologist
- 1975The Red Ibis — Zizi
- 1972Blanche — Master
- 1972The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life — Attorney Zorn
- 1970Let's Have a Riot — Cavazza
- 1970The House — Louis Compiegne
- 1968The Marriage Came Tumbling Down — Le vieux Jéricho
- 1967La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire — Un récitant
- 1967The Two of Us — Pépé
- 1966Two Hours to Kill — Locker Attendant
- 1964Cyrano and d'Artagnan — Le Grognard
- 1964The Train — Papa Boul
- 1962Emile's Boat — Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
- 1962The Devil and the Ten Commandments — Jérôme Chambard
- 1960Austerlitz — Alboise
- 1960Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century — Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
- 1960Pete the Tender — Pierrot
- 1959The Head — Prof. Dr. Abel
- 1958A Certain Mr. Jo — Joseph "Jo" Guardini
- 1958It Happened in Broad Daylight — Jacquier
- 1957Three Make a Pair — Commissaire Bernard
- 1956La joyeuse prison — Benoit, chief guard
- 1956Mémoires d'un flic — Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
- 1955The Impossible Mr. Pipelet — Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
- 1954At the Order of the Czar — Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
- 1954Hungarian Rhapsody — General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
- 1954Strange Desire of Mr. Bard — Auguste Bard
- 1954The Anatomy of Love — Padre Silvio
- 1953Femmes de Paris — Professor Charles Buisson
- 1953Saadia — Bou Rezza
- 1953The Merchant of Venice — Shylock
- 1953The Virtuous Scoundrel — Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
- 1952Crimson Curtain — Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
- 1952Full House — Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
- 1952Hôtel des Invalides — Récitant / Narrator (voice)
- 1952Mister Taxi — Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
- 1952The Girl with the Whip — Le tuteur
- 1952The Road to Damascus — Caïphe
- 1951Poison — Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
- 1951The Two Truths — Cidoni
- 1950The Beauty of the Devil — Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
- 1949Fabiola — Senator Fabius Severus
- 1948La Carcasse et le Tord-cou — Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
- 1947Not Guilty — Doctor Michel Ancelin
- 1947Panic — Monsieur Hire
- 1947The Crowned Fish Tavern — Captain Palmer
- 1947The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean — Alcide Garonne
- 1946A Friend Will Come Tonight — Michel Lemaret
- 1943Shop Girls of Paris — Baudu
- 1943Vautrin the Thief — Vautrin
- 1942Girl of the Golden West — Butler
- 1941The King's Jester — Rigoletto, Screenplay
- 1941Tosca — Il barone Scarpia
- 1940Comedy of Happiness — Monsieur Jourdain
- 1940Paris - New-York — Inspector Boucheron
- 1940The Musicians of the Sky — Le capitaine Simon
- 1939Behind the Facade — Picking, knife-throwing artist
- 1939Cavalcade of Love — Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
- 1939Cocoanut — Josserand
- 1939Deputy Eusèbe — Eusèbe Bonbonneau
- 1939Extenuating Circumstances — Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
- 1939Fric-Frac — Jo
- 1939The End of the Day — Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
- 1939The Last Turning — Nick Marino
- 1938Beautiful Star — Léon
- 1938Boys' School — Lemel, le professeur de dessin
- 1938Mirages — Michel
- 1938Mother Love — Michel Quercy
- 1938Port of Shadows — Zabel
- 1938The New Rich — Martinet
- 1938The Stream — Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
- 1937Bizarre, Bizarre — Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- 1937Boulot aviateur — Baron Gobèche
- 1937La Bataille silencieuse — Sauvin
- 1937Le Choc en retour — Laverdac
- 1937Naples Under the Kiss of Fire — Michel
- 1936Girls of Paris — Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
- 1936Let's Make a Dream — Un Invité (Prologue)
- 1936Moutonnet — Frècheville
- 1936The Fleeing Dead — Achille Baluchet
- 1936The Twins of Brighton — Labrosse
- 1936Under Western Eyes — Lespara
- 1935A Bum Deal — Boudu
- 1935Adémaï au Moyen Âge — Lord Pickwickdam
- 1935Le Bébé de l'escadron — Perrot-Joly
- 1935Lovers and Thieves — Doizeau
- 1934L'Atalante — Père Jules
- 1934Ladies Lake — Oscar Lyssenhop
- 1934Le Bonheur — Noël Malpiaz
- 1934Léopold le bien-aimé
- 1933High and Low — M. Bodeletz
- 1933Miquette and Her Mother — Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
- 1932Baleydier
- 1932Boudu Saved from Drowning — Priape Boudu, Producer
- 1931Baby's Laxative — Chouilloux
- 1931Jean of the Moon — Clothaire dit Clo-Clo, Director
- 1931La Chienne — Maurice Legrand
- 1930Illegitimate Child — Lorédan
- 1929Pivoine
- 1928The Passion of Joan of Arc — Jean Lemaître
- 1928The Sad Sack — Joseph Turlot
- 1925The Late Mathias Pascal — Jérôme Pomino
- 1925The Vocation of André Carel — Gaston Lebeau
- 1924The Gallery of Monsters
- Les Deux Réalités — Cidoni
Appearances as themselves (16)
- 2019Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo — Self (archive footage)
- 2012Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo — Self
- 2007Arletty, Lady Paname — Self (archive footage)
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
- 1977Journey Through History — Self (archive footage)
- Spécial cinéma — Self (archive footage)
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self
- Samedi soir — Self
- 1967Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur — Self - Interviewee
- 1965Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry — Self - Interviewee
- Dim Dam Dom — Self
- 1964Michel Simon — Self
- 1963Ecco — Self
- Discorama — Self
- Cinépanorama — Self
- Reflets de Cannes — Self