Actor
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 ser ...

Known For
Acting
1975 -- Le père Amable | Vatinol
1975 -- The Common Man | Le Maire
1974 -- Antigone | le choeur
1974 -- The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe | le père de François Perrin
1973 -- The Last Train | Le voisin
1971 -- Love Me Strangely | Le portier de l'hôtel
1970 -- Cold Sweat | The doctor
1970 -- The Horse | Witness to car accident
1970 -- An Artistic Couple |
1969 -- The Christmas Tree | (uncredited)
1969 -- Secret World | Gustave / servant
1968 -- La séparation | Prêtre
1966 -- Triple Cross | Charlie
1966 -- Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? |
1966 -- The Sleeping Sentinel |
1965 -- Le naïf amoureux | 'Tonton Louis'
1964 -- Lucky Jo | Légiste (uncredited)
1964 -- The Train | Spinet
1964 -- Greed in the Sun | Doctor Magnart, former professor in Lyon
1964 -- Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent | Le notaire
1963 -- Charade | Mr. Felix
1963 -- La parole est au témoin |
1963 -- The Depths | Mons. Lapeyre
1963 -- The Trip to Biarritz |
1962 -- Sundays and Cybele | Grocer
1962 -- Les Célibataires | Chandelier
1961 -- Keep Talking, Baby |
1961 -- Blood on His Sword | Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI
1961 -- Fanny | The Postman
1961 -- Goodbye Again | Cellarman
1960 -- The Truth | Un greffier
1960 -- The Enemy General | Mayor
1960 -- The Gigolo | (uncredited)
1960 -- Love and the Frenchwoman | Le père de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")
1958 -- A Woman Like Satan | Innkeeper
1958 -- A Legitimate Defense | le président de la cour
1958 -- Les Misérables | Le médecin de l'hôpital
1958 -- Sinners of Paris | L'inspecteur Renaud
1957 -- Mademoiselle and Her Gang | Marcel, owner of the hotel
1957 -- Love in the Afternoon | Police Chief (uncredited)
1957 -- The Case of Dr. Laurent | Guillaumin
1956 -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Master Lecornu
1956 -- The Terror with Women |
1955 -- Frou-Frou | Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (uncredited)
1953 -- Their Last Night | le commissaire principal
1953 -- Lettre ouverte | Honoré, the father-in-law
1952 -- Holiday for Henrietta | The Newsagent (uncredited)
1952 -- Ils sont dans les vignes... | American
1952 -- Piédalu fait des miracles |
1952 -- Dans la vie tout s'arrange | Monsieur Bleubois
1952 -- The Green Glove | Inspector
1952 -- The Truth About Bebe Donge |
1951 -- Duel à Dakar | The Commander
1951 -- Amazing Monsieur Fabre | Le ministre Victor Duruy
1951 -- Pardon My French | Monsieur Bleubois
1951 -- Clara de Montargis |
1951 -- Juliette, or Key of Dreams | La capitaine du cargo
1946 -- Bedelia | Insurance Manager (as Paul Boniface)
1946 -- Lisbon Story | Stephan Corelle
1945 -- Johnny Frenchman | Jerome
1945 -- Dead of Night | French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
1945 -- The Man from Morocco | French Mayor
1944 -- Champagne Charlie | Targetino
1944 -- English Without Tears | Monsieur Rolland
1944 -- Candlelight in Algeria | French Proprietor
1944 -- Two Fathers | The Frenchman
1944 -- Madagascar Landing | Michel
1942 -- The Foreman Went to France | Prefect of Rouville
1939 -- Maxim's Porter |
1939 -- The Five Cents of Lavarede |
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