Michel SimonFilmography

Born:: April 9, 1895 in Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: François Simon
Biography:: Swiss-born actor Michel Simon was one of the most popular and beloved actors of the French cinema. The son of a sausage maker, Simon drifted through his early years as a boxer, commercial photographer and acrobat. He turned "straight" actor in 1918, making his Geneva stage debut two years later....Read More

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Le Boucher, La Star et l'Orpheline

Actors: Gerard Croce, Christopher Lee, Micheline Presle, Elisabeth Mortensen, Michel Simon, Valerie Kling

Synopsis: The Grand Magic Circus, which performed on streets and in theaters in the 1970s, here takes to film. The story told concerns a butcher who has ambitions to tell a high-minded tale as a filmmaker, and will resort to any means whether fair or foul, to accomplish his goal. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1975
L'Ibis Rouge

Actors: Michel Simon, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Evelyne Buyle, Jean Le Poulain

Synopsis: This crime drama, with elements of comedy and satire, is most notable as the final screen appearance of Michel Simon. In the story, Simon plays Zizi, a news vendor who is tired of anonymity and doesn't much like people anyway. He confesses to a series of strangling murders which, in fact, he has Read More

1975
La Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vita

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Claude Dauphin, Charles Vanel, Michel Simon, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was shot. One of his better-known films is Children of Paradise. In this film, an Italian industrialist (Alberto Sordi) who has made his fortune using some shady tactics Read More

12/21/72
Blanche

Actors: Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin, Georges Wilson, Lawrence Trimble

Synopsis: Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche is a tragic romantic tale set in 13th century France. While visiting the castle of an old landlord (Michel Simon), both the king (Georges Wilson) and his philandering page Bartolomeo (Jacques Perrin) try to seduce the landlord's young, naive wife Blanche (Ligia Read More

1971
Contestazione Generale

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest. Riccardo (Vittorio Gassman) is a rebel who causes confusion on campus and at a television station. Part two finds industrial magnate Cavazza (Michel Simon) hounding his Read More

3/14/70
La Maison

Actors: Michel Simon, Patti D'Arbanville, Paul Preboist, Alain Libolt

Synopsis: Louis (Michel Simon) is the elderly science professor who is visited by the daughter of an American colleague. Lorraine (Patricia D'Arbanville) is the 18-year-old hippie student who Louis picks up hitchhiking. He lets her stay, after initially having reservations, and comes to like the perky teen. Read More

1970
Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant

Actors: Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole, Roger Carel

Synopsis: Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a triumphant return to leading roles in the charming, poignant The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant). Simon plays a likeable old soak with one significant character flaw: he Read More

1968
Ce Sacré Grand Pere

Actors: Michel Simon, Marie Dubois, Yves Lefebvre, Thalie Fruges, Serge Gainsbourg

Synopsis: Jericho (Michel Simon) is a grandfather and a veterinarian who invites his grandson for a visit. The grandson and his wife are separated, but the two agree to make it appear that they are a happy couple. The grandfather knows better, realizing all along the couple is estranged. He slyly works to Read More

1968
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

Synopsis: In this drama, a couple embroiled in marital turmoil decide to go on a three-week vacation to save their marriage. They end up staying with the husband's grandfather who is shocked to see that the marriage is truly failing. One day, as the philandering hubby returns from a tryst with his mistress Read More

1968
Deux Heures A Tuer

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon, Raymond Rouleau, Jean-Roger Caussimon

Synopsis: Laurent (Pierre Brasseur) is a newspaper reporter sent to investigate a string of mysterious small-town murders. Although he fails to solve the crime, he uncovers a murder plot concocted by a wife and her lover to kill the woman's husband. The uneven feature careens from comedy to drama with some Read More

1965
The Train

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspector. Allied forces are threatening to liberate Paris, so Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) is ordered to move the priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume Museum Read More

10/29/64
Michel Simon

Synopsis: French dialogue and English subtitles are featured in this review of the career of Michel Simon who worked with Jean Vigo and Jean Renoir. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

