Manuel Bonnet

Manuel Bonnet

Manuel Bonnet is a French author and an award-winning actor who primarily appears in French cinema and television.

He studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris from 1970–73 and has had many roles and cameo parts in film and TV over more than 30 years, mostly in France.

Bonnet made a guest appearance on Highlander: The Series as Cavalry Captain in an episode titled Unholy Alliance: Part 2 and also the French foreign subtitled film Les Fautes d'orthographe. He also appeared in Thomas the Falconer alongside actors and actresses like Brano Holicek, Juraj Kukura, Jiri Langmajer and Jaroslav Zvasta.

A direct descendant of the photographic pioneer Nicéphore Niépce, Manuel Bonnet was the co-writer, with Jean-Louis Marignier of the book “Niépce, correspondance et papiers”, published by Maison Nicéphore Niépce in 2003, and the initiator of the celebrations in 2007 of the bicentennial of the invention of the Pyreolophore, an early internal combustion engine designed by the Niépce brothers.

In the course of research made by the Swedish filmmaker Vilgot Sjöman on Alfred Nobel, the study by Manuel Bonnet of Nobel's French associate, Paul Barbe, found recognition through the creation of files bearing his name in the archives of the Nobel institute in Stockholm.

He has also contributed to the book by Max Lavigne entitled: "Chantecoq, De la Cité Royale à la Commune républicaine" in 1996.

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Movies for Manuel Bonnet...

Love Street
Title: Love Street
Character: un roumain
Released: February 13, 2002
Type: Movie
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
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Un coup de baguette magique
Title: Un coup de baguette magique
Character: André
Released: August 27, 1997
Type: Movie
While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.
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Highlander: Unholy Alliance
Title: Highlander: Unholy Alliance
Character: Cavalry Captain
Released: February 21, 1994
Type: Movie
Immortal Xavier St. Cloud has mortals shoot his Immortal opponents so he can take their heads. Joe tells Duncan about the killings to warn him, and soon St. Cloud and his henchmen show up at the dojo. Duncan discovers the supposedly-dead Horton is working with St. Cloud, and Joe knew that Horton was alive. Meanwhile, an army intelligence officer named Renee Delaney gets involved while she is investigating one of the men working with St. Cloud.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Cavalry Captain
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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Sibylle
Title: Sibylle
Character: Sylvain
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A movie collector buys a short film titled "Sibylle", showing a young woman, very beautiful, enigmatic, in the Funicular of Montmartre, in Paris. But this reel has something strange which will develop in a mysterious and disturbing way.
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Title: L'âge en fleur
Character: Serge
Released: February 27, 1975
Type: TV