Birthday
1895/04/09
Day of death
1975/05/30 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Geneva, Switzerland
Also know as
Мишель Симон, Michel François Joseph Simon, François Joseph Simon
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).
(1958) It Happened in Broad Daylight
as Jacquier
(1964) The Train
as Papa Boul
(1970) The House
as Louis Compiegne
(1975) The Red Ibis
as Zizi
(1931) La Chienne
as Maurice Legrand
(1962) Emile's Boat
as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
(1947) Panic
as Monsieur Hire
(1934) L'Atalante
as Père Jules
(1939) The Last Turning
as Nick Marino
(1967) The Two of Us
as Pépé
(1933) High and Low
as M. Bodeletz
(1939) Extenuating Circumstances
as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
(1939) Fric-Frac
as Jo
(1939) Cocoanut
as Josserand
(1938) Boys' School
as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
(1947) Not Guilty
as Docteur Ancelin
(1943) Vautrin the Thief
as Vautrin
(1938) Port of Shadows
as Zabel
(1925) The Late Mathias Pascal
as Jérôme Pomino
(1951) Poison
as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
(1943) Shop Girls of Paris
as Baudu
(1957) Three Make a Pair
as Commissaire Bernard
(1953) Femmes de Paris
as Professeur Charles Buisson
(1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning
as Priape Boudu
(1952) Crimson Curtain
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
(1953) The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Albert et Alain Ménard-Lacoste
(1960) The Battle of Austerlitz
as Alboise
(1932) Baleydier
as ---
(1928) The Sad Sack
as Joseph Turlot
(1935) Le Bébé de l'escadron
as Perrot-Joly
(1962) The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Jérôme Chambard
(1936) Moutonnet
as Frècheville
(1937) Boulot aviateur
as Baron Gobèche
(1936) Girls of Paris
as ---
(1939) Deputy Eusèbe
as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
(1952) Mister Taxi
as Pierre Verger
(1939) The End of the Day
as Cabrissade, l'éternelle doublure
(2021) René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
as Lui-même
(1954) Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as Auguste Bard
(1950) The Beauty of the Devil
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
(1972) The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Attorney Zorn
(1937) Bizarre, Bizarre
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
(1952) The Road to Damascus
as Caïphe
(1960) Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
(1955) The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
(1953) Saadia
as Bou Rezza
(1952) Hôtel des Invalides
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
(1931) Baby's Laxative
as Chouilloux
(1934) Ladies Lake
as Oscar Lyssenhop
(1938) Mother Love
as Michel Quercy
(1939) Behind the Facade
as Picking, knife-throwing artist
(1940) Comedy of Happiness
as Monsieur Jourdain
(1938) The Stream
as le comte Edouard de Bourgogne
(1972) Blanche
as Master
(1947) The Crowned Fish Tavern
as Captain Palmer
(1936) Under Western Eyes
as Lespara
(1964) Cyrano and d'Artagnan
as Le Grognard
(1966) Two Hours to Kill
as Locker Attendant
(1929) Pivoine
as ---
(1949) Fabiola
as Senator Fabius Severus
(1925) The Vocation of André Carel
as Gaston Lebeau
(1934) Le Bonheur
as Noël Malpiaz
(1946) A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Michel Lemaret
(1942) Girl of the Golden West
as Butler
(1937) La Bataille silencieuse
as Sauvin
(1936) The Fleeing Dead
as Achille Baluchet
(1940) Paris - New-York
as Le commissaire Boucheron
(1952) Full House
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
(1958) A Certain Mr. Jo
as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
(1977) Journey Through History
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) Lovers and Thieves
as Doizeau
(1940) The Musicians of the Sky
as Le capitaine Simon
(1941) The King's Jester
as Rigoletto
(1956) La joyeuse prison
as Benoit, chief guard
(1939) Cavalcade of Love
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
(1935) A Bum Deal
as Boudu
(1970) Let's Have a Riot
as Cavazza
(1975) The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Erotologist
(2007) Arletty, Lady Paname
as Self (archive footage)
(1954) Hungarian Rhapsody
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1928) The Passion of Joan of Arc
as Jean Lemaître
(1967) Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - Interviewee
(1936) Let's Make a Dream
as Un Invité (Prologue)
(1959) The Head
as Prof. Dr. Abel
(1952) The Girl with the Whip
as Le tuteur
(1947) The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as Alcide Garonne
(1938) The New Rich
as Martinet
(1941) Tosca
as Il barone Scarpia
(1938) Mirages
as Michel
(1935) Adémaï au Moyen Âge
as Lord Pickwickdam
(1956) Mémoires d'un flic
as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
Les Deux Réalités
as Cidoni
(1954) The Anatomy of Love
as Padre Silvio
(2001) Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
as Le père Jules (archive footage)
(1936) The Twins of Brighton
as Labrosse
(2012) Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
as Self
(1953) The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
(1934) Miquette and Her Mother
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
(1965) Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
as Self - Interviewee
(1954) At the Order of the Czar
as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
(1951) The Two Truths
as Cidoni
(1968) The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
as Le vieux Jéricho
(1963) Ecco
as Self
(1960) Pete the Tender
as Pierrot
(1931) Jean of the Moon
as Jean de la Lune
(1930) Illegitimate Child
as Lorédan
(1934) Léopold le bien-aimé
as ---
(1938) Beautiful Star
as Léon
(1948) La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
(1937) Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as Michel
(1937) Le Choc en retour
as Laverdac
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1965) Dim Dam Dom
as Self
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1990) Star Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Cinépanorama
as Self
(1959) Discorama
as Self
(1971) Samedi soir
as Self
(1954) Reflets de Cannes
as Self