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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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Geneva, Switzerland, 1895-04-09

Died: 1975-05-30

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	The Gallery of Monsters		75
2	1925	The Vocation of André Carel	Gaston Lebeau	53
3	1925	The Late Mathias Pascal	Jérôme Pomino	70
4	1928	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Jean Lemaître	80
5	1928	The Sad Sack	Joseph Turlot	65
6	1929	Pivoine		62
7	1930	Illegitimate Child	Lorédan	60
8	1931	Jean of the Moon	Jean de la Lune	60
9	1931	Baby's Laxative	Chouilloux	57
10	1931	La Chienne	Maurice Legrand	73
11	1932	Baleydier		0
12	1932	Boudu Saved from Drowning	Priape Boudu	70
13	1933	High and Low	M. Bodeletz	50
14	1934	Léopold le bien-aimé		0
15	1934	Miquette and Her Mother	Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette	70
16	1934	L'Atalante	Père Jules	75
17	1934	Ladies Lake	Oscar Lyssenhop	41
18	1934	Le Bonheur	Noël Malpiaz	69
19	1935	A Bum Deal	Boudu	0
20	1935	Adémaï au Moyen Âge	Lord Pickwickdam	0
21	1935	Lovers and Thieves	Doizeau	0
22	1935	Le Bébé de l'escadron	Perrot-Joly	0
23	1936	The Fleeing Dead	Achille Baluchet	71
24	1936	Under Western Eyes	Lespara	62
25	1936	Moutonnet	Frècheville	0
26	1936	The Twins of Brighton	Labrosse	70
27	1936	Girls of Paris		40
28	1936	Let's Make a Dream	Un Invité (Prologue)	71
29	1937	Le Choc en retour	Laverdac	0
30	1937	Boulot aviateur	Baron Gobèche	0
31	1937	La Bataille silencieuse	Sauvin	0
32	1937	Bizarre, Bizarre	Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel	70
33	1937	Naples Under the Kiss of Fire	Michel	43
34	1938	Mirages	Michel	70
35	1938	Boys' School	Lemel, le professeur de dessin	74
36	1938	Port of Shadows	Zabel	75
37	1938	The New Rich	Martinet	70
38	1938	Beautiful Star	Léon	80
39	1938	The Stream	Le comte Edouard de Bourgogne dit 'L'Escargot'	67
40	1938	Mother Love	Michel Quercy	62
41	1939	Cocoanut	Josserand	65
42	1939	Deputy Eusèbe	Eusèbe Bonbonneau	0
43	1939	Behind the Facade	Picking, knife-throwing artist	78
44	1939	The End of the Day	Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy	68
45	1939	The Last Turning	Nick Marino	63
46	1939	Fric-Frac	Jo	62
47	1939	Extenuating Circumstances	Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier	66
48	1939	Cavalcade of Love	Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret	52
49	1940	Paris - New-York	Inspector Boucheron	70
50	1940	The Musicians of the Sky	Le capitaine Simon	67
51	1940	Comedy of Happiness	Monsieur Jourdain	64
52	1941	Tosca	Il barone Scarpia	53
53	1941	The King's Jester	Rigoletto	0
54	1942	Girl of the Golden West	Butler	60
55	1943	Shop Girls of Paris	Baudu	68
56	1943	Vautrin the Thief	Vautrin	76
57	1946	A Friend Will Come Tonight	Michel Lemaret	55
58	1947	Panic	Monsieur Hire	74
59	1947	The Crowned Fish Tavern	Captain Palmer	56
60	1947	Not Guilty	Doctor Michel Ancelin	75
61	1947	The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean	Alcide Garonne	66
62	1948	La Carcasse et le Tord-cou	Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'	0
63	1949	Fabiola	Senator Fabius Severus	59
64	1950	The Beauty of the Devil	Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust	72
65	1951	Poison	Paul Louis Victor Braconnier	71
66	1951	The Two Truths	Cidoni	90
67	1952	Mister Taxi	Pierre Verger	63
68	1952	The Girl with the Whip	Le tuteur	0
69	1952	Full House	Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")	66
70	1952	Crimson Curtain	Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo	63
71	1952	The Road to Damascus	Caïphe	0
72	1952	Hôtel des Invalides	Récitant / Narrator (voice)	58
73	1953	The Virtuous Scoundrel	Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste	61
74	1953	Femmes de Paris	Professor Charles Buisson	65
75	1953	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	50
76	1953	Saadia	Bou Rezza	58
77	1954	Strange Desire of Mr. Bard	Auguste Bard	59
78	1954	The Anatomy of Love	Padre Silvio	64
79	1954	Hungarian Rhapsody	General von Sayn-Wittgenstein	0
80	1954	At the Order of the Czar	Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein	0
81	1955	The Impossible Mr. Pipelet	Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble	55
82	1956	Mémoires d'un flic	Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique	0
83	1956	La joyeuse prison	Benoit, chief guard	0
84	1957	Three Make a Pair	Commissaire Bernard	52
85	1958	A Certain Mr. Jo	Joseph "Jo" Guardini	10
86	1958	It Happened in Broad Daylight	Jacquier	74
87	1959	The Head	Prof. Dr. Abel	50
88	1960	The Battle of Austerlitz	Alboise	66
89	1960	Pete the Tender	Pierrot	55
90	1960	Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century	Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve	61
91	1962	Emile's Boat	Charles-Edmond Larmentiel	64
92	1962	The Devil and the Ten Commandments	Jérôme Chambard	57
93	1963	Ecco	Self	50
94	1964	The Train	Papa Boul	75
95	1964	Cyrano and d'Artagnan	Le Grognard	58
96	1965	Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry	Self - Interviewee	0
97	1966	Two Hours to Kill	Locker Attendant	63
98	1967	Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur	Self - Interviewee	90
99	1967	The Two of Us	Pépé	76
100	1968	The Marriage Came Tumbling Down	Le vieux Jéricho	59
101	1970	Let's Have a Riot	Cavazza	69
102	1970	The House	Louis Compiegne	0
103	1972	Blanche	Master	61
104	1972	The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life	Attorney Zorn	73
105	1975	The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan	Erotologist	10
106	1975	The Red Ibis	Zizi	54
107	1977	Journey Through History	Self (archive footage)	0
108	2001	Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé	Le père Jules (archive footage)	70
109	2007	Arletty, Lady Paname	Self (archive footage)	60
110		Les Deux Réalités	Cidoni	63
111	2012	Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo	Self	73
112	2021	René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu	Lui-même	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
2	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
3	1959	Discorama	Self	0
4	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
5	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
6	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
7	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self (archive footage)	0
8	1978	Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma	Self (archive footage)	0