Michel Simon

Known for: Acting

Born: 1895-04-09 – 1975-05-30 (aged 80)

From: 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 (126)

MOVIE★ 8.2
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
MOVIE★ 2.0
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
MOVIE
René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
2021
as Lui-même
MOVIE
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.3
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
2012
as Self
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Bardot mystery
2012
MOVIE★ 6.0
Arletty, Lady Paname
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.0
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
2001
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
TV★ 9.0
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE
Journey Through History
1977
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Red Ibis
1975
as Zizi
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975
as Erotologist
TV★ 9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972
as Attorney Zorn
MOVIE★ 6.0
Blanche
1972
as Master
TV★ 8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
TV★ 6.0
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
MOVIE★ 10.0
The House
1970
as Louis Compiegne
MOVIE★ 7.1
Let's Have a Riot
1970
as Cavazza
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968
as Le vieux Jéricho
MOVIE
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967
as Un récitant
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Two of Us
1967
as Pépé
MOVIE★ 8.3
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
as Self - Interviewee
MOVIE★ 6.5
Two Hours to Kill
1966
as Locker Attendant
MOVIE★ 7.0
Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
1965
as Self - Interviewee
TV★ 8.0
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.9
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964
as Le Grognard
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Train
1964
as Papa Boul
MOVIE
Michel Simon
1964
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.8
Ecco
1963
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
as Jérôme Chambard
MOVIE★ 6.6
Emile's Boat
1962
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
MOVIE★ 6.4
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
MOVIE★ 5.7
Pete the Tender
1960
as Pierrot
MOVIE★ 6.6
Austerlitz
1960
as Alboise
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Head
1959
as Prof. Dr. Abel
TV★ 8.0
Discorama
1959
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.4
It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958
as Jacquier
MOVIE★ 4.5
A Certain Mr. Jo
1958
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
MOVIE★ 5.1
Three Make a Pair
1957
as Commissaire Bernard
MOVIE★ 8.0
La joyeuse prison
1956
as Benoit, chief guard
TV★ 8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
Mémoires d'un flic
1956
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
1955
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
MOVIE★ 9.0
At the Order of the Czar
1954
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
MOVIE★ 10.0
Hungarian Rhapsody
1954
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
TV★ 5.0
Reflets de Cannes
1954
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Anatomy of Love
1954
as Padre Silvio
MOVIE★ 6.3
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
1954
as Auguste Bard
MOVIE★ 6.0
Saadia
1953
as Bou Rezza
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Merchant of Venice
1953
as Shylock
MOVIE★ 7.0
Femmes de Paris
1953
as Professor Charles Buisson
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Virtuous Scoundrel
1953
as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
MOVIE★ 5.9
Hôtel des Invalides
1952
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Road to Damascus
1952
as Caïphe
MOVIE★ 6.6
Crimson Curtain
1952
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
MOVIE★ 6.9
Full House
1952
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Girl with the Whip
1952
as Le tuteur
MOVIE★ 6.4
Mister Taxi
1952
as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
MOVIE★ 7.2
Poison
1951
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Two Truths
1951
as Cidoni
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Beauty of the Devil
1950
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
MOVIE★ 5.8
Fabiola
1949
as Senator Fabius Severus
MOVIE★ 10.0
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
1948
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1947
as Alcide Garonne
MOVIE★ 7.5
Not Guilty
1947
as Doctor Michel Ancelin
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Crowned Fish Tavern
1947
as Captain Palmer
MOVIE★ 7.4
Panic
1947
as Monsieur Hire
MOVIE★ 6.1
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Michel Lemaret
MOVIE★ 7.9
Vautrin the Thief
1943
as Vautrin
MOVIE★ 7.1
Shop Girls of Paris
1943
as Baudu
MOVIE★ 6.5
Girl of the Golden West
1942
as Butler
MOVIE★ 7.0
The King's Jester
1941
as Rigoletto
MOVIE★ 6.3
Tosca
1941
as Il barone Scarpia
MOVIE★ 7.0
Comedy of Happiness
1940
as Monsieur Jourdain
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Musicians of the Sky
1940
as Le capitaine Simon
MOVIE★ 7.0
Paris - New-York
1940
as Inspector Boucheron
MOVIE★ 5.8
Cavalcade of Love
1939
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
MOVIE★ 6.7
Extenuating Circumstances
1939
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
MOVIE★ 6.1
Fric-Frac
1939
as Jo
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Last Turning
1939
as Nick Marino
MOVIE★ 6.7
The End of the Day
1939
as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
MOVIE★ 7.7
Behind the Facade
1939
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
MOVIE★ 10.0
Deputy Eusèbe
1939
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
MOVIE★ 6.6
Cocoanut
1939
as Josserand
MOVIE★ 6.3
Mother Love
1938
as Michel Quercy
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Stream
1938
as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
MOVIE★ 8.3
Beautiful Star
1938
as Léon
MOVIE★ 8.5
The New Rich
1938
as Martinet
MOVIE★ 7.4
Port of Shadows
1938
as Zabel
MOVIE★ 7.4
Boys' School
1938
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
MOVIE★ 7.0
Mirages
1938
as Michel
MOVIE★ 4.8
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
1937
as Michel
MOVIE★ 6.9
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
MOVIE★ 8.0
La Bataille silencieuse
1937
as Sauvin
MOVIE★ 10.0
Boulot aviateur
1937
as Baron Gobèche
MOVIE★ 10.0
Le Choc en retour
1937
as Laverdac
MOVIE★ 6.9
Let's Make a Dream
1936
as Un Invité (Prologue)
MOVIE★ 5.5
Girls of Paris
1936
as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Twins of Brighton
1936
as Labrosse
MOVIE★ 9.0
Moutonnet
1936
as Frècheville
MOVIE★ 6.3
Under Western Eyes
1936
as Lespara
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Fleeing Dead
1936
as Achille Baluchet
MOVIE★ 7.0
Le Bébé de l'escadron
1935
as Perrot-Joly
MOVIE★ 7.0
Lovers and Thieves
1935
as Doizeau
MOVIE
A Bum Deal
1935
as Boudu
MOVIE★ 7.0
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
1935
as Lord Pickwickdam
MOVIE★ 6.7
Le Bonheur
1934
as Noël Malpiaz
MOVIE★ 4.1
Ladies Lake
1934
as Oscar Lyssenhop
MOVIE★ 7.5
L'Atalante
1934
as Père Jules
MOVIE★ 9.0
Léopold le bien-aimé
1934
MOVIE★ 5.7
High and Low
1933
as M. Bodeletz
MOVIE★ 7.5
Miquette and Her Mother
1933
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
MOVIE★ 6.9
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932
as Priape Boudu
MOVIE★ 9.0
Baleydier
1932
MOVIE★ 7.3
La Chienne
1931
as Maurice Legrand
MOVIE★ 5.8
Baby's Laxative
1931
as Chouilloux
MOVIE★ 6.5
Jean of the Moon
1931
as Jean de la Lune
MOVIE★ 7.0
Illegitimate Child
1930
as Lorédan
MOVIE★ 6.8
Pivoine
1929
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Sad Sack
1928
as Joseph Turlot
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
as Jean Lemaître
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925
as Jérôme Pomino
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Vocation of André Carel
1925
as Gaston Lebeau
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Gallery of Monsters
1924
MOVIE★ 6.3
Les Deux Réalités
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as Cidoni