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