9/14/62
Le Bateau D'Emile

Actors: Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Various genres -- social satire, comedy, and romance -- come together in this routine tale by Denis de la Patellière about a family and greed. The well-heeled family gets its fortune from the canning of fish, and all its members are thrown into disarray when a long-lost brother comes back home. Read More

3/2/62
The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More

6/17/60
Pierrot la Tendresse

Actors: Michel Simon, Dany Saval, Claude Brasseur, Marie Daems

Synopsis: In this routine crime drama, popular French actor and comic Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he Read More

1960
Candide

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed Read More

1960
The Head

Actors: Christiane Maybach, Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmidt

Synopsis: A horror film of dubious taste, a least for the early '60s when it was released, this Gothic tale about transplanted heads comes from Germany and is directed by Victor Trivas. Prof. Abel (Michel Simon) has invented the miraculous "Serum X," and with it he successfully keeps a dog's head alive Read More

1959
Es geschah am hellichten Tag

Actors: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: A Swiss-French coproduction, It Happened in Broad Daylight is an austere but shocking story of the hunt for a human monster. A forest community is terrorized by a child murderer, who per the title strikes in broad daylight. Whereas such a criminal might be more easily tracked down in the confines Read More

1958
Les Trois Font la Paire

Actors: Michel Simon, Sophie Desmarets, Darry Cowl, Philippe Nicaud

Synopsis: A film company on location happens to photograph a murder in progress. Ambitious police inspector Bernard (Michel Simon) hopes to advance his career by nabbing the culprit. Unfortunately for Bernard, the murderer closely resembles a set of identical twins! Once Simon finally figures out who's who Read More

1957
Un Certain Monsieur Jo

Actors: Michel Simon, Genevieve Kervine, Jacques Morel, Raymond Bussières

1957
La Joyeuse Prison

Actors: Michel Simon, Paulette Dubost

1956
L'Impossible Monsieur Pipelet

Actors: Michel Simon, Gaby Morlay, Etchika Choureau, Georgette Anys

1955
Les Mémoires D'Un Flic

Actors: Michel Simon, Lucienne Lemarchand

1955
Tempi Nostri

Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More

3/16/54
Par Ordre Du Tsar

Actors: Michel Simon, Jacques Francois, Lucienne Lemarchand, Willy Fritsch

Synopsis: Par Ordre du Tsar (At the Order of the Czar) is liberally based on an incident in the life of famed composer -- and notorious lover -- Franz Liszt. The story concerns the romance between Liszt (Jacques Francois) and the beautiful Russian princess Caroline (Colette Marchand). Alas, Caroline is Read More

1954
Quelques Pas Dans La Vie

Actors: François Perier, Yves Montand, Danièle Delorme, Michel Simon

1954
Le Marchand de Venise

Actors: Michel Simon, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: Even allowing for its translation into modern French, this is a remarkably unfaithful adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The central role of the usurious Shylock is played by Michel Simon, who manages to convey both the menace and the pathos of the character without Read More

2/1/53
Saadia

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Michel Simon, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Saadia is an MGM-ized version of the Francis D'Autheville novel Echeck au Destin. Produced, directed and written by the always fascinating Albert Lewin (The Moon and Sixpence, Picture of Dorian Gray), the film stars Cornel Wilde as Si Lahssen, the progressive ruler of the Moroccan province of Read More

1953
La Vie d'un Honnete Homme

Actors: Marguerite Pierry, Michel Simon, Laurence Badie, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: La Vie d'un Honnette Homme was the sole 1953 contribution from indefatigable French filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who scripted and directed. Surprisingly, Guitry does not play the film's titular "honest man." Michel Simon essays that role -- or rather, "roles," since Simon plays twin brothers Read More

1952
Brelan D'As

Actors: Michel Simon, Raymond Rouleau

Synopsis: The English-language title of this French "omnibus" film is Full House. Three stories by three famed detective-fiction writers are dramatized herein. In "The Alibi of Mr. Wens," S. A. Steeman's Belgian sleuth Mr. Wens (Raymond Rouleau) finds himself accused of murder. In "I Am an Easy Guy," Peter Read More

