Cast & creator
Michel Simon
Best known for Spécial cinéma, Le Grand Échiquier, Samedi soir
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
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film credits
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television credits
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1924–2022 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (129)
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Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972Samedi soir
Self
1971
Discorama
Self
1959
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954
Dim Dam Dom
Self
1965Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Jean Lemaître
1928
The Train
Papa Boul
1964
Austerlitz
Alboise
1960
Port of Shadows
Zabel
1938
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Jérôme Chambard
1962
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Poison
Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
1951
Fric-Frac
Jo
1939
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Jacquier
1958
Extenuating Circumstances
Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
1939
L'Atalante
Père Jules
1934
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Head
Prof. Dr. Abel
1959
The Stream
Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
1938
Vautrin the Thief
Vautrin
1943
A Certain Mr. Jo
Joseph "Jo" Guardini
1958
The Anatomy of Love
Padre Silvio
1954
Three Make a Pair
Commissaire Bernard
1957
The Two of Us
Pépé
1967
The Beauty of the Devil
Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
1950
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
Le père Jules (archive footage)
2001
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
1953
Mother Love
Michel Quercy
1938
Emile's Boat
Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
1962
The Bardot mystery
2012
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
1953
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Le Grognard
1964
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Auguste Bard
1954
Mirages
Michel
1938
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
Le vieux Jéricho
1968
Miquette and Her Mother
Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
1933
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Attorney Zorn
1972
The Crowned Fish Tavern
Captain Palmer
1947
Deputy Eusèbe
Eusèbe Bonbonneau
1939
Hungarian Rhapsody
General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
1954
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Priape Boudu
1932Boudu Saved from Drowning
Producer
1932
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Erotologist
1975
The End of the Day
Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
1939
Beautiful Star
Léon
1938
La Chienne
Maurice Legrand
1931
The Girl with the Whip
Le tuteur
1952
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
1948
Pete the Tender
Pierrot
1960
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Michel Lemaret
1946
The King's Jester
Rigoletto
1941The King's Jester
Screenplay
1941
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
1960
Jean of the Moon
Clothaire dit Clo-Clo
1931Jean of the Moon
Director
1931
Two Hours to Kill
Locker Attendant
1966
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
1955
The Fleeing Dead
Achille Baluchet
1936
High and Low
M. Bodeletz
1933
Boys' School
Lemel, le professeur de dessin
1938
The Gallery of Monsters
1924
Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Road to Damascus
Caïphe
1952Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Lord Pickwickdam
1935
Under Western Eyes
Lespara
1936
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un récitant
1967
Bizarre, Bizarre
Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
1937
At the Order of the Czar
Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
1954
Shop Girls of Paris
Baudu
1943
The Late Mathias Pascal
Jérôme Pomino
1925
Pivoine
1929
Cavalcade of Love
Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
1939
Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain
1940
Full House
Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
1952
The Musicians of the Sky
Le capitaine Simon
1940
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Alcide Garonne
1947
Girl of the Golden West
Butler
1942
Fabiola
Senator Fabius Severus
1949Baleydier
1932
Ecco
Self
1963
Mémoires d'un flic
Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
1956
The Vocation of André Carel
Gaston Lebeau
1925
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Michel
1937Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
Self - Interviewee
1965
Léopold le bien-aimé
1934
Behind the Facade
Picking, knife-throwing artist
1939
Let's Make a Dream
Un Invité (Prologue)
1936
Crimson Curtain
Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
1952
Panic
Monsieur Hire
1947
Let's Have a Riot
Cavazza
1970
Girls of Paris
Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
1936
Not Guilty
Doctor Michel Ancelin
1947
Blanche
Master
1972
The Twins of Brighton
Labrosse
1936
Le Bonheur
Noël Malpiaz
1934
Journey Through History
Self (archive footage)
1977
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
Self
2012
The Last Turning
Nick Marino
1939
Le Choc en retour
Laverdac
1937
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Self - Interviewee
1967
Le Bébé de l'escadron
Perrot-Joly
1935
Saadia
Bou Rezza
1953
Illegitimate Child
Lorédan
1930
La joyeuse prison
Benoit, chief guard
1956
Arletty, Lady Paname
Self (archive footage)
2007
Paris - New-York
Inspector Boucheron
1940
Mister Taxi
Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
1952
Michel Simon
Self
1964
The Red Ibis
Zizi
1975
Baby's Laxative
Chouilloux
1931
The Two Truths
Cidoni
1951
Ladies Lake
Oscar Lyssenhop
1934
Cocoanut
Josserand
1939A Bum Deal
Boudu
1935
Hôtel des Invalides
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1952
The New Rich
Martinet
1938
Femmes de Paris
Professor Charles Buisson
1953René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
Lui-même
2021
Lovers and Thieves
Doizeau
1935
Boulot aviateur
Baron Gobèche
1937
The House
Louis Compiegne
1970
The Sad Sack
Joseph Turlot
1928
Tosca
Il barone Scarpia
1941
La Bataille silencieuse
Sauvin
1937
Moutonnet
Frècheville
1936Les Deux Réalités
Cidoni