Acting · Geneva, Switzerland · Born April 9, 1895
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).
MovieBelmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
MovieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
2021
as Lui-même
MovieCarné, Prévert : drôle de duo
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
2012
as Self
MovieThe Bardot mystery
2012
MovieArletty, Lady Paname
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieJean Vigo : le son retrouvé
2001
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
MovieJourney Through History
1977
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Red Ibis
1975
as Zizi
MovieThe Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975
as Erotologist
TVSpécial cinéma
1974
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1972
as Attorney Zorn
MovieBlanche
1972
as Master
TVLe Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
MovieThe House
1970
as Louis Compiegne
MovieLet's Have a Riot
1970
as Cavazza
MovieThe Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968
as Le vieux Jéricho
MovieLa Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967
as Un récitant
MovieThe Two of Us
1967
as Pépé
MovieJean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1967
as Self - Interviewee
MovieTwo Hours to Kill
1966
as Locker Attendant
Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
1965
as Self - Interviewee
TVDim Dam Dom
1965
as Self
MovieCyrano and d'Artagnan
1964
as Le Grognard
MovieThe Train
1964
as Papa Boul
MovieMichel Simon
1964
as Self
MovieEcco
1963
as Self
MovieThe Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
as Jérôme Chambard
MovieEmile's Boat
1962
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
MovieCandide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
MoviePete the Tender
1960
as Pierrot
MovieAusterlitz
1960
as Alboise
MovieThe Head
1959
as Prof. Dr. Abel
TVDiscorama
1959
as Self
MovieIt Happened in Broad Daylight
1958
as Jacquier
MovieA Certain Mr. Jo
1958
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
MovieThree Make a Pair
1957
as Commissaire Bernard
MovieLa joyeuse prison
1956
as Benoit, chief guard
TVCinépanorama
1956
as Self
MovieMémoires d'un flic
1956
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
MovieThe Impossible Mr. Pipelet
1955
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
MovieAt the Order of the Czar
1954
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
MovieHungarian Rhapsody
1954
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
TVReflets de Cannes
1954
as Self
MovieThe Anatomy of Love
1954
as Padre Silvio
MovieStrange Desire of Mr. Bard
1954
as Auguste Bard
MovieSaadia
1953
as Bou Rezza
MovieThe Merchant of Venice
1953
as Shylock
MovieFemmes de Paris
1953
as Professor Charles Buisson
MovieThe Virtuous Scoundrel
1953
as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
MovieHôtel des Invalides
1952
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Road to Damascus
1952
as Caïphe
MovieCrimson Curtain
1952
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
MovieFull House
1952
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
MovieThe Girl with the Whip
1952
as Le tuteur
MovieMister Taxi
1952
as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
MoviePoison
1951
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
MovieThe Two Truths
1951
as Cidoni
MovieThe Beauty of the Devil
1950
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
MovieFabiola
1949
as Senator Fabius Severus
MovieLa Carcasse et le Tord-cou
1948
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
MovieThe Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1947
as Alcide Garonne
MovieNot Guilty
1947
as Doctor Michel Ancelin
MovieThe Crowned Fish Tavern
1947
as Captain Palmer
MoviePanic
1947
as Monsieur Hire
MovieA Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Michel Lemaret
MovieVautrin the Thief
1943
as Vautrin
MovieShop Girls of Paris
1943
as Baudu
MovieGirl of the Golden West
1942
as Butler
MovieThe King's Jester
1941
as Rigoletto
MovieTosca
1941
as Il barone Scarpia
MovieComedy of Happiness
1940
as Monsieur Jourdain
MovieThe Musicians of the Sky
1940
as Le capitaine Simon
MovieParis - New-York
1940
as Inspector Boucheron
MovieCavalcade of Love
1939
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
MovieExtenuating Circumstances
1939
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
MovieFric-Frac
1939
as Jo
MovieThe Last Turning
1939
as Nick Marino
MovieThe End of the Day
1939
as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
MovieBehind the Facade
1939
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
MovieDeputy Eusèbe
1939
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
MovieCocoanut
1939
as Josserand
MovieMother Love
1938
as Michel Quercy
MovieThe Stream
1938
as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
MovieBeautiful Star
1938
as Léon
MovieThe New Rich
1938
as Martinet
MoviePort of Shadows
1938
as Zabel
MovieBoys' School
1938
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
MovieMirages
1938
as Michel
MovieNaples Under the Kiss of Fire
1937
as Michel
MovieBizarre, Bizarre
1937
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
MovieLa Bataille silencieuse
1937
as Sauvin
MovieBoulot aviateur
1937
as Baron Gobèche
MovieLe Choc en retour
1937
as Laverdac
MovieLet's Make a Dream
1936
as Un Invité (Prologue)
MovieGirls of Paris
1936
as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
MovieThe Twins of Brighton
1936
as Labrosse
MovieMoutonnet
1936
as Frècheville
MovieUnder Western Eyes
1936
as Lespara
MovieThe Fleeing Dead
1936
as Achille Baluchet
MovieLe Bébé de l'escadron
1935
as Perrot-Joly
MovieLovers and Thieves
1935
as Doizeau
A Bum Deal
1935
as Boudu
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
1935
as Lord Pickwickdam
MovieLe Bonheur
1934
as Noël Malpiaz
MovieLadies Lake
1934
as Oscar Lyssenhop
MovieL'Atalante
1934
as Père Jules
MovieLéopold le bien-aimé
1934
MovieHigh and Low
1933
as M. Bodeletz
MovieMiquette and Her Mother
1933
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
MovieBoudu Saved from Drowning
1932
as Priape Boudu
Baleydier
1932
MovieLa Chienne
1931
as Maurice Legrand
MovieBaby's Laxative
1931
as Chouilloux
MovieJean of the Moon
1931
as Jean de la Lune
MovieIllegitimate Child
1930
as Lorédan
MoviePivoine
1929
MovieThe Sad Sack
1928
as Joseph Turlot
MovieThe Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
as Jean Lemaître
MovieThe Late Mathias Pascal
1925
as Jérôme Pomino
MovieThe Vocation of André Carel
1925
as Gaston Lebeau
MovieThe Gallery of Monsters
1924
Les Deux Réalités
as Cidoni