1952
Le Rideau Rouge

Actors: Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: Playwright Jean Anouilh was the guiding force behind the unorthodox murder mystery Le Rideau Rouge (The Red Curtain) During a provincial theatre production of Macbeth, several tragedies occur. The actors attribute these calamities to the "curse" supposedly hanging over the Shakespeare play, but Read More

1952
Monsieur Taxi

Actors: Michel Simon, Jean Brochard, Jean Carmet, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Slovenly Parisian cabdriver Pierre (Michel Simon) wants nothing more than to get through the day, go home, and knock off a bottle of wine. One day, Pierre looks into the back seat of his cab and finds a huge amount of money. Though he's never really done anything dishonest in his life, he is Read More

1952
Les Deux Verites

Actors: Michel Auclair, Anna Maria Ferrero, Michel Simon, Valentine Tessier

Synopsis: As the title of this French crime melodrama indicates, there's always two sides to the story when murder is involved. The scene is a courtroom, where Louis (Michel Auclair) is on trial for murder. The prosecution claims that Louis deflowered the female victim, forced her into a sordid lifestyle Read More

1952
Le Chemin De Damas

Actors: Michel Simon, Antoine Balpêtré, Maurice Teynac, Jean-Marc Tennberg

1952
Femmes de Paris

Actors: Michel Simon, Henri Genes, Brigitte Auber, Bernard Lajarrige

Synopsis: It all begins when astronomer Charles (Michel Simon) spots a heretofore undiscovered exploding star while peering through his telescope. While calling his colleagues with the news, Charles inadvertently eavesdrops on a young girl, threatening suicide. In the interests of humanity, Charles decides Read More

1952
La Fille Au Fouet

Actors: Michel Simon, Gaby Morlay, Colette Darfeuil

Synopsis: Une Filled au Fouet translates to The Girl with the Whip, which alone was enough to pack 'em in back in 1952. French audiences were treated to a extra added attraction denied most American filmgoers: the title character, a lass named Pietro (Veronique Deschamps), at one point cavorts around in the Read More

1952
La Poison

Actors: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Pauline Carton

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry both wrote and directed the witty black comedy La Poison. This time, however, Guitry does not star in the film, relinquishing that honor to Michel Simon. Through a series of circumstances and plot twists too numerous to mention, an enterprising man (Simon) manages to get away with Read More

1951
La Beauté du Diable

Actors: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valere

Synopsis: La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the "Faust" legend. Clair felt that the beginning and end of the story was perfect, but the middle section, wherein the title character blasphemes the Pope, was "silly." The director Read More

1950
Fabiola

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, Louis Salou, Henri Vidal, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: After several years of wartime austerity, the Italian film industry returned to spectacle with Fabiola. French actress Michele Morgan plays the title role, the daughter of a Roman aristocrat (Michel Simon) during the takeover by Emperor Constantine. As a reaction to Constantine's Christian Read More

3/3/49
Les Amants Du Pont Saint Jean

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Nadine Alari, Michel Simon, Paul Frankeur

1947
The King's Jester

Actors: Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Maria Mercader, Paola Barbara, Doris Duranti

Synopsis: The King's Jester is a non-musical Italian film version of the tragic opera Rigoletto. While we hear no vocal renditions of "Caro Nome" and "La Donna e Mobile", those songs, along with the rest of Verdi's score, can be heard as incidental music. French character actor Michel Simon stars as the Read More

1947
The Story of Tosca

Actors: Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Adriano Rimoldi

Synopsis: In keeping with its title, The Story of Tosca is more beholden to the original Victorien Sardou novel than the Giacomo Puccini opera. Imperio Argentina plays Tosca, the popular singer who falls in love with freedom-fighting Cavaradossi (Rossano Brazzi) during the Napoleonic era. Accused of Read More

