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).

Known For

Spécial cinéma

Le Grand Échiquier

Discorama

Cinépanorama

Reflets de Cannes

Dim Dam Dom

The Train

The Passion of Joan of Arc

All Movies (118)

• Belmondo: The Incorrigible2022
• Morceaux de Cannes2021
• René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu2021 · as Lui-même
• Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo2012 · as Self
• The Bardot mystery2012
• Arletty, Lady Paname2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé2001 · as Le père Jules (archive footage)
• Journey Through History1977 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Red Ibis1975 · as Zizi
• The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan1975 · as Erotologist
• The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life1972 · as Attorney Zorn
• Blanche1972 · as Master
• The House1970 · as Louis Compiegne
• Let's Have a Riot1970 · as Cavazza
• The Marriage Came Tumbling Down1968 · as Le vieux Jéricho
• La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire1967
• The Two of Us1967 · as Pépé
• Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur1967 · as Self - Interviewee
• Two Hours to Kill1966 · as Locker Attendant
• Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry1965 · as Self - Interviewee
• Cyrano and d'Artagnan1964 · as Le Grognard
• The Train1964 · as Papa Boul
• Michel Simon1964 · as Self
• Ecco1963 · as Self
• The Devil and the Ten Commandments1962 · as Jérôme Chambard
• Emile's Boat1962 · as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
• Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century1960 · as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
• Pete the Tender1960 · as Pierrot
• The Battle of Austerlitz1960 · as Alboise
• The Head1959 · as Prof. Dr. Abel
• It Happened in Broad Daylight1958 · as Jacquier
• A Certain Mr. Jo1958 · as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
• Three Make a Pair1957 · as Commissaire Bernard
• La joyeuse prison1956 · as Benoit, chief guard
• Mémoires d'un flic1956 · as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
• The Impossible Mr. Pipelet1955 · as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
• At the Order of the Czar1954 · as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
• Hungarian Rhapsody1954 · as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
• The Anatomy of Love1954 · as Padre Silvio
• Strange Desire of Mr. Bard1954 · as Auguste Bard
• Saadia1953 · as Bou Rezza
• The Merchant of Venice1953 · as Shylock
• Femmes de Paris1953 · as Professor Charles Buisson
• The Virtuous Scoundrel1953 · as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
• Hôtel des Invalides1952 · as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
• The Road to Damascus1952 · as Caïphe
• Crimson Curtain1952 · as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
• Full House1952 · as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
• The Girl with the Whip1952 · as Le tuteur
• Mister Taxi1952 · as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
• Poison1951 · as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
• The Two Truths1951 · as Cidoni
• The Beauty of the Devil1950 · as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
• Fabiola1949 · as Senator Fabius Severus
• La Carcasse et le Tord-cou1948 · as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
• The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean1947 · as Alcide Garonne
• Not Guilty1947 · as Doctor Michel Ancelin
• The Crowned Fish Tavern1947 · as Captain Palmer
• Panic1947 · as Monsieur Hire
• A Friend Will Come Tonight1946 · as Michel Lemaret
• Vautrin the Thief1943 · as Vautrin
• Shop Girls of Paris1943 · as Baudu
• Girl of the Golden West1942 · as Butler
• The King's Jester1941 · as Rigoletto
• Tosca1941 · as Il barone Scarpia
• Comedy of Happiness1940 · as Monsieur Jourdain
• The Musicians of the Sky1940 · as Le capitaine Simon
• Paris - New-York1940 · as Inspector Boucheron
• Cavalcade of Love1939 · as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
• Extenuating Circumstances1939 · as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
• Fric-Frac1939 · as Jo
• The Last Turning1939 · as Nick Marino
• The End of the Day1939 · as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
• Behind the Facade1939 · as Picking, knife-throwing artist
• Deputy Eusèbe1939 · as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
• Cocoanut1939 · as Josserand
• Mother Love1938 · as Michel Quercy
• The Stream1938 · as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
• Beautiful Star1938 · as Léon
• The New Rich1938 · as Martinet
• Port of Shadows1938 · as Zabel
• Boys' School1938 · as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
• Mirages1938 · as Michel
• Naples Under the Kiss of Fire1937 · as Michel
• Bizarre, Bizarre1937 · as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
• La Bataille silencieuse1937 · as Sauvin
• Boulot aviateur1937 · as Baron Gobèche
• Le Choc en retour1937 · as Laverdac
• Let's Make a Dream1936 · as Un Invité (Prologue)
• Girls of Paris1936 · as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
• The Twins of Brighton1936 · as Labrosse
• Moutonnet1936 · as Frècheville
• Under Western Eyes1936 · as Lespara
• The Fleeing Dead1936 · as Achille Baluchet
• Le Bébé de l'escadron1935 · as Perrot-Joly
• Lovers and Thieves1935 · as Doizeau
• A Bum Deal1935 · as Boudu
• Adémaï au Moyen Âge1935 · as Lord Pickwickdam
• Le Bonheur1934 · as Noël Malpiaz
• Ladies Lake1934 · as Oscar Lyssenhop
• L'Atalante1934 · as Père Jules
• Léopold le bien-aimé1934
• High and Low1933 · as M. Bodeletz
• Miquette and Her Mother1933 · as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
• Boudu Saved from Drowning1932 · as Priape Boudu
• Baleydier1932
• La Chienne1931 · as Maurice Legrand
• Baby's Laxative1931 · as Chouilloux
• Jean of the Moon1931 · as Jean de la Lune
• Illegitimate Child1930 · as Lorédan
• Pivoine1929
• The Sad Sack1928 · as Joseph Turlot
• The Passion of Joan of Arc1928 · as Jean Lemaître
• The Late Mathias Pascal1925 · as Jérôme Pomino
• The Vocation of André Carel1925 · as Gaston Lebeau
• The Gallery of Monsters1924
• Les Deux Réalités— · as Cidoni

All TV Shows (8)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978 · as Self (archive footage)
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self (archive footage)
• Le Grand Échiquier1972 · as Self
• Samedi soir1971 · as Self
• Dim Dam Dom1965 · as Self
• Discorama1959 · as Self
• Cinépanorama1956 · as Self
• Reflets de Cannes1954 · as Self