Michel Simon: movies and TV shows
Michel Simon has 129 credits in the archive: 121 films and 8 TV series, from 1924 to 2022. Highest rated: Spécial cinéma (9.5/10).
Career timeline
1924 – 2022 · busiest year: 1939 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Belmondo: The Incorrigible | Film | 8.2 | 127 | |
| 2021 | Morceaux de Cannes | Film | 2.0 | 126 | |
| 2021 | René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu | Lui-même | Film | — | 126 |
| 2019 | Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 124 |
| 2012 | The Bardot mystery | Film | 10.0 | 117 | |
| 2012 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo | Self | Film | 7.3 | 117 |
| 2007 | Arletty, Lady Paname | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 112 |
| 2001 | Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé | Le père Jules (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 106 |
| 1978 | Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) | TV | 9.0 | 83 |
| 1977 | Journey Through History | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 82 |
| 1975 | The Red Ibis | Zizi | Film | 5.6 | 80 |
| 1975 | The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan | Erotologist | Film | 5.0 | 80 |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) | TV | 9.5 | 79 |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV | 8.0 | 77 |
| 1972 | Blanche | Master | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 1972 | The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Attorney Zorn | Film | 7.2 | 77 |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self | TV | 6.0 | 76 |
| 1970 | Let's Have a Riot | Cavazza | Film | 7.1 | 75 |
| 1970 | The House | Louis Compiegne | Film | 10.0 | 75 |
| 1968 | The Marriage Came Tumbling Down | Le vieux Jéricho | Film | 6.7 | 73 |
| 1967 | The Two of Us | Pépé | Film | 7.6 | 72 |
| 1967 | La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire | Un récitant | Film | — | 72 |
| 1967 | Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur | Self - Interviewee | Film | 8.3 | 72 |
| 1966 | Two Hours to Kill | Locker Attendant | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1965 | Dim Dam Dom | Self | TV | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1965 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry | Self - Interviewee | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 1964 | The Train | Papa Boul | Film | 7.6 | 69 |
| 1964 | Cyrano and d'Artagnan | Le Grognard | Film | 5.9 | 69 |
| 1964 | Michel Simon | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 1963 | Ecco | Self | Film | 4.8 | 68 |
| 1962 | The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Jérôme Chambard | Film | 5.6 | 67 |
| 1962 | Emile's Boat | Charles-Edmond Larmentiel | Film | 6.6 | 67 |
| 1960 | Austerlitz | Alboise | Film | 6.6 | 65 |
| 1960 | Pete the Tender | Pierrot | Film | 5.7 | 65 |
| 1960 | Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 1959 | Discorama | Self | TV | 8.0 | 64 |
| 1959 | The Head | Prof. Dr. Abel | Film | 5.1 | 64 |
| 1958 | It Happened in Broad Daylight | Jacquier | Film | 7.4 | 63 |
| 1958 | A Certain Mr. Jo | Joseph "Jo" Guardini | Film | 4.5 | 63 |
| 1957 | Three Make a Pair | Commissaire Bernard | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self | TV | 8.7 | 61 |
| 1956 | Mémoires d'un flic | Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1956 | La joyeuse prison | Benoit, chief guard | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1955 | The Impossible Mr. Pipelet | Maurice Martin, concierge d'immeuble | Film | 6.0 | 60 |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self | TV | 5.0 | 59 |
| 1954 | Hungarian Rhapsody | General von Sayn-Wittgenstein | Film | 10.0 | 59 |
| 1954 | The Anatomy of Love | Padre Silvio | Film | 6.4 | 59 |
| 1954 | At the Order of the Czar | Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein | Film | 9.0 | 59 |
| 1954 | Strange Desire of Mr. Bard | Auguste Bard | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1953 | The Virtuous Scoundrel | Albert Ménard-Lacoste / Alain Ménard-Lacoste | Film | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1953 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | Film | 6.7 | 58 |
| 1953 | Saadia | Bou Rezza | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 1953 | Femmes de Paris | Professor Charles Buisson | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1952 | Full House | Commissioner Jules Maigret (segment "Le témoignage d'un enfant de choeur") | Film | 6.9 | 57 |
| 1952 | The Girl with the Whip | Le tuteur | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 1952 | Crimson Curtain | Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo | Film | 6.6 | 57 |
| 1952 | Hôtel des Invalides | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 57 |
| 1952 | Mister Taxi | Pierre Verger, « Monsieur Taxi » | Film | 6.4 | 57 |
| 1952 | The Road to Damascus | Caïphe | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1951 | Poison | Paul Louis Victor Braconnier | Film | 7.2 | 56 |
| 1951 | The Two Truths | Cidoni | Film | 9.0 | 56 |
