Simone Signoret
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: March 25, 1921
Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Germany
Known For
Manifesto of the 121
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. The trial coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto of the 121" on the right to insubordination, signed among others by Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Pierre Boulez, René Dumont, François Chatelet…
Apostrophes
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-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Terrorists in Retirement
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, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Simone Signoret, figure libre
The Lovely Month of May
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.
Swiss Tour
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
Le Grand Échiquier
Cinépanorama
Diabolique
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.
Army of Shadows
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.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as elle même
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Simone Signoret
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Yvonne Pierre
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator (voice)
as Thérèse Humbert
as Maupassant's mother
as Mme Louise Baron
as Self
as Louise Martin
as Mamie
as Judith Therpauve
as Élisabeth Massot
as Narrator (voice)
as Madame Rosa
as Thérèse Ganay
as Lady Vamos
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Jeanne
as Rose Cateux
as Narrator
as Self
as la veuve Couderc
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Clémence Bouin
as Self
as Lise
as Léa
as Léone
as Mathilde
as Irina Arkadina
as Lisa Schindler
as Elsa Fennan
as Cafe Owner
as Eliane Darès, l'actrice éventée (Victime #4)
as La Condesa
as (Archive Footage)
as Madame Geneviève
as Narrator (English version) (voice)
as Thérèse Dutheil
as Contadina
as Anna Weir
as Jenny de Lacour
as Roberte
as Adua
as Alice Aisgill
as Elizabeth Proctor
as Self
as Jeanine (archive footage)
as Djin
as Self
as Janine Alix
as Nicole Horner
as Self
as Thérèse Raquin
as Self
as Woman
as Marie
as Isabelle Leritz
as Une journaliste au journal (uncredited)
as Self (Archive Footage)
as Denise Vernon
as Denise Vernon
as Léocadie, la prostitutée
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Yvonne
as Dora
as Anne-Marie / Marianne
as Dédée, une entraîneuse soutenue par Marco
as Michèle Denis
as Hélène
as Gisèle
as Lily, cabaret owner
as Annette
as Woman (uncredited)
as Dancer at the tavern (uncredited)
as Liliane Moraccini
as Une étudiante (uncredited)
as Gypsy (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)
as Newspaper secretary (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Une employée de maison de couture