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

[1] Simon Jacques Eugène was born on 21 July 1926 to engineer Henri Berryer and his wife Marie-Thérèse (née Bonnemazou).

[3] In 1936, the family moved to Nantes when Berryer senior found work as a technician at Le Majestic cinema[5] (later L'Olympic, then La Fabrique).

[7][non-primary source needed] The Berryer parents returned to Ancenis but Sim – now married – stayed in Rennes as a projectionist at Le Royal.

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[10] in a Guy Lux production.

Sim died of a pulmonary embolism on 6 September 2009, aged 83, at the Bonnet community hospital in Fréjus, Var[11][5] where he was being treated for pneumonia.

[12] 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].