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Michel Simon

Acting

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).

Born: April 9, 1895

Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland

Filmography

2019
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo

as Self (archive footage)

2007
Arletty, Lady Paname

as Self (archive footage)

2001
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

as Le père Jules (archive footage)

1977
Journey Through History

as Self (archive footage)

1975
1974
Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1972
Blanche

as Master

1970
The House

as Louis Compiegne

1970
1968
1967
The Two of Us

as Pépé

1966
Two Hours to Kill

as Locker Attendant

1965
1964
Cyrano and d'Artagnan

as Le Grognard

1964
The Train

as Papa Boul

1963
Ecco

as Self

1962
1962
Emile's Boat

as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel

1960
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve

1960
Pete the Tender

as Pierrot

1959
The Head

as Prof. Dr. Abel

1959
Discorama

as Self

1958
A Certain Mr. Jo

as Joseph "Jo" Guardini

1957
Three Make a Pair

as Commissaire Bernard

1956
La joyeuse prison

as Benoit, chief guard

1956
1956
Mémoires d'un flic

as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique

1955
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble

1954
At the Order of the Czar

as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954
Hungarian Rhapsody

as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein

1954
The Anatomy of Love

as Padre Silvio

1954
1953
Saadia

as Bou Rezza

1953
Femmes de Paris

as Professor Charles Buisson

1953
The Virtuous Scoundrel

as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste

1952
Hôtel des Invalides

as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

1952
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
1952
Mister Taxi

as Pierre Verger

1951
1951
Poison

as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier

1950
The Beauty of the Devil

as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

1949
Fabiola

as Senator Fabius Severus

1948
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou

as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'

1947
Not Guilty

as Doctor Michel Ancelin

1947
The Crowned Fish Tavern

as Captain Palmer

1947
Panic

as Monsieur Hire

1946
1943
1941
The King's Jester

as Rigoletto

1941
Tosca

as Il barone Scarpia

1940
Comedy of Happiness

as Monsieur Jourdain

1940
The Musicians of the Sky

as Le capitaine Simon

1940
Paris - New-York

as Inspector Boucheron

1939
Cavalcade of Love

as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret

1939
Extenuating Circumstances

as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier

1939
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

1938
Mother Love

as Michel Quercy

1938
The Stream

as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'

1938
1938
The New Rich

as Martinet

1938
1938
Boys' School

as Lemel, le professeur de dessin

1938
Mirages

as Michel

1937
Bizarre, Bizarre

as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel

1937
Boulot aviateur

as Baron Gobèche

1937
1936
Let's Make a Dream

as Un Invité (Prologue)

1936
Girls of Paris

as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother

1936
1936
Moutonnet

as Frècheville

1936
1936
The Fleeing Dead

as Achille Baluchet

1935
1935
1934
Le Bonheur

as Noël Malpiaz

1934
Ladies Lake

as Oscar Lyssenhop

1934
L'Atalante

as Père Jules

1934
Miquette and Her Mother

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

1933
High and Low

as M. Bodeletz

1932
1931
La Chienne

as Maurice Legrand

1931
Baby's Laxative

as Chouilloux

1931
Jean of the Moon

as Jean de la Lune

1930
1928
The Sad Sack

as Joseph Turlot

1928
1925
The Late Mathias Pascal

as Jérôme Pomino

1925
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