Michel Simon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Michel Simon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Michel Simon (French: [simÉ"̃]; 9 April 1895 â€" 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 actor François Simon is

his son.Simon used to say about himself that he was born in 1895 and,

"as misfortune never comes singly, cinema was born the same year".Son

of a Catholic sausage maker and a Protestant housewife mother, Simon

soon left his family and decided to go to Paris, where he first lived

at the Hotel Renaissance, Saint-Martin Street, then in Montmartre. He

worked many different jobs to survive, such as giving boxing lessons

or peddling smuggled lighters. He devoured every book he could find,

with special preference for Georges Courteline's writings.
Michel Simon Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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