Michel Simon
Geneva, Switzerland

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).

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

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

Crew

The King's Jester (1941)
Screenplay
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Producer