Sim

He spent his childhood in Ancenis (Loire-Atlantique), the city in which its parents are a cinema, The Eden, where he works as a opener. Then, shortly before the war, the family Berryer moved to Nantes, there to take the management of another room, the Majestic (later to become The Olympic), place Jean-Macé in the suburb of Chantenay. The young Simon then follows his studies at the lycée Leloup-Bouhier of the city. Sim began his professional life in 1946 as an operator of a cinema in Rennes at the cinema The Royal. It presents from 1953, a round of singing comic in cabaret, often in drag, as Madame Arthur in Montmartre. He also works at the Crazy Horse Saloon as a trainer of nipples to point the breasts of the girls. This period of his career will be evoked in She drinks, she smokes, she flirts, but she because of Michel Audiard, in which he played a teacher of a child forced to dress up as a "Dragonfly" to pay for summer camps for orphans in the suburbs. In the 1960s, he was part of the team animating television shows for the youth organized Thursday afternoon by Jean Nohain, and then interprets the baroness of Cum-in-Bias in an issue of Guy Lux. He participated in several soap operas, as well as, in the 1970s, with comedian Edouard Caillau, to duets of songs and sketch comedy for Songs to the card on the RTBF. Sim always embodies his character of the " baroness of Cum-in-Bias ". In France, he regularly acts for short comedy sketches, often disguised, in the emissions of Guy Lux. The 1970s are for the most rich cinematically. Sim also participates in the radio broadcast (and later television) of the Large Heads, since its creation in 1977, as well as on the game show The Academy of nine, of which he is a regular guest. He participated in the drafting of scenarios for the series Louis la Brocante, in which he played, in addition, the role of Theodore in several episodes. He died on Sunday, September 6, 2009, at the age of 83 years old, a pulmonary embolism, Saint-Raphaël, in the Var. He had been hospitalized a few days earlier for treatment of pneumonia. His funeral took place on September 11, 2009 in the Church Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Roquebrune-sur-Argens commune, where he had resided for the past nine years and where he was buried. Crématisé in Vidauban (83), his ashes were scattered at the garden of remembrance in the crematorium.