Biography: life and films
Simone Simon was a French actress whose birth name was Simone Thérèse Fernande Simone. She was born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France on 23rd April 1910 and died in Paris, France on 22nd February 2005, aged 94.Her best films as an actor include Marc Allégret's Lac aux dames (1934), Jean Renoir's La Bête humaine (1938), William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Jacques Tourneur's thriller Cat People (1942) and Gunther von Fritsch's The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
Simone Simon appeared in 38 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Marc Allégret (5 films), Viktor Tourjansky (2), Max Ophüls (2) and Carmine Gallone (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (19 films), comedy (10), comedy-drama (8), romance (7), comedy-romance (5), Horror (3), Fantasy (3) and War (2).
Our average rating for Simone Simon over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Durand contre Durand (1931) [a]
Le Chanteur inconnu (1931) [a]
On opère sans douleur (1931) [a]
La Petite chocolatière (1932) [a]
Le Roi des palaces (1932) [a]
Pour vivre heureux (1932) [a]
Un fils d'Amérique (1932) [a]
L'Étoile de Valencia (1933) [a]
Prenez garde à la peinture (1933) [a]
Le Voleur (1934) [a]
Les Beaux jours (1935) [a]
Girls' Dormitory (1936) [a]
Ladies in Love (1936) [a]
Love and Hisses (1937) [a]
Seventh Heaven (1937) [a]
Josette (1938) [a]
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) [a]
Tahiti Honey (1943) [a]
Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944) [a]
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) [a]
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) [a]
Pétrus (1946) [a]
Temptation Harbour (1947) [a]
Donne senza nome (1950) [a]
La Ronde (1950) [a]
Olivia (1951) [a]
Das Zweite Leben (1954) [a]
I tre ladri (1955) [a]
The Extra Day (1956) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
The very best of the French New Wave
