Paul Bonifas
Nacimiento : 1902-06-03, Paris, France
Muerte : 1975-11-09
Historia
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. In London he joined the Free French, and worked for Radio Londres broadcasting to occupied France.
In 1942 he appeared in the film The Foreman Went to France.
In 1943 he formed "The Molière Players", who staged a repertoire of mainly Molière works in London theatres, as well as in regional towns and at French army barracks.
In 1944 "The Molière Players" appeared in the short film Aventure malgache directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This was written by, and based on the experiences of, Jules Francois Clermont, an actor in Bonifas' troupe working under the name of Paul Clarus, who had operated an illegal radio station Madagascar Libre in Madagascar while the island was under Vichy control.
Bonifas then appeared in a number of other British films, including Two Fathers with Bernard Miles, directed by Anthony Asquith, and had minor roles in the musicals Heaven Is Round the Corner and Champagne Charlie, the action adventure film The Man from Morocco, the comedy-drama Johnny Frenchman and the horror film Dead of Night.
Bonifas returned to France in 1946 and resumed his career in theatre, specializing in comedy, but also taking dramatic roles.
His later film career included appearances in Trapeze (1956), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), Fanny (1961), Charade (1963), Greed in the Sun (1964), The Train (1964), Is Paris Burning? (1966), Triple Cross (1966), and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974).
Bonifas died on 9 November 1975 at Vernouillet, Yvelines, France.
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Vatinol
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Amable, did not hear him that way but ended up giving in. Less than a year later, Césaire dies. Between Father Amable and his daughter-in-law, a cold and silent war begins.
le choeur
le père de François Perrin
Como fruto de una apuesta con un colega, el coronel Toulouse secuestra a la bella Christine y a François para conseguir forzar el retorno del Rubio y así demostrar que se trata de un agente especial del servicio de espionaje y no un fruto del azar. Secuela de "El gran rubio con un zapato negro".
Le voisin
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En mayo de 1940, tras la invasión de Francia por el ejército alemán, Julien huye con su mujer embarazada y su hija adolescente. Ciertas circunstancias los obligan a viajar en trenes diferentes, pero con el mismo destino. En el tren, Julien conoce a Anna Kauffman, una joven alemana de origen judío que también huye de los nazis. Ambos se enamoran, aunque saben que su amor acabará cuando el tren llegue a su destino. Aunque él no sabe qué hacer, ella no duda en marcharse cuando Julien visita a su esposa en el hospital donde ha dado a luz. En 1943, la Gestapo francesa solicita la presencia de Julien para que reconozca a Anna, que ha sido detenida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le portier de l'hôtel
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
The doctor
Los antiguos cómplices de Joe regresan a su vida amenazando con destruir su pacífica nueva existencia. Atrapado en una red de chantajes se ve obligado a ayudarlos.
Un témoin lors de l'accident dela voiture
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
A young student meets an elderly antiques-loving couple looking for a help. They like her very much, and she's hired on the spot.
(uncredited)
Tras la muerte de su madre, Pascal, un niño de diez años, pasa las vacaciones con su padre y la novia de éste en Córcega. Un día, mientras bucean cerca de la costa, un avión cae al mar. Algunos días después, en el rostro del niño aparecen unas inquietantes manchas azules como consecuencia de las radiaciones de un arma nuclear que transportaba el avión siniestrado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Gustave / servant
Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.
Charlie
En vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Eddie Chapman, un ladrón de cajas de caudales, es apresado y encerrado en la prisión de la isla de Jersey, al sur de Inglaterra. Al estallar la guerra, los alemanes ocupan la isla, y Eddie Chapman ofrece sus servicios al invasor para recobrar la libertad. Después de someterse a un periodo de instrucción como agente secreto, sus jefes lo pondrán a prueba para asegurarse de su lealtad.
Klein obtuvo el premio Jean Vigo con Polly Maggoo, su primer largometraje de ficción. Utilizando la animación, los números musicales y la foto fija, realiza una crónica ácida de la realidad, que sigue siendo válida en la actualidad. Se trata de una sátira elegante del mundo de la moda a través del retrato glamouroso y grotesco de una joven originaria de Brooklyn, exitosa modelo en París, que se convierte en el tema central del programa de televisión ¿Quién es usted?.
