Michel Simon
Birthday: 1895-04-09
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland
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).
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession....
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The Train
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take...
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The House
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal...
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The Red Ibis
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with ...
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La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak...
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Emile's Boat
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometow...
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Panic
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns ...
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L'Atalante
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the ...
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The Last Turning
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind...
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The Two of Us
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewi...
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High and Low
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football...
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Extenuating Circumstances
Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leav...
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Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store....
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Cocoanut
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even wors...
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Boys' School
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, af...
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Not Guilty
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. ...
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Vautrin the Thief
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin,...
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Port of Shadows
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for ...
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The Late Mathias Pascal
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible moth...
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Poison
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other ...
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Shop Girls of Paris
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The pr...
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Three Make a Pair
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by c...
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Femmes de Paris
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs...
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tra...
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Crimson Curtain
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in wh...
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, ...
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....
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Baleydier
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized dur...
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The Sad Sack
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barrac...
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel t...
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more ...
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Moutonnet
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has ...
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Boulot aviateur
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their sh...
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Girls of Paris
A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glo...
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Deputy Eusèbe
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for el...
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Mister Taxi
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in...
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The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or ...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune p...
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The Beauty of the Devil
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at t...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on...
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Bizarre, Bizarre
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret...
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The Road to Damascus
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the a...
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with...
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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a do...
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Saadia
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful o...
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Hôtel des Invalides
A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chap...
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Baby's Laxative
A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and...
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Ladies Lake
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpi...
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Mother Love
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to c...
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Behind the Facade
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elder...
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Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s...
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The Stream
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advanta...
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Blanche
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every ma...
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The Crowned Fish Tavern
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the b...
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Under Western Eyes
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career i...
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy...
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Two Hours to Kill
In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who...
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Pivoine
Pivoine, a tramp living on the docks near Notre Dame, Macaroni and Georgette are his companions in m...
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Fabiola
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gl...
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The Vocation of André Carel
At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to L...
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Le Bonheur
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but...
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps...
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La Bataille silencieuse
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smug...
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The Fleeing Dead
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story...
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Paris - New-York
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. W...
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Full House
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and...
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A Certain Mr. Jo
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dr...
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Lovers and Thieves
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the...
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The Musicians of the Sky
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant....
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The King's Jester
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film ...
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La joyeuse prison
Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle tr...
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Cavalcade of Love
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the wall...
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A Bum Deal
In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three year...
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Let's Have a Riot
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a f...
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill....
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Hungarian Rhapsody
1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall ...
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between ...
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Let's Make a Dream
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds ther...
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The Head
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist di...
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The Girl with the Whip
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother....
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and inci...
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The New Rich
The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squanderi...
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Tosca
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
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Mirages
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer....
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Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of...
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Mémoires d'un flic
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man b...
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The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
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The Twins of Brighton
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great ...
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The Merchant of Venice
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...
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Miquette and Her Mother
The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience s...
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry....
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At the Order of the Czar
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, ...
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The Two Truths
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the recons...
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The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. ...
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Ecco
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavi...
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Pete the Tender
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stere...
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Jean of the Moon
Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother C...
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Illegitimate Child
The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journ...
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Léopold le bien-aimé
Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his villag...
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Beautiful Star
Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved b...
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La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds wi...
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, ...
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Le Choc en retour
A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is i...
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The Gallery of Monsters
The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around S...
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