Still of Ivan Mozzhukhin and Michel Simon in Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Caption: Still of Ivan Mozzhukhin and Michel Simon in Feu Mathias Pascal (1926)
Actor, Writer, Soundtrack
Born: April 9, 1895
Star sign: Aries
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Known for: L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Source: IMDB
The son of a sausage-maker, Michel Simon was conscripted into the Swiss Army at the start of World War I, but was thrown out through a combination of tuberculosis and general insubordination. He was variously a boxer, photographer, general handyman and right-wing anarchist, finally becoming a stage actor in Geneva in 1920. His reputation soon grew...