Paul Bonifas
Born in Paris, France — Jun 03 1902• Died Nov 09 1975
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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…
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Félix Ducotel
Sherlock Holmes
Prof. von Gaulkins
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Le vieux Vick
Charade
Mr. Felix
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Triple Cross
Charlie
The Train
Spinet
Dead of Night
French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Les Misérables
Hospital doctor
Fanny
The Postman
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Master Lecornu
Cold Sweat
The doctor
Love in the Afternoon
Police Chief (uncredited)
The Truth
Un greffier
Goodbye Again
Cellarman
Maurin des Maures
Pons
Bayard
Aymon Terrail
Rosebud
Love and the Frenchwoman
Le père de Ginette (segment "La Virginité")
The Last Train
Le voisin
The Green Glove
Inspector
Holiday for Henrietta
The Newsagent (uncredited)
Aventure Malgache
Michel
The Common Man
Le Maire
Lucky Jo
Légiste (uncredited)
Champagne Charlie
Targetino
Illusions perdues
Camusot
The Christmas Tree
(uncredited)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
le père de François Perrin
Bedelia
Insurance Manager
The Horse
Witness to car accident
Lettre ouverte
Honoré, the father-in-law
English Without Tears
Monsieur Rolland
Secret World
Gustave / servant
Blood on His Sword
Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI
A Woman Like Satan
Innkeeper
The Man from Morocco
French Mayor
Frou-Frou
Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (uncredited)
Love Me Strangely
Hotel porter
The Foreman Went to France
Prefect of Rouville
The Enemy General
Mayor
Johnny Frenchman
Jerome
Greed in the Sun
Doctor Magnart, former professor in Lyon
The Case of Dr. Laurent
Guillaumin
Candlelight in Algeria
French Proprietor
Lisbon Story
Stephan Corelle
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Sinners of Paris
L'inspecteur Renaud
Le naïf amoureux
'Tonton Louis'
Sundays and Cybele
Grocer
Pardon My French
Monsieur Bleubois
Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Le ministre Victor Duruy
The Truth About Bebe Donge
Traveler (uncredited)
A Legitimate Defense
le président de la cour
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Monsieur Bleubois
The Depths
Mons. Lapeyre
La Duchesse d'Avila
L'aubergiste
Antigone
le choeur
The Sleeping Sentinel
Lanier
The Terror with Women
The Gigolo
(uncredited)
La parole est au témoin
Les Célibataires
Chandelier
Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Le notaire
Duel à Dakar
The Commander
Two Fathers
The Frenchman
Keep Talking, Baby
Le Père Amable
Vatinol
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Captain of the cargo ship
Their Last Night
le commissaire principal
Ils sont dans les vignes...
American
Clara de Montargis
Maxim's Porter
Piédalu fait des miracles
La séparation
Prêtre
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Sailor
Crime and Punishment
Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Marcel, owner of the hotel
An Artistic Couple
Henri Faroy
The Trip to Biarritz
Bourrély