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Michel 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).

Et billede af Michel Simon

Actor

1924

[ ] The Gallery of Monsters (????)

1925

[ ] The Late Mathias Pascal (Jérôme Pomino)
[ ] The Vocation of André Carel (Gaston Lebeau)

1928

[ ] The Sad Sack (Joseph Turlot)
[ ] The Passion of Joan of Arc (Jean Lemaître)

1929

[ ] Pivoine (????)

1930

[ ] Illegitimate Child (Lorédan)

1931

[ ] La Chienne (Maurice Legrand)
[ ] Baby's Laxative (Chouilloux)
[ ] Jean of the Moon (Jean de la Lune)

1932

[ ] Boudu Saved from Drowning (Priape Boudu)
[ ] Baleydier (????)

1933

[ ] High and Low (M. Bodeletz)
[ ] Miquette and Her Mother (Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette)

1934

[ 7/10 ] L'Atalante (Père Jules)
[ ] Ladies Lake (Oscar Lyssenhop)
[ ] Le Bonheur (Noël Malpiaz)
[ ] Léopold le bien-aimé (????)

1935

[ ] Le Bébé de l'escadron (Perrot-Joly)
[ ] Lovers and Thieves (Doizeau)
[ ] A Bum Deal (Boudu)
[ ] Adémaï au Moyen Âge (Lord Pickwickdam)

1936

[ ] Moutonnet (Frècheville)
[ ] Girls of Paris (Baron de Beaupoil / his brother)
[ ] Under Western Eyes (Lespara)
[ ] The Fleeing Dead (Achille Baluchet)
[ ] Let's Make a Dream (Un Invité (Prologue))
[ ] The Twins of Brighton (Labrosse)

1937

[ ] Boulot aviateur (Baron Gobèche)
[ ] Bizarre, Bizarre (Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel)
[ ] La Bataille silencieuse (Sauvin)
[ ] Naples Under the Kiss of Fire (Michel)
[ ] Le Choc en retour (Laverdac)

1938

[ ] Boys' School (Lemel, le professeur de dessin)
[ ] Port of Shadows (Zabel)
[ ] Mother Love (Michel Quercy)
[ ] The Stream (Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot')
[ ] The New Rich (Martinet)
[ ] Mirages (Michel)
[ ] Beautiful Star (Léon)

1939

[ ] The Last Turning (Nick Marino)
[ ] Extenuating Circumstances (Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier)
[ ] Fric-Frac (Jo)
[ ] Cocoanut (Josserand)
[ ] Deputy Eusèbe (Eusèbe Bonbonneau)
[ ] The End of the Day (Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy)
[ ] Behind the Facade (Picking, knife-throwing artist)
[ ] Cavalcade of Love (Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret)

1940

[ ] Comedy of Happiness (Monsieur Jourdain)
[ ] Paris - New-York (Inspector Boucheron)
[ ] The Musicians of the Sky (Le capitaine Simon)

1941

[ ] The King's Jester (Rigoletto)
[ ] Tosca (Il barone Scarpia)

1942

[ ] Girl of the Golden West (Butler)

1943

[ ] Vautrin the Thief (Vautrin)
[ ] Shop Girls of Paris (Baudu)

1946

[ ] A Friend Will Come Tonight (Michel Lemaret)

1947

[ ] Panic (Monsieur Hire)
[ ] Not Guilty (Doctor Michel Ancelin)
[ ] The Crowned Fish Tavern (Captain Palmer)
[ ] The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean (Alcide Garonne)

1948

[ ] La Carcasse et le Tord-cou (Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou')

1949

[ ] Fabiola (Senator Fabius Severus)

1950

[ ] The Beauty of the Devil (Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust)

1951

[ ] Poison (Paul Louis Victor Braconnier)
[ ] The Two Truths (Cidoni)

1952

[ ] Crimson Curtain (Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo)
[ ] Mister Taxi (Pierre Verger)
[ ] The Road to Damascus (Caïphe)
[ ] Hôtel des Invalides (Récitant / Narrator (voice))
[ ] Full House (Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur"))
[ ] The Girl with the Whip (Le tuteur)

1953

[ ] Femmes de Paris (Professor Charles Buisson)
[ ] The Virtuous Scoundrel (Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste)
[ ] Saadia (Bou Rezza)
[ ] The Merchant of Venice (Shylock)

1954

[ ] Strange Desire of Mr. Bard (Auguste Bard)
[ ] Hungarian Rhapsody (General von Sayn-Wittgenstein)
[ ] The Anatomy of Love (Padre Silvio)
[ ] At the Order of the Czar (Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein)

1955

[ ] The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble)

1956

[ ] La joyeuse prison (Benoit, chief guard)
[ ] Mémoires d'un flic (Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique)

1957

[ ] Three Make a Pair (Commissaire Bernard)

1958

[ ] It Happened in Broad Daylight (Jacquier)
[ ] A Certain Mr. Jo (Joseph "Jo" Guardini)

1959

[ ] The Head (Prof. Dr. Abel)

1960

[ ] The Battle of Austerlitz (Alboise)
[ ] Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve)
[ ] Pete the Tender (Pierrot)

1962

[ ] Emile's Boat (Charles-Edmond Larmentiel)
[ ] The Devil and the Ten Commandments (Jérôme Chambard)

1963

[ ] Ecco (Self)

1964

[ ] The Train (Papa Boul)
[ ] Cyrano and d'Artagnan (Le Grognard)

1965

[ ] Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry (Self - Interviewee)

1966

[ ] Two Hours to Kill (Locker Attendant)

1967

[ ] The Two of Us (Pépé)
[ ] Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (Self - Interviewee)
[ ] La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire (????)

1968

[ ] The Marriage Came Tumbling Down (Le vieux Jéricho)

1970

[ ] The House (Louis Compiegne)
[ ] Let's Have a Riot (Cavazza)

1972

[ ] The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (Attorney Zorn)
[ ] Blanche (Master)

1975

[ ] The Red Ibis (Zizi)
[ ] The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (Erotologist)

1977

[ ] Journey Through History (Self (archive footage))

2001

[ ] Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé (Le père Jules (archive footage))

2007

[ ] Arletty, Lady Paname (Self (archive footage))

2012

[ ] Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo (Self)

2019

[ ] Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo (Self (archive footage))

2021

[ ] René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu (Lui-même)

2022

[ ] Belmondo: The Incorrigible (????)

????

[ ] Les Deux Réalités (Cidoni)

Writing

1941

[ ] The King's Jester (Screenplay)

Production

1932

[ ] Boudu Saved from Drowning (Producer)

Directing

1931

[ ] Jean of the Moon (Director)