Actor
· Acting
Michel Simon
Born 1895-04-09
Died 1975-05-30
📍 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 117
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
as Self
2012
The Bardot mystery
2012
Arletty, Lady Paname
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
2001
Journey Through History
as Self (archive footage)
1977
The Red Ibis
as Zizi
1975
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Erotologist
1975
Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1974
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Attorney Zorn
1972
Blanche
as Master
1972
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
The House
as Louis Compiegne
1970
Let's Have a Riot
as Cavazza
1970
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
as Le vieux Jéricho
1968
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967
The Two of Us
as Pépé
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
1967
Two Hours to Kill
as Locker Attendant
1966
Dim Dam Dom
as Self
1965
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
as Le Grognard
1964
The Train
as Papa Boul
1964
Ecco
as Self
1963
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Jérôme Chambard
1962
Emile's Boat
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
1962
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
1960
Pete the Tender
as Pierrot
1960
The Battle of Austerlitz
as Alboise
1960
The Head
as Prof. Dr. Abel
1959
Discorama
as Self
1959
It Happened in Broad Daylight
as Jacquier
1958
A Certain Mr. Jo
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
1958
Three Make a Pair
as Commissaire Bernard
1957
La joyeuse prison
as Benoit, chief guard
1956
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
Mémoires d'un flic
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
1956
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
1955
At the Order of the Czar
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
1954
Hungarian Rhapsody
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
1954
Reflets de Cannes
as Self
1954
The Anatomy of Love
as Padre Silvio
1954
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as Auguste Bard
1954
Saadia
as Bou Rezza
1953
The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
1953
Femmes de Paris
as Professor Charles Buisson
1953
The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
1953
Hôtel des Invalides
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1952
The Road to Damascus
as Caïphe
1952
Crimson Curtain
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
1952
Full House
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
1952
The Girl with the Whip
as Le tuteur
1952
Mister Taxi
as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
1952
Poison
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
1951
The Two Truths
as Cidoni
1951
The Beauty of the Devil
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
1950
Fabiola
as Senator Fabius Severus
1949
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
1948
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as Alcide Garonne
1947
Not Guilty
as Doctor Michel Ancelin
1947
The Crowned Fish Tavern
as Captain Palmer
1947
Panic
as Monsieur Hire
1947
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Michel Lemaret
1946
Vautrin the Thief
as Vautrin
1943
Shop Girls of Paris
as Baudu
1943
Girl of the Golden West
as Butler
1942
The King's Jester
as Rigoletto
1941
Tosca
as Il barone Scarpia
1941
Comedy of Happiness
as Monsieur Jourdain
1940
The Musicians of the Sky
as Le capitaine Simon
1940
Paris - New-York
as Inspector Boucheron
1940
Cavalcade of Love
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
1939
Extenuating Circumstances
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
1939
Fric-Frac
as Jo
1939
The Last Turning
as Nick Marino
1939
The End of the Day
as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
1939
Behind the Facade
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
1939
Deputy Eusèbe
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
1939
Cocoanut
as Josserand
1939
Mother Love
as Michel Quercy
1938
The Stream
as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
1938
Beautiful Star
as Léon
1938
The New Rich
as Martinet
1938
Port of Shadows
as Zabel
1938
Boys' School
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
1938
Mirages
as Michel
1938
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as Michel
1937
Bizarre, Bizarre
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
1937
La Bataille silencieuse
as Sauvin
1937
Boulot aviateur
as Baron Gobèche
1937
Le Choc en retour
as Laverdac
1937
Let's Make a Dream
as Un Invité (Prologue)
1936
Girls of Paris
as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
1936
The Twins of Brighton
as Labrosse
1936
Moutonnet
as Frècheville
1936
Under Western Eyes
as Lespara
1936
The Fleeing Dead
as Achille Baluchet
1936
Le Bébé de l'escadron
as Perrot-Joly
1935
Lovers and Thieves
as Doizeau
1935
Le Bonheur
as Noël Malpiaz
1934
Ladies Lake
as Oscar Lyssenhop
1934
L'Atalante
as Père Jules
1934
Léopold le bien-aimé
1934
High and Low
as M. Bodeletz
1933
Miquette and Her Mother
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
1933
Boudu Saved from Drowning
as Priape Boudu
1932
La Chienne
as Maurice Legrand
1931
Baby's Laxative
as Chouilloux
1931
Jean of the Moon
as Jean de la Lune
1931
Illegitimate Child
as Lorédan
1930
Pivoine
1929
The Sad Sack
as Joseph Turlot
1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
as Jean Lemaître
1928
The Late Mathias Pascal
as Jérôme Pomino
1925
The Vocation of André Carel
as Gaston Lebeau
1925
The Gallery of Monsters
1924