Acting
Michel Simon
Born 1895-04-09
Geneva, Switzerland
Department: Acting
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
Prominent works featuring Michel Simon
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
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L'Atalante
1934
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The Train
1964
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Port of Shadows
1938
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Spécial cinéma
1974
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Le Grand Échiquier
1972
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932
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La Chienne
1931
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Discorama
1959
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (129 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Belmondo: The Incorrigible | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2022 |
 | Morceaux de Cannes | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2021 |
| René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu | Lui-même | Movie | 2021 | |
 | Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2019 |
 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo | Self | Movie | 2012 |
 | The Bardot mystery | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2012 |
 | Arletty, Lady Paname | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2007 |
 | Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé | Le père Jules (archive footage) | Movie | 2001 |
| Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) | TV Series | 1978 | |
 | Journey Through History | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 1977 |
 | The Red Ibis | Zizi | Movie | 1975 |
 | The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan | Erotologist | Movie | 1975 |
 | Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) | TV Series | 1974 |
 | The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Attorney Zorn | Movie | 1972 |
 | Blanche | Master | Movie | 1972 |
 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV Series | 1972 |
| Samedi soir | Self | TV Series | 1971 | |
 | The House | Louis Compiegne | Movie | 1970 |
 | Let's Have a Riot | Cavazza | Movie | 1970 |
 | The Marriage Came Tumbling Down | Le vieux Jéricho | Movie | 1968 |
 | La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire | Un récitant | Movie | 1967 |
 | The Two of Us | Pépé | Movie | 1967 |
 | Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur | Self - Interviewee | Movie | 1967 |
 | Two Hours to Kill | Locker Attendant | Movie | 1966 |
| Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry | Self - Interviewee | Movie | 1965 | |
 | Dim Dam Dom | Self | TV Series | 1965 |
 | Cyrano and d'Artagnan | Le Grognard | Movie | 1964 |
 | The Train | Papa Boul | Movie | 1964 |
 | Michel Simon | Self | Movie | 1964 |
 | Ecco | Self | Movie | 1963 |
 | The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Jérôme Chambard | Movie | 1962 |
 | Emile's Boat | Charles-Edmond Larmentiel | Movie | 1962 |
 | Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve | Movie | 1960 |
 | Pete the Tender | Pierrot | Movie | 1960 |
 | Austerlitz | Alboise | Movie | 1960 |
 | The Head | Prof. Dr. Abel | Movie | 1959 |
 | Discorama | Self | TV Series | 1959 |
 | It Happened in Broad Daylight | Jacquier | Movie | 1958 |
 | A Certain Mr. Jo | Joseph "Jo" Guardini | Movie | 1958 |
 | Three Make a Pair | Commissaire Bernard | Movie | 1957 |
 | La joyeuse prison | Benoit, chief guard | Movie | 1956 |
 | Cinépanorama | Self | TV Series | 1956 |
 | Mémoires d'un flic | Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique | Movie | 1956 |
 | The Impossible Mr. Pipelet | Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble | Movie | 1955 |
 | At the Order of the Czar | Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein | Movie | 1954 |
 | Hungarian Rhapsody | General von Sayn-Wittgenstein | Movie | 1954 |
 | Reflets de Cannes | Self | TV Series | 1954 |
 | The Anatomy of Love | Padre Silvio | Movie | 1954 |
 | Strange Desire of Mr. Bard | Auguste Bard | Movie | 1954 |
 | Saadia | Bou Rezza | Movie | 1953 |
 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | Movie | 1953 |
 | Femmes de Paris | Professor Charles Buisson | Movie | 1953 |
 | The Virtuous Scoundrel | Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste | Movie | 1953 |
 | Hôtel des Invalides | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1952 |
 | The Road to Damascus | Caïphe | Movie | 1952 |