1947
La Carcasse Et Le Tord Cou

Actors: Michele Martin, Michel Simon, Lucien Coedel, Madeleine Suffel

1947
Non Coupable

Actors: Michel Simon, Jany Holt, Jean Debucourt, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: Non Coupable translates as Not Guilty, which is definitely not the legal standing of provincial doctor Michel Simon. Already on the outs with the medical establishment because of his heavy drinking, Simon exacerbates the problem by inaugurating a clandestine romance. Things go from worse to worst Read More

1946
La Taverne Du Poisson Couronne

Actors: Michel Simon, Blanchette Brunoy, Jules Berry, Raymond Bussières

1946
Panique

Actors: Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard

Synopsis: For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to adapt Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire, a novel by Georges Simenon. Panique, as Duvivier's version was titled, is a twisted tale of murder, subterfuge and revenge from "Beyond." Read More

1946
Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir

Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Michel Simon, Paul Bernard, Louis Salou

Synopsis: Returning to films after a six-year absence, French director Raymond Bernard called the shots on Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir (A Friend Will Come Tonight). Michel Simon heads the cast of this pulse-pounding WWII resistance film, set surprisingly in an insane asylum. In truth, the establishment is but a Read More

1945
Vautrin

Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Michel Simon, Georges Marchal

Synopsis: Michel Simon stars in this cinemadaptation of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Simon is cast as Vautrin, a Robin Hoodlike thief who tries to restore the fortunes of impoverished nobleman Lucien Chardon (Georges Marchel). Vautrin's scheme involves the fleecing of the Baron de Nuncingen (Louis Read More

1943
Au Bonheur Des Dames

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Suzy Prim, Michel Simon, Albert Prejean

Synopsis: Andre Cayatte's Shop Girls of Paris was originally released in 1943 as Au Bonheur des Dames. Adapted from a novel by Emile Zola, the story is a surprisingly contemporary one. When the first major department store is established in Paris, everyone is delighted -- everyone except the Mom-and-Pop Read More

1943
Una Signora Dell'Ovest

Synopsis: This film is the first western ever made in Italy. It tells the tale of a young saloon dancer who inadvertently gets romantically involved with the man who killed her husband and framed her recent lover. She accepts his advances until she learns the truth. She then returns to her lover and Read More

1942
Paris - New York

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Michel Simon, Claude Dauphin, Giselle Preville

Synopsis: Paris-New York is set aboard the French luxury liner Normandie, and it goes without saying that the story takes place before that great ship went down in New York Harbor. Most of the passengers in this seafaring "Grand Hotel" are en route to the Big Apple to attend the 1939 World's Fair Read More

1940
La Comedie Du Bonheur

Actors: Michel Simon, Louis Jourdan, Jacqueline Delubac, Micheline Presle

1940
La Tosca

Actors: Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: This troubled film version of the Puccini opera was begun by Jean Renoir while lecturing in Italy at the invitation of dictator Benito Mussolini. After only a few scenes had been shot, Italy entered WW II and Renoir had to flee, leaving his assistant Carl Koch to complete the film. The familiar Read More

1940
Circonstances Attenuantes

Actors: Arletty, Michel Simon, Dorville, Andrex, Mila Parély

Synopsis: Circonstance Attenuantes (Circumstantial Evidence) stars Michel Simon as a judge known as Le Sentencier because of his stern adherence to the letter of the law. In private life, however, the judge is hardly a bastion of severity, concocting an elaborate excuse to visit his mistress while on Read More

1939
La Fin du Jour

Actors: Michel Simon, Madeleine Ozeray, Louis Jouvet, Gabrielle Dorziat, Victor Francen

Synopsis: This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home. The home is almost bankrupt and so the actors must support themselves. The residents include a faded sex symbol, an intellectual actor who kept a great distance between Read More

1939
Cavalcade D'Amour

Actors: Janine Darcey, Simone Simon, Claude Dauphin, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire Read More

1939
Le Dernier Tournant

Actors: Fernand Gravey, Corinne Luchaire, Michel Simon, Florence Marly

Synopsis: Long before James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice was filmed by MGM, there were two intriguing foreign versions, one (unauthorized) from Italy and the other from France. The French version, directed by Pierre Chenal, was titled Le Dernier Tournant and released in English-speaking Read More

