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Michel Simon
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9 April 1895 - 30 May 1975
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French actor Michel Simon was born in 1895 in Geneva (Switzerland) and in the same year was invented cinema. He was the son of a butcher, but he did not hurry to become the successor of the dynasty. At the beginning of the First World War, Michel was drafted into the Swiss army, but turned out to be a very undisciplined soldier and, in addition, fell ill with tuberculosis, after which he was commissioned. Then he tried to become a photographer, a boxer, hit the politics, joined the anarchists, was
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French actor Michel Simon was born in 1895 in Geneva (Switzerland) and in the same year was invented cinema. He was the son of a butcher, but he did not hurry to become the successor of the dynasty. At the beginning of the First World War, Michel was drafted into the Swiss army, but turned out to be a very undisciplined soldier and, in addition, fell ill with tuberculosis, after which he was commissioned. Then he tried to become a photographer, a boxer, hit the politics, joined the anarchists, was a handyman at the construction site. In 1920, he successfully debuted on stage in the troupe of Sasha Pitoev, and in 1923 he moved to Paris.
He made his silent film debut in 1925 in The Late Matthias Pascal. Next role - the role of a member of the court in the film by K. Dreyer
"The Passion of Joan of Arc" It was removed in 1928. The actor was also known to French theatergoers - in 1929 he participated in the comedy production of Marcel Aschard "Jean of the Moon", where he played the role of Clo-Clo. Michelle Simon participated in the film adaptation of this play.
One of his friends was director Jean Renoir, with whom he starred in two famous films: Bitch, which was released in 1931.
"I'll be rescued from the waters" The filming of which ended in 1932. Another role that brought fame to Michel is the role of a sailor in Jean Vigo’s magnificent film Atlantis, shot in 1934. Not gone unnoticed and his priest, secretly sprouting police novels in the film Marcel Carnet "Strange drama" (1937). The following year, he starred in another film of this director - in "Mist Embankment", where he played the nasty Zabel, encroaching on the love of the main character of the film. During these years, film critics talked about Michel Simon as an amazing master of the grotesque.
In the 1950s, the actor became seriously ill, he was paralyzed part of the face and body, however, overcoming the disease, he continued to act. For the main role in the film directed by Claude Berry “The Old Man and the Child” Michel Simon in 1967 was awarded the prize of the Berlin Film Festival. His last films were The House (1970).
"Blanche" (1971), The Most Beautiful Evening of My Life (1972), The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (1975), and The Red Ibis (1975). The actor died on May 30, 1975 at the age of 80 in Brie-sur-Marne (France). /