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Simon Jacques Eugène Berryer was born on 21 July, 1926 in Cauterets, France. He is a French comedian, actor, and director. He is best known for his roles in the films La Grande Vadrouille (1966), Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973), and Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire (1972). Berryer began his career as a stage actor in the 1950s, and made his film debut in 1959. He has since appeared in over 100 films and television series. He has also directed several films, including La Grande Vadrouille (1966) and Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973). Berryer has won several awards for his work, including the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in La Grande Vadrouille (1966). He was also nominated for the César Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire (1972). As of 2021, Sim (actor)’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million. He has earned his wealth from his successful career as an actor, director, and comedian.

Popular As Simon Jacques Eugène Berryer
Occupation Comedian, writer, humorist
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 21 July, 1926
Birthday 21 July
Birthplace Cauterets, France
Date of death (2009-09-06) Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
Died Place Fréjus, Var, France
Nationality France

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2009

Sim died of a pulmonary embolism on 6 September 2009, aged 83, at the Bonnet community hospital in Fréjus, Var where he was being treated for pneumonia.

His funeral took place on 11 September 2009 at the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, where he had lived for nine years. His wife Marie-Claude and daughter Laurence were accompanied by many famous performers, including Victor Lanoux, Jacques Balutin, Évelyne Buyle, Philippe Bouvard and Pierre Sisser [fr]. The celebrant was Father Jérôme Renard. He was cremated at Vidauban (Var) and his ashes scattered in the crematorium's garden of remembrance.

1970

In the 1970s he was part of many televised sketch shows. He also performed comic sketches and songs with humourist Édouard Caillau [fr] on RTBF's Chansons à la carte [fr]. In France, he was a regular performer in short comic sketches, often in costume, on Guy Lux's programmes.

The 1970s saw his best cinema work. Sim also took part in the radio (and later television) programme Les Grosses Têtes, from its start in 1977, and was a regular panellist on the television game show L'Académie des neuf [fr].

1960

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.

1953

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.

1946

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.

1941

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.

1939

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.

1936

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).

1926

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

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.