Michel Simon

Biography

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).

Career Overview

Michel Simon has 120 screen credits in a career dating back to 1924. Their work is anchored in the Zibaldone - Collezione universe with 1 titles. Signature works include The Beauty of the Devil, L'Atalante, Boudu Saved from Drowning. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Acting
Gender: male
Known Credits: 120
Birth Date: 1895-04-09 00:00:00
Birth Place: Geneva, Switzerland

Known For

Associated Universes

Zibaldone - Collezione (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Walerian Borowczyk (5 collaborations)
Jean Renoir (4 collaborations)
Jean Vigo (3 collaborations)
Jean-Paul Alphen (3 collaborations)
Albert Riéra (3 collaborations)
Jean Gehret (3 collaborations)
Marcel Courmes (3 collaborations)
René Clair (2 collaborations)
Boris Kaufman (2 collaborations)
Jean Dasté (2 collaborations)

Credits

actors (117 credits)
- Les Deux Réalités
  Cidoni
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Belmondo: The Incorrigible
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Morceaux de Cannes
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
  Lui-même
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- The Bardot mystery
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Arletty, Lady Paname
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
  Le père Jules (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Journey Through History
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- The Red Ibis
  Zizi
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
  Erotologist
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Spécial cinéma
  
  - Episode 12 (1978) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors
  
  1974
- The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
  Attorney Zorn
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- Blanche
  Master
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1972
- The House
  Louis Compiegne
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- Let's Have a Riot
  Cavazza
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
  Le vieux Jéricho
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- The Two of Us
  Pépé
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
  Self - Interviewee
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- Two Hours to Kill
  Locker Attendant
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1966
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
  Self - Interviewee
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1965
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan
  Le Grognard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- The Train
  Papa Boul
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Michel Simon
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- Ecco
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments
  Jérôme Chambard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- Emile's Boat
  Charles-Edmond Larmentiel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
  Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1960
- Pete the Tender
  Pierrot
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1960
- The Battle of Austerlitz
  Alboise
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1960
- The Head
  Prof. Dr. Abel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1959
- It Happened in Broad Daylight
  Jacquier
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1958
- A Certain Mr. Jo
  Joseph "Jo" Guardini
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1958
- Three Make a Pair
  Commissaire Bernard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1957
- La joyeuse prison
  Benoit, chief guard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- Mémoires d'un flic
  Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1956
- The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
  Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1955
- At the Order of the Czar
  Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- Hungarian Rhapsody
  General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- The Anatomy of Love
  Padre Silvio
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
  Auguste Bard
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1954
- Saadia
  Bou Rezza
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1953
- The Merchant of Venice
  Shylock
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1953
- Femmes de Paris
  Professor Charles Buisson
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1953
- The Virtuous Scoundrel
  Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1953
- Hôtel des Invalides
  Récitant / Narrator (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- The Road to Damascus
  Caïphe
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Crimson Curtain
  Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Full House
  Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- The Girl with the Whip
  Le tuteur
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Mister Taxi
  Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi »
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1952
- Poison
  Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- The Two Truths
  Cidoni
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1951
- The Beauty of the Devil
  Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1950
- Fabiola
  Senator Fabius Severus
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1949
- La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
  Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1948
- The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
  Alcide Garonne
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- Not Guilty
  Doctor Michel Ancelin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- The Crowned Fish Tavern
  Captain Palmer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- Panic
  Monsieur Hire
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1947
- A Friend Will Come Tonight
  Michel Lemaret
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1946
- Vautrin the Thief
  Vautrin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1943
- Shop Girls of Paris
  Baudu
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1943
- Girl of the Golden West
  Butler
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1942
- The King's Jester
  Rigoletto
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1941
- Tosca
  Il barone Scarpia
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1941
- Comedy of Happiness
  Monsieur Jourdain
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- The Musicians of the Sky
  Le capitaine Simon
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- Paris - New-York
  Inspector Boucheron
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1940
- Cavalcade of Love
  Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Extenuating Circumstances
  Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Fric-Frac
  Jo
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- The End of the Day
  Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Behind the Facade
  Picking, knife-throwing artist
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Deputy Eusèbe
  Eusèbe Bonbonneau
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1939
- Mother Love
  Michel Quercy
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- The Stream
  Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot'
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Beautiful Star
  Léon
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- The New Rich
  Martinet
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Port of Shadows
  Zabel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Boys' School
  Lemel, le professeur de dessin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Mirages
  Michel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1938
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
  Michel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Bizarre, Bizarre
  Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- La Bataille silencieuse
  Sauvin
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Boulot aviateur
  Baron Gobèche
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Le Choc en retour
  Laverdac
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1937
- Let's Make a Dream
  Un Invité (Prologue)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- Girls of Paris
  Baron de Beaupoil / his brother
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Twins of Brighton
  Labrosse
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- Moutonnet
  Frècheville
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- Under Western Eyes
  Lespara
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- The Fleeing Dead
  Achille Baluchet
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1936
- Le Bébé de l'escadron
  Perrot-Joly
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- Lovers and Thieves
  Doizeau
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- Adémaï au Moyen Âge
  Lord Pickwickdam
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- A Bum Deal
  Boudu
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1935
- Le Bonheur
  Noël Malpiaz
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Ladies Lake
  Oscar Lyssenhop
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- L'Atalante
  Père Jules
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- Léopold le bien-aimé
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1934
- High and Low
  M. Bodeletz
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1933
- Miquette and Her Mother
  Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1933
- Boudu Saved from Drowning
  Priape Boudu
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- Baleydier
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1932
- La Chienne
  Maurice Legrand
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Baby's Laxative
  Chouilloux
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Jean of the Moon
  Jean de la Lune
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1931
- Illegitimate Child
  Lorédan
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1930
- Pivoine
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1929
- The Sad Sack
  Joseph Turlot
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1928
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Jean Lemaître
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1928
- The Late Mathias Pascal
  Jérôme Pomino
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1925
- The Vocation of André Carel
  Gaston Lebeau
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1925
- The Gallery of Monsters
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1924
writing (1 credits)
- The King's Jester
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1941
production (1 credits)
- Boudu Saved from Drowning
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1932
directing (1 credits)
- Jean of the Moon
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1931