 | Crimson Curtain | Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo | Movie | 1952 |
 | Full House | Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur") | Movie | 1952 |
 | The Girl with the Whip | Le tuteur | Movie | 1952 |
 | Mister Taxi | Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi » | Movie | 1952 |
 | Poison | Paul Louis Victor Braconnier | Movie | 1951 |
 | The Two Truths | Cidoni | Movie | 1951 |
 | The Beauty of the Devil | Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust | Movie | 1950 |
 | Fabiola | Senator Fabius Severus | Movie | 1949 |
 | La Carcasse et le Tord-cou | Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou' | Movie | 1948 |
 | The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean | Alcide Garonne | Movie | 1947 |
 | Not Guilty | Doctor Michel Ancelin | Movie | 1947 |
 | The Crowned Fish Tavern | Captain Palmer | Movie | 1947 |
 | Panic | Monsieur Hire | Movie | 1947 |
 | A Friend Will Come Tonight | Michel Lemaret | Movie | 1946 |
 | Vautrin the Thief | Vautrin | Movie | 1943 |
 | Shop Girls of Paris | Baudu | Movie | 1943 |
 | Girl of the Golden West | Butler | Movie | 1942 |
 | The King's Jester | Rigoletto | Movie | 1941 |
| The King's Jester | Screenplay | Movie | 1941 |
 | Tosca | Il barone Scarpia | Movie | 1941 |
 | Comedy of Happiness | Monsieur Jourdain | Movie | 1940 |
 | The Musicians of the Sky | Le capitaine Simon | Movie | 1940 |
 | Paris - New-York | Inspector Boucheron | Movie | 1940 |
 | Cavalcade of Love | Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret | Movie | 1939 |
 | Extenuating Circumstances | Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier | Movie | 1939 |
 | Fric-Frac | Jo | Movie | 1939 |
 | The Last Turning | Nick Marino | Movie | 1939 |
 | The End of the Day | Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy | Movie | 1939 |
 | Behind the Facade | Picking, knife-throwing artist | Movie | 1939 |
 | Deputy Eusèbe | Eusèbe Bonbonneau | Movie | 1939 |
 | Cocoanut | Josserand | Movie | 1939 |
 | Mother Love | Michel Quercy | Movie | 1938 |
 | The Stream | Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot' | Movie | 1938 |
 | Beautiful Star | Léon | Movie | 1938 |
 | The New Rich | Martinet | Movie | 1938 |
 | Port of Shadows | Zabel | Movie | 1938 |
 | Boys' School | Lemel, le professeur de dessin | Movie | 1938 |
 | Mirages | Michel | Movie | 1938 |
 | Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Michel | Movie | 1937 |
 | Bizarre, Bizarre | Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel | Movie | 1937 |
 | La Bataille silencieuse | Sauvin | Movie | 1937 |
 | Boulot aviateur | Baron Gobèche | Movie | 1937 |
 | Le Choc en retour | Laverdac | Movie | 1937 |
 | Let's Make a Dream | Un Invité (Prologue) | Movie | 1936 |
 | Girls of Paris | Baron de Beaupoil / his brother | Movie | 1936 |
 | The Twins of Brighton | Labrosse | Movie | 1936 |
 | Moutonnet | Frècheville | Movie | 1936 |
 | Under Western Eyes | Lespara | Movie | 1936 |
 | The Fleeing Dead | Achille Baluchet | Movie | 1936 |
 | Le Bébé de l'escadron | Perrot-Joly | Movie | 1935 |
 | Lovers and Thieves | Doizeau | Movie | 1935 |
| A Bum Deal | Boudu | Movie | 1935 | |
| Adémaï au Moyen Âge | Lord Pickwickdam | Movie | 1935 | |
 | Le Bonheur | Noël Malpiaz | Movie | 1934 |
 | Ladies Lake | Oscar Lyssenhop | Movie | 1934 |
 | L'Atalante | Père Jules | Movie | 1934 |
 | Léopold le bien-aimé | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1934 |
 | High and Low | M. Bodeletz | Movie | 1933 |
 | Miquette and Her Mother | Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette | Movie | 1933 |
 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Priape Boudu | Movie | 1932 |
| Boudu Saved from Drowning | Producer | Movie | 1932 |
| Baleydier | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1932 | |
 | La Chienne | Maurice Legrand | Movie | 1931 |
 | Baby's Laxative | Chouilloux | Movie | 1931 |
 | Jean of the Moon | Jean de la Lune | Movie | 1931 |
| Jean of the Moon | Director | Movie | 1931 |
 | Illegitimate Child | Lorédan | Movie | 1930 |
 | Pivoine | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1929 |
 | The Sad Sack | Joseph Turlot | Movie | 1928 |
 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Jean Lemaître | Movie | 1928 |
 | The Late Mathias Pascal | Jérôme Pomino | Movie | 1925 |
 | The Vocation of André Carel | Gaston Lebeau | Movie | 1925 |
 | The Gallery of Monsters | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1924 |
| Les Deux Réalités | Cidoni | Movie | — |