Sim
Sim is known for Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008), Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar (1999), The Voice of the Moon (1990).
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. ...
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Questions about Sim
How many Sim films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 14 films with Sim, from 1958 to 2022.
What is the best rated Sim film?
The best rated Sim film in the catalogue is The Voice of the Moon (1990), rated 6.7.
What was the first Sim film?
The first Sim film in the catalogue is She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks, from 1970.
Who has Sim worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Sim shares the most credits with Roberto Benigni (2 films).
People data: TMDb.
Known for
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6.0 Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999
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5.2 Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008
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6.7 The Voice of the Moon
1990
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6.5 The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
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5.6 Pinot simple-flic
1984
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5.5 Sacrés gendarmes
1980
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7.2 La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
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6.1 She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970
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5.1 A Golden Widow
1969
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Le Grand Bluff : 30 ans déjà !
2022
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6.0 La Grande Maffia
1971
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4.3 Le Roi des bricoleurs
1977
Full filmography
21 films — 14 in the catalogue
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Le Grand Bluff : 30 ans déjà !
2022 · Self (archive footage)
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7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
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Bouvard : Le Meilleur de la télé
2019 · Self (archive footage)
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5.2
Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008 · Agecanonix
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6.0
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · Agecanonix
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Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes
1997 · Self
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3.0 Une cloche en or
1993 · Robert Requefort aka Bébert
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6.7
The Voice of the Moon
1990 · Flute player
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5.6
Pinot simple-flic
1984 · Vénus, le photographe
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6.0 Touch'pas à mon biniou
1980 · Gaëtan
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5.5
Sacrés gendarmes
1980 · Legionary gendarme
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3.7 Drôles de zèbres
1977 · Napoleon
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4.3
Le Roi des bricoleurs
1977 · Malju
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3.0 Andréa
1976 · Mehmet (as Sim O'Connor)
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4.6 La Grande Nouba
1974 · Alexandre Ladislas Ladretsky, le pianiste / Le poissonnier
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4.8 La Brigade en folie
1973 · Commissaire Grospèze
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6.0
La Grande Maffia
1971 · Balempier, head of department
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6.5
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971 · Lucas
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6.1
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970 · Phalempin
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5.1
A Golden Widow
1969 · 'Il Vecchio'
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7.5 Les gaités de l’escadrille
1958
People data: TMDb.
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