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Sim
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-07-21,Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

The Married Couple of the Year Two

6.5

The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971-04-07

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

6.1

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970-04-17

Sacrés gendarmes

5.5

Sacrés gendarmes
1980-03-26

La Brigade en folie

4.75

La Brigade en folie
1973-02-07

Don't Touch my Bagpipes!

6

Don't Touch my Bagpipes!
1980-12-03

Pinot simple-flic

5.6

Pinot simple-flic
1984-06-06

Drôles de zèbres

3.688

Drôles de zèbres
1977-03-22

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar

6.017

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999-02-03

Asterix at the Olympic Games

5.238

Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008-01-25

Les gaités de l’escadrille

7.5

Les gaités de l’escadrille
1958-05-28

5.067

A Golden Widow
1969-10-23

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

7.2

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07

La Grande Maffia

6

La Grande Maffia
1971-09-17

3

Andréa
1976-07-13

Le Roi des bricoleurs

4.333

Le Roi des bricoleurs
1977-02-23

The Voice of the Moon

6.7

The Voice of the Moon
1990-03-05

Une cloche en or

3

Une cloche en or
1993-01-01

The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

4.563

The Funny Guys in a Crazy World
1974-04-01

Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes

0

Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes
1997-04-23

Bouvard : Le Meilleur de la télé

0

Bouvard : Le Meilleur de la télé
2019-11-05

Le Grand Bluff : 30 ans déjà !

0

Le Grand Bluff : 30 ans déjà !
2022-12-01

9

Midi Première
1975-01-06

Cadet Rousselle

0

Cadet Rousselle
1971-11-04

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12

30 millions d'amis

6.167

30 millions d'amis
1976-01-06

6

Midi trente
1972-03-06

0

Système 2
1975-01-19

Les Jeux de 20 heures

7

Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976-03-22

6.75

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

La Porteuse de pain

8

La Porteuse de pain
1973-01-16

5.7

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02