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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
1973
Writer

A Loser
1972
Adaptation, Writer
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...

Pasha
1968
Screenplay
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
1967
Writer
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
1966
Writer
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
1965
Writer, Adaptation
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
1965
Writer
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
1965
Writer
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
1964
Writer
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
1964
Writer
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
1964
Dialogue
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
1963
Novel
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
1963
Adaptation
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
1963
Novel
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
1962
Writer
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.

The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
Novel, Screenplay
"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
1960
as Le major Simpson / Major Simpson
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
1960
Adaptation
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
1959
Writer
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
1958
as Chang, the Chinese (uncredited)
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
1958
Novel, Screenplay, Dialogue
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
1958
Adaptation, Writer
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
1957
Dialogue
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
1957
Writer
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
1957
Writer
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
1957
as Albert (uncredited)
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
1957
Writer
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
1956
Writer
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
1955
Adaptation
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
1954
Novel, Dialogue, Screenplay
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the styl...