'Tonton Louis'
Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...
Légiste (uncredited)
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.
Spinet
El Coronel Franz Von Waldheim se encuentra destacado en París con una misión muy concreta: hacerse con las modernas pinturas francesas, las mismas calificadas de "degeneradas" por los nazis, y cargarlas en un tren con destino a Alemania para el Tercer Reich. Eso sí, ha de tener mucho cuidado de no dañar la carga y, además, tiene de tiempo límite lo que tarden los aliados en reconquistar la ciudad, es decir, poco margen, ya que cada vez están más cerca.
Doctor Magnart, former professor in Lyon
Sur de Marruecos. El propietario de una empresa de transportes contrata a un nuevo conductor para transportar un misterioso cargamento en un magnífico tráiler recién comprado. Uno de los empleados roba el vehículo con el fin de vender la carga en su propio beneficio. El mejor conductor de la compañía y el recién contratado vivirán una auténtica odisea persiguiendo al ladrón a través del Atlas marroquí. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le notaire
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
Mr. Felix
Charles Lampert, buscado por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos bajo la acusacion de haberse apoderado de un cuarto de millón de dólares en oro del fondo federal suma entregada a Charles y a cuatro compañeros de armas de éste, durante la guerra, para ayudar a la Resistencia francesa es asesinado cuando viajaba en tren en las proximidades de Burdeos. La esposa de Lampert -Regine- es sometida a vigilancia en Paris no solo por miembros de la embajada americana, sino por los individuos a los que Charles defraudó y que acusan a Regine de ocultar el dinero. Pero Regine es ajena, al parecer, a toda la maniobra montada por su difunto esposo.
Mons. Lapeyre
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.
Grocer
Un piloto padece amnesia tras participar en un bombardeo en Indochina. De regreso a Francia, el traumatizado piloto lleva una vida sin ilusión. (FILMAFFINITY)
Chandelier
Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI
Luis XI, rey de Francia, y Carlos el Temerario, duque de Borgoña, están en una situación de "guerra fría". Luis XI intenta conservar la paz, a pesar de los arrebatos coléricos del duque y las felonías del traidor Sénac. El proyecto del rey es dar a su ahijada, Jeanne de Beauvais, en matrimonio a Carlos, que la desea. Pero Jeanne está enamorada del caballero de Neuville...
The Postman
Fanny (Leslie Caron), una atractiva muchacha, es abandonada por Marius, un joven marinero deseoso de conocer mundo que ignora que ella está embarazada. La chica, empujada por las circunstancias, acaba casándose con un hombre cuarenta años mayor que ella. Algunos Años después, Marius regresa. Se basa en la obra homónima de Broadway, que, a su vez, se inspira en la última parte de una trilogía de Marcel Pagnol. Obtuvo 5 nominaciones a los Oscar, incluyendo mejor película, aunque no se llevó ningún premio.
Cellarman
Una madura parisina, unida sentimentalmente a un hombre de su edad y muy aficionado a las jovencitas, inesperadamente se enamora de un joven a quien le dobla la edad.
Un greffier
Dominique Marceau es juzgada por el asesinato de Gilbert Tellier, un músico lleno de talento recién salido del Conservatorio. Los abogados intentan encontrar un móvil que explique su conducta. ¿Pasión, venganza o accidente? Entre los testigos están los conocidos de Gilbert, los antiguos amantes de Dominique y, además, su hermana Anne, estudiante de violín y prometida de Gilbert. Los datos que van proporcionando los testigos permiten reconstruir las personalidades de Dominique y Gilbert y son más útiles que las elocuentes alegaciones de los abogados.
Mayor
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
le président de la cour
Le médecin de l'hôpital
Adaptación de la novela de Victor Hugo, con Jean Gabin en el papel de Jean Valjean.
