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Sim

Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Sim

Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1926-07-21

Popularity

star1.6

Biography

Sim (born Simon Jacques Eugène Berryer; 21 July 1926 – 6 September 2009) was a French humourist, writer and comedian. 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 3.0.

Movie Credits

The Married Couple of the Year Two

The Married Couple of the Year Two‌
star6.6
calendar 1971

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

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks‌
star6.1
calendar 1970

Sacrés gendarmes

Sacrés gendarmes‌
star5.1
calendar 1980

La brigade en folie

La brigade en folie‌
star3.0
calendar 1973

Touch'pas à mon biniou

Touch'pas à mon biniou‌
star4.0
calendar 1980

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)‌
star0.0
calendar

Pinot simple flic

Pinot simple flic‌
star5.7
calendar 1984

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar‌
star6.0
calendar 1999

Drôles de zèbres

Drôles de zèbres‌
star3.1
calendar 1977

Asterix at the Olympic Games

Asterix at the Olympic Games‌
star5.2
calendar 2008

Les gaités de l’escadrille

Les gaités de l’escadrille‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

A Golden Widow

A Golden Widow‌
star4.9
calendar 1969

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président‌
star7.2
calendar 2022

La Grande Maffia

La Grande Maffia‌
star3.0
calendar 1971

Andréa

Andréa‌
star1.0
calendar 1976

Le Roi des bricoleurs

Le Roi des bricoleurs‌
star2.0
calendar 1977

The Voice of the Moon

The Voice of the Moon‌
star6.8
calendar 1990

Une cloche en or

Une cloche en or‌
star0.0
calendar 1993

The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

The Funny Guys in a Crazy World‌
star3.8
calendar 1974

Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes

Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes‌
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calendar 1997

Tv Credits

Midi Première

Midi Première‌
star10.0
calendar 1975

Cadet Rousselle

Cadet Rousselle‌
star0.0
calendar 1971

Samedi soir

Samedi soir‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche‌
star6.0
calendar 1975

30 millions d'amis

30 millions d'amis‌
star6.0
calendar 1976

Midi trente

Midi trente‌
star6.0
calendar 1972

Système 2

Système 2‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

Les Jeux de 20 heures

Les Jeux de 20 heures‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

Champs-Elysées

Champs-Elysées‌
star6.5
calendar 1982