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name: "François Simon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francois-simon"
fi1m_id: "francois-simon"
imdb_id: "nm0800143"
tmdb_id: 544244
wikidata_id: "Q117412"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 August 1917"
died: "5 October 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:42:17.621650+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# François Simon

## Identity

François Simon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francois-simon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francois-simon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0800143
- **TMDB ID:** 544244
- **Wikidata ID:** Q117412
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Simon_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800143/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544244

Actor. Born 16 August 1917 in Genève, Switzerland. Died 5 October 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 August 1917, Genève, Switzerland
- **Died:** 5 October 1982
- **Also known as:** Michel Simon Fils, Michel François
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Simon_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800143/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/544244

## Biography

François Simon (16 August 1917 – 5 October 1982) was a Swiss stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1936 and 1982. He was the son of the actor Michel Simon.

Simon began his career in the theatre in Paris with Charles Dullin and Georges Pitoëff. His film roles include Monsieur Leguen in *To Die of Love* (1971), Docteur Godiveau in *La Femme flic* (1980), and Don Traiella in *Christ Stopped at Eboli* (1979).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Christ Stopped at Eboli* (1979), Fi1m 85, as Don Traiella — [page](https://film.one/film/christ-stopped-at-eboli.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Basileus Quartet* (1983), as Oscar Guarneri
- *La Femme flic* (1980), as Docteur Godiveau
- *Christ Stopped at Eboli* (1979), as Don Traiella — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/christ-stopped-at-eboli.md)
- *Judith Therpauve* (1978), as Claude Hirsch-Balland
- *The Suspended Vocation* (1978), as La Montagne
- *Alzire or the New Continent* (1978), as Voltaire
- *Violanta* (1978), as Simon
- *The Roads of Exile* (1978), as Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- *Lumière* (1976), as Grégoire
- *Les Grands Détectives* (1975), series, as Le préfet de police
- *Death of the Flea Circus Director* (1975), as Ottocaro Weiss
- *Flesh of the Orchid* (1975), as Joszef Berekian
- *The Purloined Letter* (1974), as The prefect of police
- *Président Faust* (1974), as Le Diable
- *The Invitation* (1973), as Emile
- *Les Gens de Mogador* (1972), series, as Alfred Angellier
- *Les nénuphars* (1972), as 'Cigare'
- *Body of Love* (1972), as Giacomo, The Father
- *Arsène Lupin* (1971), series, as M. Bonatti
- *To Die of Love* (1971), as Mr. Leguen
- *The Madman* (1971), as George Plond
- *The Killer Strikes at Dawn* (1970), as Le juge d'instruction Forman
- *Charles, Dead or Alive* (1970), as Charles Dé
- *The Zürrer Bakery* (1957), as Marcel Piboulot
- *Extenuating Circumstances* (1939), as 'La Poupée', accordionist
- *Fric-Frac* (1939), as (uncredited)
- *Under Western Eyes* (1936), as Unnamed Character

## Gallery

- ![François Simon](https://film.one/media/person/3922800/gallery-ff8a3d25e98d.jpg) François Simon — Thomas Koerfer, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Francois_Simon_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![François Simon](https://film.one/media/person/3922800/gallery-2f101b09aa6f.jpg) François Simon — Image via TMDB
- ![François Simon](https://film.one/media/person/3922800/gallery-fa3f12117c95.jpg) François Simon — Image via TMDB

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