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).
The Train
as Papa BoulAs the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to...
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
as Jean LemaîtreA classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized...
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Port of Shadows
as ZabelDown a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking...
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L'Atalante
as Père JulesCapricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship,...
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
as Priape BouduMichel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian...
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
as JacquierThe search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
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La Chienne
as Maurice LegrandCashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and...
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The Two of Us
as PépéA story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old...
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The Beauty of the Devil
as Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri FaustHenri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs...
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Bizarre, Bizarre
as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix ChapelA French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they...
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Poison
as Paul Louis Victor BraconnierPaul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each...
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Fric-Frac
as JoAn employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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Baby's Laxative
as ChouillouxA little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents...
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Panic
as Monsieur HireProud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman...
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The Battle of Austerlitz
as AlboiseNapoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Attorney ZornA successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is...
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Jérôme ChambardThe film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or...
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The Last Turning
as Nick MarinoFrank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older,...
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Boys' School
as Lemel, le professeur de dessinIn a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One...
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The Late Mathias Pascal
as Jérôme PominoMathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible...
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The Head
as Prof. Dr. AbelA scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the...
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The Sad Sack
as Joseph TurlotThe tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same...
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Saadia
as Bou RezzaSaadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a...
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Blanche
as MasterBlanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land....
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Albert et Alain Ménard-LacosteLa Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from...
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Cavalcade of Love
as Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & LacouretCavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the...
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Le Bonheur
as Noël MalpiazPhilippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress,...
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Crimson Curtain
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / BanquoBertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth...
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Ecco
as SelfA documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human...
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Full House
as Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur")Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution...
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The Stream
as le comte Edouard de BourgogneWhen Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes...
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Fabiola
as Senator Fabius SeverusIn ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a...
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Behind the Facade
as Picking, knife-throwing artistIn the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an...
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Tosca
as Il barone ScarpiaNon-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant...
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The End of the Day
as Cabrissade, l'éternelle doublureAged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...
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Emile's Boat
as Charles-Edmond LarmentielCharles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his...
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Ladies Lake
as Oscar LyssenhopA handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque...
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Extenuating Circumstances
as Mr. Gaetan, "Le Sentencier"Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement,...
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Let's Make a Dream
as Un Invité (Prologue)A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds...
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Two Hours to Kill
as Locker AttendantIn the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers,...
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Shop Girls of Paris
as BauduThe struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte....
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Femmes de Paris
as Professeur Charles BuissonProfessor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as Auguste BardA terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a...
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Vautrin the Thief
as VautrinA famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called...
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The King's Jester
as RigolettoBased on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the...
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The Merchant of Venice
as ShylockA rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes...
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Let's Have a Riot
as CavazzaEpisodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio,...
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Not Guilty
as Docteur AncelinAn alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an...
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Hôtel des Invalides
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis...
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Miquette and Her Mother
as Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à MiquetteThe irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will...
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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeubleA story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with...
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Under Western Eyes
as LesparaPolitical turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a...
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The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
as Le vieux JérichoJacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife...
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The Fleeing Dead
as Achille BaluchetTwo second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder...
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The Anatomy of Love
as Padre SilvioNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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Three Make a Pair
as Commissaire BernardJojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself...
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserveCharming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters...
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Paris-New York
as Le commissaire BoucheronThe forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude...
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Arletty, Lady Paname
as Self (archive footage)A biography of the French actress Arletty.
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
as Le GrognardDuelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the...
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Mister Taxi
as Pierre VergerAn honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of...
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Michel LemaretCommander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the...
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A Certain Mr. Jo
as Joseph "Jo" GuardiniJo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was...
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Beautiful Star
as LéonMeg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is...
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Deputy Eusèbe
as Eusèbe BonbonneauEusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs...
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Cocoanut
as JosserandA small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even...
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The Red Ibis
as ZiziA mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle...
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Le Choc en retour
as LaverdacA rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl...
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The Vocation of André Carel
as Gaston LebeauAt the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels...
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Lovers and Thieves
as DoizeauClaude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from...
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At the Order of the Czar
as Prince de Sayn-WittgensteinCarolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of...
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Pete the Tender
as PierrotIn this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the...
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
as Perrot-JolyA young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the...
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The Crowned Fish Tavern
as Captain PalmerCaptain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with...
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The Road to Damascus
as CaïpheSaul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when...
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The Girl with the Whip
as Le tuteurThe 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
as Alcide GaronneOn the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and...
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High and Low
as M. BodeletzThe intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a...
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Comedy of Happiness
as Monsieur JourdainMonsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what...
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The Musicians of the Sky
as Le capitaine SimonA would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
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Mother Love
as Michel QuercyGilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try...
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Journey Through History
as Self (archive footage)A journey through history
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Jean of the Moon
as Jean de la LuneMarceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her...
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Mémoires d'un flic
as Principal Commissioner Henri DominiqueIn Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young...
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
as MichelMario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of...
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La Bataille silencieuse
as SauvinA young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms...
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Mirages
as MichelA star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
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The House
as Louis CompiegneFormer professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with...
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The New Rich
as MartinetThe workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of...
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La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At...
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Boulot aviateur
as Baron GobècheAn operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of...
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The Twins of Brighton
as LabrosseSlapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two...
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La joyeuse prison
as Benoit, chief guardBenoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic...
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Moutonnet
as FrèchevilleA crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star,...
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as ErotologistA butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
as Self - IntervieweeSecond in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation...
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The Two Truths
as CidoniThe young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the...
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Girls of Paris
as uncreditedA few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always...
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Illegitimate Child
as LorédanThe illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a...
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Léopold le bien-aimé
as uncreditedAway in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his...
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Pivoine
as uncreditedPivoine, a tramp living on the docks near Notre Dame, Macaroni and Georgette are his companions...
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