Michel Simon
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 9 April 1895 · Geneva, Switzerland
- Died
- 30 May 1975
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).
Known for
Acting 118
- 2025Les Deux Réalités as Cidoni
- 2022Belmondo: The Incorrigible
- 2021Morceaux de Cannes
- 2021René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu as Lui-même
- 2019Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo as Self (archive footage)
- 2012Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo as Self
- 2012The Bardot mystery
- 2007Arletty, Lady Paname as Self (archive footage)
- 2001Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé as Le père Jules (archive footage)
- 1977Journey Through History as Self (archive footage)
- 1975The Red Ibis as Zizi
- 1975The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan as Erotologist
- 1972The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life as Attorney Zorn
- 1972Blanche as Master
- 1970The House as Louis Compiegne
- 1970Let's Have a Riot as Cavazza
- 1968The Marriage Came Tumbling Down as Le vieux Jéricho
- 1967La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire as Un récitant
- 1967The Two of Us as Pépé
- 1967Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur as Self - Interviewee
- 1966Two Hours to Kill as Locker Attendant
- 1965Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry as Self - Interviewee
- 1964Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Le Grognard
- 1964The Train as Papa Boul
- 1964Michel Simon as Self
- 1963Ecco as Self
- 1962The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Jérôme Chambard
- 1962Emile's Boat as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
- 1960Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
- 1960Pete the Tender as Pierrot
- 1960Austerlitz as Alboise
- 1959The Head as Prof. Dr. Abel
- 1958It Happened in Broad Daylight as Jacquier
- 1958A Certain Mr. Jo as Joseph "Jo" Guardini
- 1957Three Make a Pair as Commissaire Bernard
- 1956La joyeuse prison as Benoit, chief guard
- 1956Mémoires d'un flic as Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
- 1955The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
- 1954At the Order of the Czar as Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
- 1954Hungarian Rhapsody as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
- 1954The Anatomy of Love as Padre Silvio
- 1954Strange Desire of Mr. Bard as Auguste Bard
- 1953Saadia as Bou Rezza
- 1953The Merchant of Venice as Shylock
- 1953Femmes de Paris as Professor Charles Buisson
- 1953The Virtuous Scoundrel as Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
- 1952Hôtel des Invalides as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
- 1952The Road to Damascus as Caïphe
- 1952Crimson Curtain as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
- 1952Full House as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
- 1952The Girl with the Whip as Le tuteur
- 1952Mister Taxi as Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
- 1951The Two Truths as Cidoni
- 1951Poison as Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
- 1950The Beauty of the Devil as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
- 1949Fabiola as Senator Fabius Severus
- 1948La Carcasse et le Tord-cou as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
- 1947The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean as Alcide Garonne
- 1947Not Guilty as Doctor Michel Ancelin
- 1947The Crowned Fish Tavern as Captain Palmer
- 1947Panic as Monsieur Hire
- 1946A Friend Will Come Tonight as Michel Lemaret
- 1943Vautrin the Thief as Vautrin
- 1943Shop Girls of Paris as Baudu
- 1942Girl of the Golden West as Butler
- 1941The King's Jester as Rigoletto
- 1941Tosca as Il barone Scarpia
- 1940Comedy of Happiness as Monsieur Jourdain
- 1940The Musicians of the Sky as Le capitaine Simon
- 1940Paris - New-York as Inspector Boucheron
- 1939Cavalcade of Love as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
- 1939Extenuating Circumstances as Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
- 1939Fric-Frac as Jo
- 1939The Last Turning as Nick Marino
- 1939The End of the Day as Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
- 1939Behind the Facade as Picking, knife-throwing artist
- 1939Deputy Eusèbe as Eusèbe Bonbonneau
- 1939Cocoanut as Josserand
- 1938Mother Love as Michel Quercy
- 1938The Stream as Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
- 1938Beautiful Star as Léon
- 1938The New Rich as Martinet
- 1938Port of Shadows as Zabel
- 1938Boys' School as Lemel, le professeur de dessin
- 1938Mirages as Michel
- 1937Naples Under the Kiss of Fire as Michel
- 1937Bizarre, Bizarre as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- 1937La Bataille silencieuse as Sauvin
- 1937Boulot aviateur as Baron Gobèche
- 1937Le Choc en retour as Laverdac
- 1936Let's Make a Dream as Un Invité (Prologue)
- 1936Girls of Paris as Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
- 1936The Twins of Brighton as Labrosse
- 1936Moutonnet as Frècheville
- 1936Under Western Eyes as Lespara
- 1936The Fleeing Dead as Achille Baluchet
- 1935Le Bébé de l'escadron as Perrot-Joly
- 1935Lovers and Thieves as Doizeau
- 1935A Bum Deal as Boudu
- 1935Adémaï au Moyen Âge as Lord Pickwickdam
- 1934Le Bonheur as Noël Malpiaz
- 1934Ladies Lake as Oscar Lyssenhop
- 1934L'Atalante as Père Jules
- 1934Léopold le bien-aimé
- 1933High and Low as M. Bodeletz
- 1933Miquette and Her Mother as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
- 1932Boudu Saved from Drowning as Priape Boudu
- 1932Baleydier
- 1931La Chienne as Maurice Legrand
- 1931Baby's Laxative as Chouilloux
- 1931Jean of the Moon as Jean de la Lune
- 1930Illegitimate Child as Lorédan
- 1929Pivoine
- 1928The Sad Sack as Joseph Turlot
- 1928The Passion of Joan of Arc as Jean Lemaître
- 1925The Late Mathias Pascal as Jérôme Pomino
- 1925The Vocation of André Carel as Gaston Lebeau
- 1924The Gallery of Monsters
Writing 1
- 1941The King's Jester · screenplay
Production 1
- 1932Boudu Saved from Drowning · producer
Directing 1
- 1931Jean of the Moon · director