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