Actor

Paul Bonifas

June 3, 1902 · Paris, France

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.

Notable work

7.7
Charade (1963)
as Mr. Felix
7.6
The Train (1964)
as Spinet
6.6
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)
as le père de François Perrin
7
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
as Police Chief (uncredited)
7.2
Dead of Night (1945)
as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)

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