PAUL BONIFAS
ACTING
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.
- The Train1964
- Charade1963
- Greed in the Sun1964
- Cold Sweat1970
- The Truth1960
- The Green Glove1952
- Aventure Malgache1944
- Love in the Afternoon1957
- Their Last Night1953
- The Man from Morocco1945
- Fanny1961
- The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe1974
- Les Misérables1958
- Pardon My French1951
- The Enemy General1960
- Sundays and Cybele1962
- Goodbye Again1961
- Blood on His Sword1961
- Champagne Charlie1944
- The Foreman Went to France1942
- The Horse1970
- Bedelia1946
- Johnny Frenchman1945
- The Christmas Tree1969
- English Without Tears1944
- Juliette, or Key of Dreams1951
- Dead of Night1945
- Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent1964
- Frou-Frou1955
- Triple Cross1966
- Candlelight in Algeria1944
- The Case of Dr. Laurent1957
- The Last Train1973
- Amazing Monsieur Fabre1951
- Holiday for Henrietta1952
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame1956
- Secret World1969
- Lucky Jo1964
- Love Me Strangely1971
- The Common Man1975
- Love and the Frenchwoman1960
- Illusions perdues1966
- Les Dossiers de l'Agence O1968
- At Theatre Tonight1966