1939
Fric Frac

Actors: Arletty, Michel Simon, Marcel Vallee, Fernandel

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll. Unknown to the assistant, she is awaiting her lover's release. His relationship with the moll gets him involved with another who leads him into the burglary of his boss's store Read More

1939
Les Musiciens Du Ciel

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, René Lefèvre, Auguste Boverio

Synopsis: Returning to the screen after a lengthy absence, Rene Lefevre co-stars in this adaptation of his own novel Musiciens du Ciel (Musicians of the Sky). Michele Morgan plays an attractive Salvation Army worker who takes special interest in blind street musician Lefevre. In truth, the "sightless" hero Read More

1939
Les Nouveaux Riches

Actors: Betty Stockfeld, Raimu, Michel Simon

1938
Eusebe Depute

Actors: Elvire Popesco, Marguerite Moreno, Michel Simon, Jules Berry

1938
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Missing from St. Agil) would be worth watching if only for the chop-licking performance by Erich von Stroheim. The story takes place at a typical French boys' school, where director Aime Clairond pursues the not-so-typical pastime of turning out counterfeit bank notes. Read More

1938
Le Ruisseau

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Ginette Leclerc

Synopsis: Le Ruisseau (The Stream) begins as orphan girl Gaby Sylvia escapes from her guardians and stows away on board a ship. She is discovered by officer Paul Cambo, thereby launching a brief shipboard affair. Feeling a bit guilty about taking advantage of the girl's naivete, Cambo sends the girl to live Read More

1938
Port of Shadows

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin. Having deserted the French army, Gabin ducks into a back alley and meets the lovely Michelle Morgan. He becomes her champion by taking on her evil "protectors" (Michel Read More

1938
The Kiss of Fire

Actors: Mireille Balin, Viviane Romance, Tino Rossi, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Naples au Baiser de Feu (The Kiss of Fire) was one of several films made in France by veteran Italian director Augusto Genina. Tito Rossi plays Mario, a Neapolitan cabaret singer who is tired of his life and hopes to settle down into a domestic existence with Assunta (Mirielle Balin) his boss' Read More

1938
Belle Etoile

Actors: Meg Lemonnier, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont

1938
Boulot Aviateur

Actors: Marguerite Moreno, Robert Arnoux, Michel Simon

1937
Mirages

Actors: Jeanne Aubert, Arletty, Michel Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault

1937
La Bataille Silencieuse

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Michel Simon

1937
Choc En Retour

Actors: Janine Crispin, Marcelle Praince, Michel Simon, Rene Lefebvre

1937
Moutonnet

Actors: Janine Crispin, Suzy Prim, Noël-Noël, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Moutonnet is a dim-witted French peasant, played by Noel-Noel. Merac is a sarcastic stage comedian, also played by Noel-Noel. During WWI, Merac's life is saved on the battlefield by Moutonnet. Seventeen years later, Merac returns the favor by starring in a picture based on Moutonnet's life. The Read More

1936
Sous Les Yeux De L'Occident

Actors: Madeleine Suffel, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Fresnay, Michel Simon, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Joseph Conrad, Sous les Yeux D'Occident (Under Western Eyes) is set in Russia during the Revolution. Haldin (Jean-Louis Barrault), an assassin for a terrorist organization, hides out in the home of his friend Razumov (Pierre Fresnay). Not wishing to be arrested himself Read More

1936
Le Mort En Fuite

Actors: Marie Glory, Jules Berry, Michel Simon

1936
Drôle de Drame

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel

Synopsis: In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just walked out, the writer's wife hides out from the vicar, taking care of the cooking Read More

1936
Jeunes Filles De Paris

Actors: Mireille Balin, Nadia Sibirskaia, Michel Simon, Paul Azäis

1936
Les Jumeaux de Brighton

Actors: Suzy Prim, Raimu, Michel Simon

1936
Ademai Au Moyen Age

Actors: Suzy Vernon, Marguerite Pierry, Noël-Noël, Michel Simon

1935
Le Bonheur

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Paulette Dubost, Charles Boyer, Michel Simon, Jaque Catelain

