Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-06-03 (73 years old)
Deathday
1975-11-09
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
The Molière Players
Henri Paul Bonifas
Paul Boniface
Victor Boniface
Bonifas
Bonifas de la Comédie Française
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...
1964
as Spinet
1963
as Mr. Felix
1973
as Le voisin
1964
as Doctor Magnart, former professor in Lyon
1970
as The doctor
1960
as Un greffier
1952
as Inspector
1944
as Michel
1957
as Police Chief (uncredited)
1939
1953
as le commissaire principal
1975
as Le Maire
1970
as Henri Faroy
1939
as Sailor
1951
as The Commander
1952
as Traveler (uncredited)
1952
as American
1951
as Le ministre Victor Duruy
1952
as The Newsagent (uncredited)
1953
as Honoré, the father-in-law
1965
as 'Tonton Louis'
1975
as Vatinol
1962
as Chandelier
1956
as Master Lecornu
1969
as Gustave / servant
1945
as French Mayor
1961
as The Postman
1964
as Légiste (uncredited)
1944
as The Frenchman
1974
as le père de François Perrin
1958
as Innkeeper
1960
as Le père de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")
1957
as Marcel, owner of the hotel
1958
as Hospital doctor
1960
as (uncredited)
1952
as Monsieur Bleubois
1971
as Le portier de l'hôtel
1958
as L'inspecteur Renaud
1966
as Lanier
1963
as Bourrély
1968
as Prêtre
1958
as le président de la cour
1951
as Monsieur Bleubois
1960
as Mayor
1963
as Mons. Lapeyre
1962
as Grocer
1946
as Stephan Corelle
1961
as Cellarman
1961
as Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI
1944
as Targetino
1942
as Prefect of Rouville
1970
as Witness to car accident
1946
as Insurance Manager
1969
as (uncredited)
1945
as Jerome
1944
as Monsieur Rolland
1951
as Captain of the cargo ship
1945
as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
1964
as Le notaire
1955
as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (uncredited)
1974
as le choeur
1966
as Charlie
1944
as French Proprietor
1957
as Guillaumin
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