Acting

Simone Silva

Born August 15, 1928 · Cairo, Egypt

Died November 30, 1957 · aged 29

Simone Silva was born to French-Italian parents in Cairo as Martha Simone de Bouillard. She was known mainly in England, where the great majority of her films were produced, as an actress of B-movies, who usually played supporting roles and bit parts.This mostly forgotten actress in some ways was more bright in life than in her very short career. Her tragic death was not entirely the result of na…

Known For

Secret People

Secret People · 1952

MovieCrimeDrama

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again · 1951

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked · 1954

The Weak and the Wicked

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

Desperate Moment

Desperate Moment · 1953

Desperate Moment

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Duel in the Jungle

Duel in the Jungle · 1954

Duel in the Jungle

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft · 2021

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Escape by Night

Escape by Night · 1953

Escape by Night

MovieThrillerCrime

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

Song of Paris

Song of Paris · 1952

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

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Secret People

Secret People · 1952

MovieCrimeDrama

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Undetermined (Minor Role - Paris Sequence) (uncredited)

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again · 1951

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

Beauty Queen Contestant (uncredited)

The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked · 1954

The Weak and the Wicked

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

Tina

Desperate Moment

Desperate Moment · 1953

Desperate Moment

Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)

Mink, Valentin's girl

Duel in the Jungle

Duel in the Jungle · 1954

Duel in the Jungle

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.

Redhead (unconfirmed, uncredited)

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft · 2021

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Escape by Night

Escape by Night · 1953

Escape by Night

MovieThrillerCrime

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

Rosetta Mantania

Song of Paris

Song of Paris · 1952

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

Marie-Louise (Perfume seller) (uncredited)

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker · 1951

The Sleepwalker

Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!

Louise (uncredited)

Street of Shadows

Street of Shadows · 1953

Street of Shadows

MovieDramaCrime

A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.

Angele Abbé

South of Algiers

South of Algiers · 1953

South of Algiers

MovieDramaAdventure

Archaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.

Zara

The Gelignite Gang

The Gelignite Gang · 1956

The Gelignite Gang

MovieThrillerCrime

A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.

Simone (Nightclub Singer) (uncredited)

Third Party Risk

Third Party Risk · 1954

Third Party Risk

MovieCrimeDrama

Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!

Mitzi Molnaur

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly · 1953

Turn the Key Softly

MovieCrimeDrama

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Marie (uncredited)

Le Tampon du capiston

Le Tampon du capiston · 1950

Le Tampon du capiston

Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.