Michel Simon

Acting

April 9, 1895

— May 30, 1975(80 years old)

Geneva, Switzerland

Popularity: 1

Biography

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).

Also Known As

Michel François Joseph Simon • François Joseph Simon • Франсуа Мишель Симон

Known For

8.0

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Jean Lemaître

7.6

The Train

Papa Boul

7.5

L'Atalante

Père Jules

7.4

Port of Shadows

Zabel

5.7

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Jérôme Chambard

7.4

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Jacquier

7.3

La Chienne

Maurice Legrand

6.7

Le Bonheur

Noël Malpiaz

7.2

The Beauty of the Devil

Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

6.6

The Battle of Austerlitz

Alboise

6.9

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Priape Boudu

6.9

Bizarre, Bizarre

Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

Photos of Michel Simon

Filmography

2010s

7.3

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

Self

2000s

6.0

Arletty, Lady Paname

Self (archive footage)

7.0

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

Le père Jules (archive footage)

1970s

Journey Through History

Self (archive footage)

5.0

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

Erotologist

5.6

The Red Ibis

Zizi

7.2

The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

Attorney Zorn

6.0

Blanche

Master

7.4

Let's Have a Riot

Cavazza

10.0

The House

Louis Compiegne

1960s

7.6

The Two of Us

Pépé

8.3

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur

Self - Interviewee

6.5

Two Hours to Kill

Locker Attendant

7.6

The Train

Papa Boul

5.9

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

Le Grognard

5.7

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Jérôme Chambard

6.6

Emile's Boat

Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

6.6

The Battle of Austerlitz

Alboise

6.4

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

1950s

5.1

The Head

Prof. Dr. Abel

7.4

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Jacquier

4.5

A Certain Mr. Jo

Joseph "Jo" Guardini

5.1

Three Make a Pair

Commissaire Bernard

8.0

La joyeuse prison

Benoit, chief guard

7.0

Mémoires d'un flic

Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

6.0

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

6.4

The Anatomy of Love

Padre Silvio

9.0

At the Order of the Czar

Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

6.3

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

Auguste Bard

10.0

Hungarian Rhapsody

General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

6.0

Saadia

Bou Rezza

7.0

Femmes de Paris

Professor Charles Buisson

6.1

The Virtuous Scoundrel

Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

6.7

The Merchant of Venice

Shylock

6.9

Full House

Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")

6.4

Mister Taxi

Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »

6.6

Crimson Curtain

Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

5.9

Hôtel des Invalides

Récitant / Narrator (voice)

8.0

The Road to Damascus

Caïphe

10.0

The Girl with the Whip

Le tuteur

7.2

Poison

Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

7.2

The Beauty of the Devil

Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

1940s

5.8

Fabiola

Senator Fabius Severus

7.5

Not Guilty

Doctor Michel Ancelin

6.9

The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean

Alcide Garonne

7.4

Panic

Monsieur Hire

6.0

The Crowned Fish Tavern

Captain Palmer

6.1

A Friend Will Come Tonight

Michel Lemaret

7.1

Shop Girls of Paris

Baudu

7.9

Vautrin the Thief

Vautrin

6.5

Girl of the Golden West

Butler

7.0

The King's Jester

Rigoletto

6.3

Tosca

Il barone Scarpia

7.0

Comedy of Happiness

Monsieur Jourdain

7.0

Paris - New-York

Inspector Boucheron

7.5

The Musicians of the Sky

Le capitaine Simon

1930s

6.1

Fric-Frac

6.7

The End of the Day

Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy

6.5

The Last Turning

Nick Marino

5.8

Cavalcade of Love

Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

7.7

Behind the Facade

Picking, knife-throwing artist

6.7

Extenuating Circumstances

Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

6.6

Cocoanut

Josserand

10.0

Deputy Eusèbe

Eusèbe Bonbonneau

7.4

Port of Shadows

Zabel

7.4

Boys' School

Lemel, le professeur de dessin

6.3

Mother Love

Michel Quercy

6.8

The Stream

Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'

7.0

Mirages

Michel

8.5

The New Rich

Martinet

6.9

Bizarre, Bizarre

Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

8.0

La Bataille silencieuse

Sauvin

10.0

Boulot aviateur

Baron Gobèche

6.3

Under Western Eyes

Lespara

6.9

Let's Make a Dream

Un Invité (Prologue)

7.1

The Fleeing Dead

Achille Baluchet

5.5

Girls of Paris

Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

7.0

The Twins of Brighton

Labrosse

9.0

Moutonnet

Frècheville

7.0

Lovers and Thieves

Doizeau

7.0

Le Bébé de l'escadron

Perrot-Joly

6.7

Le Bonheur

Noël Malpiaz

7.5

L'Atalante

Père Jules

4.1

Ladies Lake

Oscar Lyssenhop

5.7

High and Low

M. Bodeletz

7.5

Miquette and Her Mother

Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette

6.9

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Priape Boudu

7.3

La Chienne

Maurice Legrand

5.8

Baby's Laxative

Chouilloux

6.5

Jean of the Moon

Director

1920s

6.8

Pivoine

8.0

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Jean Lemaître

6.7

The Sad Sack

Joseph Turlot

7.0

The Late Mathias Pascal

Jérôme Pomino

5.6

The Vocation of André Carel

Gaston Lebeau