L'inspecteur Renaud
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Marcel, owner of the hotel
Police Chief (uncredited)
La inocente Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn) es seducida por un playboy millonario norteamericano llamado Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper). Pero éste ignora que el padre de la chica es el detective privado Claude Chavasse (Chevalier).
Guillaumin
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Master Lecornu
Adaptación del clásico de Victor Hugo, con una exuberante Gina Lollobrigida como Esmeralda y el siempre excelente Anthony Quinn interpretando al tierno jorobado enamorado de la bella zíngara.
Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his small town. He is well-liked by most but he also has political enemies. Among them is Lagarde, a journalist close to the latter. Lagarde takes advantage of Morin being on holiday in Paris to try and tarnish his reputation. His machination unfortunately works and poor Aimé finds himself mistaken for a sex maniac.
Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel (uncredited)
Con la ayuda de cuatro protectores, uan joven parisina se convierte en una famosa cantante de cabaret. Ella se casa con un príncipe ruso, pero luego tiene otros amores hasta que un pintor suicida le da una hija.
le commissaire principal
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.
Honoré, the father-in-law
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
The Newsagent (uncredited)
Un director y un guionista están trabajando en el argumento de una película, pero se sienten algo bloqueados. Así, un periodista llamado Robert recibe un día una extraña invitación de una mujer de mediana edad llamada Rita. Mientras, Henriette, la novia de Robert, se ve involucrada por un timador. La idea se les ocurrió al guionista Henri Jeanson y al director Duvivier cuando estaban intentando crear su siguiente película conjunta. (FILMAFFINITY)
In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pimpin, is an unconditional defender of the vineyard. Pierre Moreau is, for his part, the representative of a hygienic drink, the "Koku-Kolu". The cafe owner's daughter, Rose, will find the man very to her liking and will manage to seduce him.
The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Piedalu, whom this conflict desolates, discovers by chance, as part of a found bicycle, a fortune in gold coins.
Monsieur Bleubois
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Inspector
Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un soldado norteamericano vuelve a la zona francesa, donde había luchado contra los nazis y robado una reliquia de una iglesia. De forma inesperada se verá envuelto en una caso de asesinato.
François es un rico industrial provinciano que está casado con Elizabeth, apodada Bebe. Ésta lleva una vida amargada, pues se siente completamente incomprendida por su marido y decide envenenarle. En el lecho de la agonía, François hará repaso mental de su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
Le ministre Victor Duruy
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
Monsieur Bleubois
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
La capitaine du cargo
Michel ha robado a su patrón, el señor Bellanger para conseguir esos recursos que le tenían que permitir casarse con Juliette. Una vez encarcelado, mientras duerme en su celda, se despierta y ve que las puertas están abiertas y conducen a un extraño pueblo en el que sus habitantes han perdido su memoria. Ahí vuelve a encontrarse con Juliette, también afectada por ese mal, y parece estar´conforme en casarse con un hombre rico.
Insurance Manager (as Paul Boniface)
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
Stephan Corelle
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Jerome
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
En un caserón inglés se reúne un grupo de personas que comienzan a contar historias de misterio: la de un conductor de autobús que parece anunciar la muerte, la de un fantasma infantil que mora en una mansión, la de dos amigos enfrentados por una mujer incluso después de la muerte, la de un espejo maldito, la de un muñeco de ventrílocuo que controla a su propietario.
French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
En un caserón inglés se reúne un grupo de personas que comienzan a contar historias de misterio: la de un conductor de autobús que parece anunciar la muerte, la de un fantasma infantil que mora en una mansión, la de dos amigos enfrentados por una mujer incluso después de la muerte, la de un espejo maldito, la de un muñeco de ventrílocuo que controla a su propietario.
French Mayor
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Targetino
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Monsieur Rolland
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
French Proprietor
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
Michel
Un combatiente de la Resistencia Francesa revela a su amante secretos, que después ella transmite a las autoridades de Vichy. El argumento se centra en la discordia que había entre los propios franceses cuando trataban asuntos relacionados con el ejército alemán y la compleja situación de los colaboradores de Vichy en Madagascar.
Prefect of Rouville
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