| 1950 | The Beauty of the Devil | Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1949 | Fabiola | Senator Fabius Severus | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1948 | La Carcasse et le Tord-cou | Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou' | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1947 | The Crowned Fish Tavern | Captain Palmer | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1947 | Panic | Monsieur Hire | Film | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1947 | Not Guilty | Doctor Michel Ancelin | Film | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1947 | The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean | Alcide Garonne | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1946 | A Friend Will Come Tonight | Michel Lemaret | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1943 | Vautrin the Thief | Vautrin | Film | 7.9 | 48 |
| 1943 | Shop Girls of Paris | Baudu | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 1942 | Girl of the Golden West | Butler | Film | 6.5 | 47 |
| 1941 | Tosca | Il barone Scarpia | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1941 | The King's Jester | Rigoletto | Film | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1941 | The King's Jester | Film | 7.0 | 46 | |
| 1940 | Comedy of Happiness | Monsieur Jourdain | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1940 | Paris - New-York | Inspector Boucheron | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1940 | The Musicians of the Sky | Le capitaine Simon | Film | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1939 | Extenuating Circumstances | Mr. Gaetan Le Sentencier | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1939 | Fric-Frac | Jo | Film | 6.1 | 44 |
| 1939 | Deputy Eusèbe | Eusèbe Bonbonneau | Film | 10.0 | 44 |
| 1939 | Cocoanut | Josserand | Film | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1939 | Cavalcade of Love | Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret | Film | 5.8 | 44 |
| 1939 | The End of the Day | Ernest Cabrissade, eternal understudy | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1939 | The Last Turning | Nick Marino | Film | 6.5 | 44 |
| 1939 | Behind the Facade | Picking, knife-throwing artist | Film | 7.7 | 44 |
| 1938 | Beautiful Star | Léon | Film | 8.3 | 43 |
| 1938 | The Stream | Counr Edouard de Bourgogne, aka 'L'Escargot' | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1938 | Mother Love | Michel Quercy | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1938 | Mirages | Michel | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1938 | The New Rich | Martinet | Film | 8.5 | 43 |
| 1938 | Port of Shadows | Zabel | Film | 7.4 | 43 |
| 1938 | Boys' School | Lemel, le professeur de dessin | Film | 7.4 | 43 |
| 1937 | Bizarre, Bizarre | Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel | Film | 6.9 | 42 |
| 1937 | Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Michel | Film | 4.8 | 42 |
| 1937 | La Bataille silencieuse | Sauvin | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1937 | Le Choc en retour | Laverdac | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 1937 | Boulot aviateur | Baron Gobèche | Film | 10.0 | 42 |
| 1936 | Let's Make a Dream | Un Invité (Prologue) | Film | 6.9 | 41 |
| 1936 | The Twins of Brighton | Labrosse | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1936 | The Fleeing Dead | Achille Baluchet | Film | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1936 | Under Western Eyes | Lespara | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1936 | Moutonnet | Frècheville | Film | 9.0 | 41 |
| 1936 | Girls of Paris | Baron de Beaupoil / his brother | Film | 5.5 | 41 |
| 1935 | Lovers and Thieves | Doizeau | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1935 | Adémaï au Moyen Âge | Lord Pickwickdam | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1935 | A Bum Deal | Boudu | Film | — | 40 |
| 1935 | Le Bébé de l'escadron | Perrot-Joly | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1934 | L'Atalante | Père Jules | Film | 7.5 | 39 |
| 1934 | Léopold le bien-aimé | Film | 9.0 | 39 | |
| 1934 | Le Bonheur | Noël Malpiaz | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1934 | Ladies Lake | Oscar Lyssenhop | Film | 4.1 | 39 |
| 1933 | Miquette and Her Mother | Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1933 | High and Low | M. Bodeletz | Film | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1932 | Baleydier | Film | 9.0 | 37 | |
| 1932 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Priape Boudu | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 1932 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Film | 6.9 | 37 | |
| 1931 | La Chienne | Maurice Legrand | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1931 | Jean of the Moon | Jean de la Lune | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1931 | Jean of the Moon | Film | 6.5 | 36 | |
| 1931 | Baby's Laxative | Chouilloux | Film | 5.8 | 36 |
| 1930 | Illegitimate Child | Lorédan | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1929 | Pivoine | Film | 6.8 | 34 | |
| 1928 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Jean Lemaître | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1928 | The Sad Sack | Joseph Turlot | Film | 6.7 | 33 |
| 1925 | The Late Mathias Pascal | Jérôme Pomino | Film | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1925 | The Vocation of André Carel | Gaston Lebeau | Film | 5.6 | 30 |
| 1924 | The Gallery of Monsters | Film | 7.8 | 29 | |
| Les Deux Réalités | Cidoni | Film | 6.3 | — |