Birthday
1902/06/03
Day of death
1975/11/09 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know 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 ser...Read more
(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) Madagascar Landing
as Michel
(1957) Love in the Afternoon
as Police Chief (uncredited)
(1939) Maxim's Porter
as ---
(1963) La parole est au témoin
as ---
(1953) Their Last Night
as le commissaire principal
(1975) The Common Man
as Le Maire
(1970) An Artistic Couple
as ---
(1939) The Five Cents of Lavarede
as ---
(1951) Duel à Dakar
as The Commander
(1952) The Truth About Bebe Donge
as ---
(1952) Piédalu fait des miracles
as ---
(1951) Clara de Montargis
as ---
(1952) Ils sont dans les vignes...
as American
(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) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Master Lecornu
(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) The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as le père de François Perrin
(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 Le médecin de l'hôpital
(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
(1961) Keep Talking, Baby
as ---
(1966) The Sleeping Sentinel
as ---
(1963) The Trip to Biarritz
as ---
(1968) La séparation
as Prêtre
(1958) A Legitimate Defense
as le président de la cour
(1951) Pardon My French
as Monsieur Bleubois
(1960) The Enemy General
as Mayor
(1963) The Depths
as Mons. Lapeyre
(1962) Sundays and Cybele
as Grocer
(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 (as Paul Boniface)
(1969) The Christmas Tree
as (uncredited)
(1945) Johnny Frenchman
as Jerome
(1944) English Without Tears
as Monsieur Rolland
(1951) Juliette, or Key of Dreams
as La capitaine du cargo
(1956) The Terror with Women
as ---
(1945) Dead of Night
as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
(1964) Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
as Le notaire
(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) The Case of Dr. Laurent
as Guillaumin
(1966) Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as ---
(1973) La Duchesse d'Avila
as L'aubergiste
(1954) Sherlock Holmes
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1968) Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
as Le vieux Vick
(1966) At Theatre Tonight
as Félix Ducotel
(1966) Illusions perdues
as Camusot
(1964) Bayard
as Aymon Terrail
(1970) Maurin des Maures
as Pons