Albert Simonin

Albert Simonin

1905-04-18 Paris, France 30 Credits

Biography

Albert Simonin (1905–1980) was a French novelist and scriptwriter. He was born in the La Chapelle quarter of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. His father was a florist. Albert was orphaned by the age of 16. His novel Touchez Pas au Grisbi featuring the Parisian gangster Max le Menteur was turned into a movie starring Jean Gabin that is regarded as a classic example of French film noir. Simonin co-authored the screenplay for the movie. After World War II, he spent five years in prison for collabo...

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Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue

Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue

1973

Writer

7.0
Writing
A Loser

A Loser

1972

Adaptation, Writer

4.8
Writing

Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...

Pasha

Pasha

1968

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss lo...

Bang Bang

Bang Bang

1967

Writer

4.0
Writing

Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But...

Tender Scoundrel

Tender Scoundrel

1966

Writer

5.2
Writing

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

Writer, Adaptation

5.7
Writing

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The sec...

Cloportes

Cloportes

1965

Writer

6.3
Writing

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding tor...

Les baratineurs

Les baratineurs

1965

Writer

4.0
Writing

A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and M...

The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

1964

Writer

6.8
Writing

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obt...

A Mouse with the Men

A Mouse with the Men

1964

Writer

5.7
Writing

Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society.....

Trouble Among Widows

Trouble Among Widows

1964

Dialogue

6.8

When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she r...

Crooks in Clover

Crooks in Clover

1963

Novel

7.7

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo k...

Any Number Can Win

Any Number Can Win

1963

Adaptation

7.2

Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist hi...

Chicken Feed for Little Birds

Chicken Feed for Little Birds

1963

Novel

6.1

In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an ...

The Gentleman from Epsom

The Gentleman from Epsom

1962

Writer

6.1
Writing

The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

The Counterfeiters of Paris

1961

Novel, Screenplay

7.0
Writing

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money...

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

1960

as Le major Simpson / Major Simpson

6.1
Acting

Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, an...

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

1960

Adaptation

6.1

Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, an...

The Road to Shame

The Road to Shame

1959

Writer

6.0
Writing

Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows tha...

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

1958

as Chang, the Chinese (uncredited)

5.2
Acting

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclu...

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

1958

Novel, Screenplay, Dialogue

5.2
Writing

Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclu...

Incognito

Incognito

1958

Adaptation, Writer

3.2
Writing

Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for ...

Anyone Can Kill Me

Anyone Can Kill Me

1957

Dialogue

5.9

The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place t...

Fric-frac en dentelles

Fric-frac en dentelles

1957

Writer

6.0
Writing

Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Mea...

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

1957

Writer

6.4
Writing

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of th...

Burning Fuse

Burning Fuse

1957

as Albert (uncredited)

4.6
Acting

Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He c...

Burning Fuse

Burning Fuse

1957

Writer

4.6
Writing

Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He c...

Slightly Ahead

Slightly Ahead

1956

Writer

6.1
Writing

A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant....

Price of Love

Price of Love

1955

Adaptation

4.2

Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry...

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

1954

Novel, Dialogue, Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the styl...