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