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