Guy Bonnafoux
Acting
Biography
Guy Bonnafoux is an actor, known for Le Samouraï (1967), La famille heureuse (Famille Gazul) (1973) and Love Rites (1987).
Born: April 16, 1909
Place of Birth: Fondettes, Indre-et-Loire, France
Known For
Blue Ecstasy
"Offer yourself everything that makes you happy!." This is the unwise telegram sent by unfaithful husband to his wife that he abandoned on the day of their wedding anniversary to join a young and fiery mistress in London. The abandoned wife seeks then revenge by taking the word "happy" to mean pleasure in the carnal sense of the word and discovers ecstasies she had hitherto forgotten.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Le Samouraï
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
The Nurse
A beautiful nude woman, actually a nurse, making love if you can call it that, with a sixty something man with a bad heart. After this strenuous session of sex he carks it, with a smile on his face. Oh yeah, and, he put her in his will. Now she’s sent out in the country to this manor where this old miserable codger is on his deathbed, surrounded by a number of family figures all of who hate him, and are waiting for that day. Enter the voluptuous nurse to take care of him.
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Viper in the Fist
Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.
Fiction in Love
Papy is sick and tired of living in the country. He goes to Paris with the money he has stolen from his son and daughter-in-law. After he has paid a visit to a prostitute, he goes to Alain’s place (his grandson) who gives him shelter for the night. Papy’s son who fears that he might not inherit from his father goes after him with his wife. Thanks to a pendullum they also go to Paris and check at Alain’s who tells them that he is unaware of Papy’s location. He then tells him to go to one of his female friend’s place. The son and his wife ask for the help of a private detective who first proceeds to pay himself in kind with the wife. Papy who has found what real life is, decides to stay in Paris and get married. His son and daughter-in-law go back home disappointed
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
Supreme Delights
Martine, Mimi and Doris have had enough of providing for their slacker boyfriends. They decide to rent a place of their own, as well as a manservant. Soon, their newfound decadent lifestyles causes them to lose their respective jobs, and the manservant flees because of sexual harassment. Therefore the girls decide to start a private brothel.
The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Filmography
as Un membre du club
as Papy
as Monsieur Richemond
as Character of Paintings
as Le concierge
as Rothman
as Old man
as (segment "Hooked!") (archive footage)
as Spectator
as Grégoire
as Landry
as Man rue des Rosiers (uncredited)
as Marcel Gazul
as Lambillon
as Gurto
as Poker Player
as German Officer at Hitler's HQ (uncredited)
as Turkish Bath Employee (uncredited)