Paul Bonifas

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-06-03 (73 years old)

Deathday

1975-11-09

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Paul Bonifas

Biography

Paul Bonifas (3 June 1902 – 9 November 1975) was a French actor, born in Paris. In the 1920s, while working for the French customs service, Bonifas took classes in acting at the Conservatoire de Paris in his spare time. He left with the first prize for comedy, which allowed him to join the Odéon Theatre in 1933, then the Comédie-Française in 1938. He made his first film appearance in 1935 in a version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, directed by Pierre Chenal. During World War II he served as a lieutenant in the artillery, was badly wounded, and evacuated from Dunkirk with his unit. In London he joined the Free French, and worked for...

Acting

1964

The Train

as Spinet

1963

Charade

as Mr. Felix

1973

The Last Train

as Le voisin

1964

Greed in the Sun

as Doctor Magnart, former professor in Lyon

1970

Cold Sweat

as The doctor

1960

The Truth

as Un greffier

1952

The Green Glove

as Inspector

1944

1957

Love in the Afternoon

as Police Chief (uncredited)

1953

Their Last Night

as le commissaire principal

1975

The Common Man

as Le Maire

1970

An Artistic Couple

as Henri Faroy

1951

Duel à Dakar

as The Commander

1952

The Truth About Bebe Donge

as Traveler (uncredited)

1951

Amazing Monsieur Fabre

as Le ministre Victor Duruy

1952

Holiday for Henrietta

as The Newsagent (uncredited)

1953

Lettre ouverte

as Honoré, the father-in-law

1965

Le naïf amoureux

as 'Tonton Louis'

1975

Le père Amable

as Vatinol

1962

Les Célibataires

as Chandelier

1956

1969

Secret World

as Gustave / servant

1945

The Man from Morocco

as French Mayor

1961

Fanny

as The Postman

1964

Lucky Jo

as Légiste (uncredited)

1944

Two Fathers

as The Frenchman

1974

1958

A Woman Like Satan

as Innkeeper

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as Le père de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")

1957

Mademoiselle and Her Gang

as Marcel, owner of the hotel

1958

Les Misérables

as Hospital doctor

1960

The Gigolo

as (uncredited)

1952

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

as Monsieur Bleubois

1971

Love Me Strangely

as Le portier de l'hôtel

1958

Sinners of Paris

as L'inspecteur Renaud

1963

1968

La séparation

as Prêtre

1958

A Legitimate Defense

as le président de la cour

1951

Pardon My French

as Monsieur Bleubois

1960

1963

The Depths

as Mons. Lapeyre

1962

1946

Lisbon Story

as Stephan Corelle

1961

Goodbye Again

as Cellarman

1961

Blood on His Sword

as Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI

1944

Champagne Charlie

as Targetino

1942

The Foreman Went to France

as Prefect of Rouville

1970

The Horse

as Witness to car accident

1946

Bedelia

as Insurance Manager

1969

The Christmas Tree

as (uncredited)

1945

1944

English Without Tears

as Monsieur Rolland

1951

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

as Captain of the cargo ship

1945

Dead of Night

as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)

1964

1955

Frou-Frou

as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (uncredited)

1974

Antigone

as le choeur

1966

Triple Cross

as Charlie

1944

Candlelight in Algeria

as French Proprietor

1957

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