Paul Bonifas

Personal Info

Birthday

June 3, 1902

Day of Death

1975-11-09

(73 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Also Known As

The Molière Players

Henri Paul Bonifas

Paul Boniface

Victor Boniface

Bonifas

Bonifas de la Comédie Française

Paul Bonifas

Biography

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.