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Sim

Acting
Known For

83 Years Old

Sim (born Simon Jacques Eugène Berryer; 21 July 1926 – 6 September 2009) was a French comedian, actor and writer. He was part of the team on Les Grosses Têtes, a radio and TV programme. He also played the part of Geriatrix in the films Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar and Astérix at the Olympic Games. Simon Jacques Eugène was born on 21 July 1926 to engineer Henri Berryer and his wife Marie-Thérèse (née Bonnemazou). At the time of his birth, Henri was an electrician for the director Abel Gance and grip on the film Napoléon. The family lived in a small flat in the Rue du Fer-à-Moulin, a cinema district in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, where Simon spent the most part of his earliest years at flats 26, then 28. Very early on, his Russian uncle working at Synchro-Standard took Berryer to see the first talking pictures, which he would remember all his life. In 1936, the family moved to Nantes when Berryer senior found work as a technician at Le Majestic cinema (later L'Olympic, then La Fabrique). At the age of eleven, Barryer founded a comedy group called "Sim-Art".(age fourteen, according to other sources). In 1939, with his friend Jojo, Sim got his first award in a funny face competition organised on 15 August at Saint-Julien-de-Concelles. Age fourteen, they played truant and performed sketches in a cellar, with fake letters to their school justifying their absence. Simon later studied at De Launey technical college in Nantes. In 1941 his parents took over a cinema, L'Éden, in the small town of Ancenis (between Nantes and Angers). The family moved from Nantes to Ancenis en 1942 and reopened the cinema. Sim continued his studies at the Joubert d'Ancenis lycée and worked as projectionist in the family business. In 1946, the Berryer family stopped working at the Ancenis to start a film distribution company at Rennes, without success. The Berryer parents returned to Ancenis but Sim – now married – stayed in Rennes as a projectionist at Le Royal. This venue also staged musical performances, so Sim saw performances from Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Henri Salvador, Maurice Chevalier, among others. He practiced his comedy, alone, after the performances. He won a contract as a humorous singer in a ballroom. He was spotted by Étienne Perrin, with whom he performed a comic clown act Etty et Balta. At the end of 1953, he toured as a comic song act in the Paris cabaret clubs, often in drag, as at Madame Arthur in Montmartre. He also worked at the Crazy Horse Saloon as a dresser. This stage of his career would be resurrected in Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! by Michel Audiard, where he plays a schoolteacher who has a spare-time drag act. In the 1960s, he was part of Jean Nohain's team producing animated children's television, and performed the Baronne de la Tronche-en-Biais in a Guy Lux production. In the 1970s he was part of many televised sketch shows. He also performed comic sketches and songs with humourist Édouard Caillau on RTBF's Chansons à la carte. In France, he was a regular performer in short comic sketches, often in costume, on Guy Lux's programmes. ... Source: Article "Sim (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Born

Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées, France on 21st July 1926

Died

6th September 2009

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Sacrée soirée Image
Sacrée soirée
Self
Midi Première Image
Midi Première
Self
Champs-Elysées Image
Champs-Elysées
Self
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Midi trente
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche Image
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
30 millions d'amis Image
30 millions d'amis
Self
Les Jeux de 20 heures Image
Les Jeux de 20 heures
Self
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Samedi soir
Self
La Porteuse de pain Image
La Porteuse de pain
Ovide Soliveau
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Système 2
Self
Asterix at the Olympic Games Image
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Agecanonix
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar Image
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Agecanonix
Cadet Rousselle Image
Cadet Rousselle
Self
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
Lucas
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président Image
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
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The Voice of the Moon
Flute player
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A Golden Widow
'Il Vecchio'
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks Image
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Phalempin
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Pinot simple-flic
Vénus, le photographe
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La Grande Maffia
Balempier, head of department
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Andréa
Mehmet (as Sim O'Connor)
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The Funny Guys in a Crazy World
Alexandre Ladislas Ladretsky, le pianiste / Le poissonnier
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Drôles de zèbres
Napoleon
Touch'pas à mon biniou Image
Touch'pas à mon biniou
Gaëtan
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Bouvard : Le Meilleur de la télé
Self (archive footage)
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La brigade en folie
Commissaire Grospèze
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Le Roi des bricoleurs
Malju
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Une cloche en or
Robert Requefort aka Bébert
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)
Self (archive footage)
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Sacrés gendarmes
Legionary gendarme
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Les gaités de l’escadrille
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Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes
Self