Michel Simon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-04-09 (80 years old)

Deathday

1975-05-30

Place of Birth

Geneva, Switzerland

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).

Acting

1964

The Train

as Papa Boul

1970

The House

as Louis Compiegne

1975

1931

La Chienne

as Maurice Legrand

1962

Emile's Boat

as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

1947

Panic

as Monsieur Hire

1934

L'Atalante

as Père Jules

1939

The Last Turning

as Nick Marino

1967

The Two of Us

as Pépé

1933

High and Low

as M. Bodeletz

1939

Extenuating Circumstances

as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

1939

1939

Cocoanut

as Josserand

1938

Boys' School

as Lemel, le professeur de dessin

1943

1947

Not Guilty

as Doctor Michel Ancelin

1938

1925

The Late Mathias Pascal

as Jérôme Pomino

1951

Poison

as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

1953

Femmes de Paris

as Professor Charles Buisson

1957

Three Make a Pair

as Commissaire Bernard

1932

1952

Crimson Curtain

as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

1953

The Virtuous Scoundrel

as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

1928

The Sad Sack

as Joseph Turlot

1935

1936

Moutonnet

as Frècheville

1962

1937

Boulot aviateur

as Baron Gobèche

1939

Deputy Eusèbe

as Eusèbe Bonbonneau

1952

Mister Taxi

as Pierre Verger

1939

The End of the Day

as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

1954

1950

The Beauty of the Devil

as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

1937

Bizarre, Bizarre

as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

1952

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

1955

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

1953

Saadia

as Bou Rezza

1952

Hôtel des Invalides

as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

1934

Ladies Lake

as Oscar Lyssenhop

1931

Baby's Laxative

as Chouilloux

1938

Mother Love

as Michel Quercy

1939

Behind the Facade

as Picking, knife-throwing artist

1940

Comedy of Happiness

as Monsieur Jourdain

1938

The Stream

as Le comte Edouard de Bourgogne dit 'L'Escargot'

1972

Blanche

as Master

1947

The Crowned Fish Tavern

as Captain Palmer

1936

1964

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

as Le Grognard

1966

Two Hours to Kill

as Locker Attendant

1949

Fabiola

as Senator Fabius Severus

1925

1934

Le Bonheur

as Noël Malpiaz

1946

1936

The Fleeing Dead

as Achille Baluchet

1940

Paris - New-York

as Inspector Boucheron

1952

Full House

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

1958

A Certain Mr. Jo

as Joseph "Jo" Guardini

1977

Journey Through History

as Self (archive footage)

1935

1940

The Musicians of the Sky

as Le capitaine Simon

1941

The King's Jester

as Rigoletto

1956

La joyeuse prison

as Benoit, chief guard

1939

Cavalcade of Love

as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

1935

A Bum Deal

as Boudu

1970

2007

Arletty, Lady Paname

as Self (archive footage)

1954

Hungarian Rhapsody

as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

1928

1936

Let's Make a Dream

as Un Invité (Prologue)

1959

The Head

as Prof. Dr. Abel

1952

1938

The New Rich

as Martinet

1941

Tosca

as Il barone Scarpia

1954

The Anatomy of Love

as Padre Silvio

1956

Mémoires d'un flic

as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

1935

Adémaï au Moyen Âge

as Lord Pickwickdam

1938

Mirages

as Michel

2001

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

as Le père Jules (archive footage)

1936

1934

Miquette and Her Mother

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

1954

At the Order of the Czar

as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

1951

1968

1963

Ecco

as Self

1960

Pete the Tender

as Pierrot

1931

Jean of the Moon

as Jean de la Lune

1930

1938

1948

La Carcasse et le Tord-cou

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

1937

Production

1941

The King's Jester

as Screenplay

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