Simone Signoret
Birthday: Born in 1921-03-25 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Deathday: 1985-09-30
Simone Signoret (born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simone Signoret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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General Electric Theater
Character: Woman
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations....
Thérèse Humbert
Character: Thérèse Humbert
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The Oscars
Character: Self
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar....
What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions....
Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
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Madame le Juge
Character: Élisabeth Massot
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Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Apostrophes
Character: Self
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-...
Cinépanorama
Character: Self
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Reflets de Cannes
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov....
Diabolique
Character: Nicole Horner
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears....
The Witches of Salem
Character: Elizabeth Proctor
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality....
The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: Eliane Darès, l'actrice éventée (Victime #4)
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims....
Is Paris Burning?
Character: Cafe Owner
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces....
Ship of Fools
Character: La Condesa
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are....
The Burned Barns
Character: Rose Cateux
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder....
The Cat
Character: Clémence Bouin
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger....
Against the Wind
Character: Michèle Denis
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information....
Gunman in the Streets
Character: Denise Vernon
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France....
Death in the Garden
Character: Djin
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown....
Madame Rosa
Character: Madame Rosa
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise n...
The Deadly Affair
Character: Elsa Fennan
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant ...
The Confession
Character: Lise (Mme L. / Lise London)
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers....
Room at the Top
Character: Alice Aisgill
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman....
Police Python 357
Character: Thérèse Ganay
A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay, who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese, who is handicapped. Sylvia is found murdered, and Ferrot is assigned to investigate; Ferrot is convinced that Ganay killed Sylvia because she wan...
Army of Shadows
Character: Mathilde
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust....
Adua and Her Friends
Character: Adua
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past....
The Lovely Month of May
Character: Narrator (English version) (voice)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom....
Impasse of Two Angels
Character: Anne-Marie / Marianne
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved....
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Character: Louise Martin
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person....
Naked Autumn
Character: Roberte
Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One....
Thérèse Raquin
Character: Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law, it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up....
Casque d'Or
Character: Marie
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang....
La Ronde
Character: Léocadie, la prostitutée
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life....
Shadow and Light
Character: Isabelle Leritz
A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house....
Flesh of the Orchid
Character: Lady Vamos
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers....
A Grin Without a Cat
Character: Narrator (voice)
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America....
Prince Charming
Character:
Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man....
The Devil's Envoys
Character: Extra (uncredited)
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants....
The Benefactor
Character: Newspaper secretary (uncredited)
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities....
Adieu Léonard
Character: Gypsy (uncredited)
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot....
Term of Trial
Character: Anna Weir
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated....
Angel of the Night
Character: Une étudiante (uncredited)
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside....
Le mort ne reçoit plus
Character:
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy ...
Box of Dreams
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals....
The Ideal Couple
Character: Annette
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President....
The Widow Couderc
Character: la veuve Couderc
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit....
Games
Character: Lisa Schindler
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other....
The Day and the Hour
Character: Thérèse Dutheil
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the g...
Le Traqué
Character: Denise Vernon
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van....
Without Leaving an Address
Character: Une journaliste au journal (uncredited)
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address....
The North Star
Character: Mme Louise Baron
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train...
Back Streets of Paris
Character: Gisèle
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America....
Dedee
Character: Dédée, une entraîneuse soutenue par Marco
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness....
Simone Signoret, un chat est un chat
Character: elle même
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Simone Signoret, de Simone Kaminker à Madame Signoret
Character: Simone Signoret
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The Sea Gull
Character: Irina Arkadina
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century....
Fantômas
Character: Hélène
The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activities. With a young journalist, her fiancé, she discovers his hideout....
The Adolescent
Character: Mamie
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother....
Septembre Chilien
Character: Narrator
Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound solidarity with the socialist cause, Muel and his team showed great courage to mix the official registration of images with those triumphant, clandestine, of the nascent opposition....
The Cheat
Character: Dora
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother....
Guy de Maupassant
Character: Maupassant's mother
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant....
Rude journée pour la reine
Character: Jeanne
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety sh...
Boléro
Character: Une employée de maison de couture
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces....
Swiss Tour
Character: Yvonne
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland....
The Wind Rose
Character:
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world....
Terrorists in Retirement
Character: Narrator (voice)
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tr...
Langlois
Character: Self
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....
Judith Therpauve
Character: Judith Therpauve
A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure....
Dawn Devils
Character: Lily, cabaret owner
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past....
Night Shift
Character: La danseuse à la taverne
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel....
Famous Love Affairs
Character: Jenny de Lacour
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis....
The Shortest Day
Character: Contadina
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle....
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Character: Extra (uncredited)
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while....
Countdown to Vengeance
Character: Léa
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François....
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Character: Self - Interviewee
Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public....
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Making 'The Misfits'
Character: Self (archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961)....
Simone Signoret, figure libre
Character: (archive footage)
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The American
Character: Léone
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends....
Sweet and Sour
Character: Madame Geneviève
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité....
Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
In January 1960, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, one of the most famous star couples of the day, were on tour in the United States. Yves Montand had just triumphed on the country's biggest stages. Simone Signoret, who had distinguished herself in "Room at the Top", was about to win an Oscar. It was then that they met Arthur Miller, a writer and playwright but above all, at the time, the husband of Marilyn Monroe, a world star at the height of her fame and beauty. Yves Montand and Marilyn Monro...
Yves Montand is Singing
Character:
The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956....
Le Parti du cinéma
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Manifesto of the 121
Character: Self (archive footage)
On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the Algerian FLN independence activists. But after a few days, the situation was reversed and the trial transformed into a political arena, it was the government, the army, their policy, it was the entire Algerian war whose trial began. Accused, witnesses, lawyers, overflowing a stunned court, transformed the courtroom into a tribune of the opposition. ...