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