Synopsis: Released in English-speaking countries as Happiness, Le Bonheur was based on a play by Henry Bernstein. Charles Boyer stars as a fervent anarchist who vows to kill anyone who represents "the establishment." As a result, he ends up shooting idolized music-hall singer Gaby Morlay in full view of her Read More

1935
Amants Et Voleurs

Actors: Arletty, Pierre Blanchar, Michel Simon

1935
Le Bebe De L'Escadron

Actors: Paulette Dubost, Suzy Prim, Michel Simon, Pierre Larquey

1935
L'Atalante

Actors: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Louis Lefebvre, Gilles Margaritis

Synopsis: The most acclaimed (and sentimental) film in Jean Vigo's short career. L'Atalante is the name of the barge owned by Jean (Jean Daste), who marries the lovely Juliette (Dita Parlo) at the film's beginning. Juliette comes to live aboard the barge, for Jean makes his living on the Seine. The Read More

1934
Lac Aux Dames

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Vladimir Sokoloff, Rosine Derean, Michel Simon, Simone Simon, Illa Meery

Synopsis: Marc Allegret's Lac Aux Dames (Ladies' Lake) boasts an impressive pedigree, having been adapted by novelist Collette from a book by Vicki Baum. A very young and dazzlingly handsome Jean-Pierre Aumont plays an unemployed engineer who lands a job as a lifeguard at a Tyrolean resort. Boasting a most Read More

1933
Miquette Et Sa Mere

Actors: Blanche Montel, Roland Toutain, Michel Simon

1933
Du Haut en Bas

Actors: Janine Crispin, Milly Mathis, Jean Gabin, Mauricet

Synopsis: This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored by an unemployed teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
Boudu Saved from Drowning

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcella Hainia, Jean Gehret, Severine Lerczynska

Synopsis: Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor by turning the household upside down and by Read More

11/11/32
Baleydier

Actors: Josseline Gael, Michel Simon, Gaillard

Synopsis: The inimitable Michel Simon stars as Baleydier, a dishevelled dimwit who works as a hairdresser's assistant. Through an incredible bit of dumb luck, Baleydier wins a contest which assures him a role in an upcoming motion picture. Given his choice of storylines, our hero is talked into playing a Read More

1932
On Purge Bebé

Actors: Michel Simon, Marguerite Pierry

1931
Jean de la Lune

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Suzet Mais, Constant Remy, Rene Lefebvre, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Flower-shop owner Clo-Clo (Michel Simon) is known to his friends as "Jean de la Lune" ("Moondreaming John") because he fantasizes about remaking the world to his own specifications. Falling in love with Marceline (Madeline Renaud), a girl who's "been around," Clo-Clo idealizes his sweetheart Read More

1931
La Chienne

Actors: Michel Simon, Janie Mareze, Georges Flamant, Magdelaine Berubet, Roger Gaillard, Jean Gehret

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's first sound film was a bitter and highly controversial psychological drama, so controversial that it was never shown in the United States until 1975, 44 years after its original French release. Maurice (Michel Simon) is a meek bank clerk trapped in a marriage with a harridan named Read More

1931
Tire Au Flanc

Actors: Felix Oudart, Michel Simon

1929
The Passion of Joan of Arc

Actors: Renée Maria Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, Antonin Artaud, Ravet, Maurice Schutz, André Berley

Synopsis: The Passion of Joan of Arc (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is widely regarded as Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's finest achievement and one of the greatest films of all time. Dreyer recreates the trial and execution of St. Joan with near-documentary authenticity, as if one were present at the Read More

1928
L'Inconnue Des Six Jours

Actors: Tania Fedor, Christiane Yves, Michel Simon

1926
Feu Mathias Pascal

Actors: Lois Moran, Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Originally released in 1926 in hand-tinted prints, for years this silent classic, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1937) was only available in low-quality and incomplete black-and-white prints. It was restored by the Cinémathèque Française and was re-released in 1990. Pirandello's Read More

1925

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