Sim

Sim

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.

  • Title: Sim
  • Popularity: 1.217
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-07-21
  • Place of Birth: Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
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  • Also Known As: Simon Berryer, Simon Jacques Eugène Berryer
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Sim Movies

  • 1971
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    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    6.6 1971 HD

    Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others...

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  • 1970
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    She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

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

    6.1 1970 HD

    Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

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  • 1980
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    Sacrés gendarmes

    Sacrés gendarmes

    5.1 1980 HD

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  • 1973
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    La brigade en folie

    La brigade en folie

    3 1973 HD

    A police brigade and a financial brigade are sent to Switzerland to dismantle a banking sector.

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  • 1980
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    Touch'pas à mon biniou

    Touch'pas à mon biniou

    4 1980 HD

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  • 1970
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    Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)

    Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1984
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    Pinot simple flic

    Pinot simple flic

    5.659 1984 HD

    The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain...

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  • 2008
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    Asterix at the Olympic Games

    Asterix at the Olympic Games

    5.2 2008 HD

    Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick...

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  • 1999
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    Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

    Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

    5.995 1999 HD

    Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the...

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  • 1977
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    Drôles de zèbres

    Drôles de zèbres

    3.1 1977 HD

    Two unemployed men, heavily in debt due to losses at the racetrack, are hired by a criminal mastermind to harass the guests of a hotel he hopes to...

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  • 1958
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    Les gaités de l’escadrille

    Les gaités de l’escadrille

    5 1958 HD

    Onésime Labarbe, a "crawler" in the French Air Force, wants to become a pilot. He hopes to triumph over the sarcasm of his prankster comrades...

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  • 1969
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    A Golden Widow

    A Golden Widow

    4.9 1969 HD

    A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or...

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  • 2022
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    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    7.2 2022 HD

    In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first...

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  • 1971
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    La Grande Maffia

    La Grande Maffia

    3 1971 HD

    After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.

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  • 1976
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    Andréa

    Andréa

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1977
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    Le Roi des bricoleurs

    Le Roi des bricoleurs

    2 1977 HD

    Goumic, an industrialist and his wife Anne lose their big house when their town's mayor coerces them to sell it for a low price.

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  • 1990
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    The Voice of the Moon

    The Voice of the Moon

    6.8 1990 HD

    A parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a...

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  • 1993
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    Une cloche en or

    Une cloche en or

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

    The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

    3.8 1974 HD

    The viscount Galmiche de Quoibedec and his wife have today the engagement party of their daughter.Suddenly The viscount leaves the house, tries to...

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  • 1997
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    Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes

    Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1993
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    Une cloche en or

    Une cloche en or

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1975
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    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    10 1975 HD

    Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975...

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  • 1971
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    Cadet Rousselle

    Cadet Rousselle

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1976
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    30 millions d'amis

    30 millions d'amis

    5.8 1976 HD

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Système 2

    Système 2

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1976
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    Les Jeux de 20 heures

    Les Jeux de 20 heures

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1973
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    La Porteuse de pain

    La Porteuse de pain

    7 1973 HD

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