Aimé Simon-Girard (20 March 1889 – 15 July 1950) was a French

film actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. He was the son of the tenor Nicholas Simon-Max and the soprano

Juliette Simon-Girard Juliette-Joséphine Simon-Girard (; 8 May 1859 – 1954) was a French soprano, principally in operetta.Gänzl K. Juliette Simon-Girard. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Her father, , was an actor at th ...

. He played a leading role as

d'Artagnan Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the Fr ...

in the silent film ''

Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) is a 1921 French silent adventure film serial directed by Henri Diamant-Berger based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Plot summary Cast * Aimé Simon-Girard ... d'Artagnan * Henri Rollan ... Athos ...

'' (1921), the first film adaptation of the novel and his screen breakthrough role. He starred in 20 films between 1921 and 1948.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1921) * '' Fanfan la Tulipe'' (1925) * ''

The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' () is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in col ...

'' (1932) * ''

Arsene Lupin, Detective ''Arsene Lupin, Detective'' (French: ''Arsène Lupin détective'') is a 1937 French crime film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Jules Berry, Gabriel Signoret and Suzy Prim. Plot Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in ad ...

'' (1937) * '' Francis the First'' (1937) * ''

The Pearls of the Crown ''The Pearls of the Crown'' () is a 1937 French comedy film of historically based fiction by Sacha Guitry who plays four roles in it (many of the other performers play multiple roles, as well). Guitry's Jean Martin investigates the history of s ...

'' (1937) * '' Alexis, Gentleman Chauffeur'' (1938) * '' The Black Cavalier'' (1945) * '' Mandrin'' (1947)

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* 1889 births 1950 deaths Male actors from Paris French male film actors French male silent film actors 20th-century French male actors Burials at Batignolles Cemetery {{france-film-actor-1880s-stub