Michel Simon
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 9, 1895
- Died
- May 30, 1975
- Birthplace
- 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
- Les Deux Réalités
Les Deux Réalités TBA
as Cidoni
Belmondo: The Incorrigible 2022
Actor
Morceaux de Cannes 2021
Actor
- René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu 2021
as Lui-même
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo 2019
as Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo 2012
as Self
The Bardot mystery 2012
Actor
Arletty, Lady Paname 2007
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé 2001
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
Journey Through History 1977
as Self (archive footage)
The Red Ibis 1975
as Zizi
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan 1975
as Erotologist
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life 1972
as Attorney Zorn
Blanche 1972
as Master
The House 1970
as Louis Compiegne
Let's Have a Riot 1970
as Cavazza
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down 1968
as Le vieux Jéricho
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire 1967
as Un récitant
The Two of Us 1967
as Pépé
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur 1967
as Self - Interviewee
Two Hours to Kill 1966
as Locker Attendant
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry 1965
as Self - Interviewee
Cyrano and d'Artagnan 1964
as Le Grognard
The Train 1964
as Papa Boul
Michel Simon 1964
as Self
Ecco 1963
as Self
The Devil and the Ten Commandments 1962
as Jérôme Chambard
Emile's Boat 1962
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century 1960
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
Pete the Tender 1960
as Pierrot
Austerlitz 1960
as Alboise
The Head 1959
as Prof. Dr. Abel
It Happened in Broad Daylight 1958
as Jacquier
A Certain Mr. Jo 1958
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
Three Make a Pair 1957
as Commissaire Bernard
La joyeuse prison 1956
as Benoit, chief guard
Mémoires d'un flic 1956
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet 1955
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
At the Order of the Czar 1954
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
Hungarian Rhapsody 1954
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
The Anatomy of Love 1954
as Padre Silvio
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard 1954
as Auguste Bard
Saadia 1953
as Bou Rezza
The Merchant of Venice 1953
as Shylock
Femmes de Paris 1953
as Professor Charles Buisson
The Virtuous Scoundrel 1953
as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
Hôtel des Invalides 1952
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
The Road to Damascus 1952
as Caïphe
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")
The Girl with the Whip 1952
as Le tuteur
Mister Taxi 1952
as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
The Two Truths 1951
as Cidoni
Poison 1951
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
The Beauty of the Devil 1950
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
Fabiola 1949
as Senator Fabius Severus
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou 1948
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean 1947
as Alcide Garonne
Not Guilty 1947
as Doctor Michel Ancelin
The Crowned Fish Tavern 1947
as Captain Palmer
Panique 1947
as Monsieur Hire
A Friend Will Come Tonight 1946
as Michel Lemaret
Vautrin the Thief 1943
as Vautrin
Shop Girls of Paris 1943
as Baudu
Girl of the Golden West 1942
as Butler
The King's Jester 1941
as Rigoletto, Screenplay
Tosca 1941
as Il barone Scarpia
Comedy of Happiness 1940
as Monsieur Jourdain
The Musicians of the Sky 1940
as Le capitaine Simon
Paris - New-York 1940
as Inspector Boucheron
Cavalcade of Love 1939
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
Extenuating Circumstances 1939
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
Fric-Frac 1939
as Jo
The Last Turning 1939
as Nick Marino
The End of the Day 1939
as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
Behind the Facade 1939
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
Deputy Eusèbe 1939
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
Cocoanut 1939
as Josserand
Mother Love 1938
as Michel Quercy
The Stream 1938
as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
Beautiful Star 1938
as Léon
The New Rich 1938
as Martinet
Port of Shadows 1938
as Zabel
Boys' School 1938
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
Mirages 1938
as Michel
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire 1937
as Michel
Bizarre, Bizarre 1937
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
La Bataille silencieuse 1937
as Sauvin
Boulot aviateur 1937
as Baron Gobèche
Le Choc en retour 1937
as Laverdac
Let's Make a Dream 1936
as Un Invité (Prologue)
Girls of Paris 1936
as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
The Twins of Brighton 1936
as Labrosse
Moutonnet 1936
as Frècheville
Under Western Eyes 1936
as Lespara
The Fleeing Dead 1936
as Achille Baluchet
Le Bébé de l'escadron 1935
as Perrot-Joly
Lovers and Thieves 1935
as Doizeau
- Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Adémaï au Moyen Âge 1935
as Lord Pickwickdam
- A Bum Deal
A Bum Deal 1935
as Boudu
Le Bonheur 1934
as Noël Malpiaz
Ladies Lake 1934
as Oscar Lyssenhop
L'Atalante 1934
as Père Jules
Léopold le bien-aimé 1934
Actor
High and Low 1933
as M. Bodeletz
Miquette and Her Mother 1933
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932
as Priape Boudu, Producer
- Baleydier
Baleydier 1932
Actor
La Chienne 1931
as Maurice Legrand
Baby's Laxative 1931
as Chouilloux
Jean of the Moon 1931
as Clothaire dit Clo-Clo, Director
Illegitimate Child 1930
as Lorédan
Pivoine 1929
Actor
The Sad Sack 1928
as Joseph Turlot
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
as Jean Lemaître
The Late Mathias Pascal 1925
as Jérôme Pomino
The Vocation of André Carel 1925
as Gaston Lebeau
The Gallery of Monsters 1924
Actor
Credits from TMDB.