Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Born: October 3, 1943
Died: March 28, 2013
in Chaux, Côte-d'Or, France
Jean-Paul Bonnaire (3 October 1943 - 28 March 2013) was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1975 to 2013.

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Title: Falco
Character: Réceptionniste hôtel Falco
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: TV
In 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he once had is no longer as it was.
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Title: Falco
Character: Gérant hôtel Falco
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: TV
In 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he once had is no longer as it was.
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Mobile Home
Title: Mobile Home
Character: Luc, le père de Julien
Released: August 29, 2012
Type: Movie
After having broken up with his girlfriend and left his job, Simon has come back to his small hometown in the countryside, where he meets up again with his old friend Julien. The two thirty-year-old, unemployed and idle men decide to reinvest in an old dream from their teenage years: hitting the road for an adventurous journey. They buy a huge motor-home, but the trip is delayed by various troubles, and they decide to start their journey right where they are. Through this first motionless stage of their trip, Simon and Julien are confronted with themselves and what they wanted to run away from.
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The First Man
Title: The First Man
Character: Uncle Étienne (1957)
Released: September 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
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Ducoboo
Title: Ducoboo
Character: Kitrich
Released: June 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
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A Butterfly Kiss
Title: A Butterfly Kiss
Character: le gardien
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
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Bas-fonds
Title: Bas-fonds
Character: Père de Barbara
Released: September 17, 2010
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a complex game of love and domination. Magalie, the ringleader, subjugates through her male power, and bestial charisma. Simple Marie-Steph, her younger sister, remains in the background, and Barbara, unaware of her own prettiness, has joined the pack because she loves Magalie. One day, at Magalie’s instigation, and almost out of boredom, they hold up a bakery and kill the baker with a buckshot gun. Life gradually resumes, but nothing is the same.
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Perfect Match...
Title: Perfect Match...
Character: Roger
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Second Wind
Title: The Second Wind
Character: Théo
Released: October 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
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Le Pendu
Title: Le Pendu
Character: Le jardinier
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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Trivial
Title: Trivial
Character: Mario, attendant
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
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Quatre étoiles
Title: Quatre étoiles
Character: Jacky Morestel
Released: January 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.
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Camping à la ferme
Title: Camping à la ferme
Character: Jacky
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante juge d'application des peines, qui veut ainsi leur donner une dernière chance. Entre le portable vissé à l'oreille de l'un, le pit-bull de l'autre ou encore les prières musulmanes du troisième, ces adolescents vont bouleverser la vie paisible du petit village.
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Capitaine Achab
Title: Capitaine Achab
Character: Bull, le charpentier
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
The film follows a young Achab and the events that inspire his eventual journey to the sea.
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The Chorus
Title: The Chorus
Character: Father Maxence
Released: March 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
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RRRrrrr!!!
Title: RRRrrrr!!!
Character: Pierre (le Trop Grand 2)
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
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Nickel and Dime
Title: Nickel and Dime
Character: L'Enclume
Released: June 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Title: La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Released: April 3, 2002
Type: Movie
This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
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Mischka
Title: Mischka
Character: Muller
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka.
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All About Love
Title: All About Love
Character: Gégé
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
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Title: Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Character: Sylvain
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: TV
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
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Sidecar
Title: Sidecar
Character: Tarzan
Released: February 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.
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Never Twice
Title: Never Twice
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
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I Can't Sleep
Title: I Can't Sleep
Character: Arresting Detective
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.
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Just a Game
Title: Just a Game
Character: 'Sémaphore'
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.
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Double Gentlemen
Title: Double Gentlemen
Character: L'Ouragan - un copain de Léo
Released: October 22, 1986
Type: Movie
In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old friends, and at one point they decide to go out and search for one of their childhood buddies, the brunt of several of their practical jokes. In true form, the men opt for playing yet another practical joke on their friend, but their plans backfire when his wife Helene (Carole Bouquet) comes into the picture instead. Her presence forces them to reconsider their shenanigans in a new light.
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The Joint Brothers
Title: The Joint Brothers
Character: Un flic
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
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Guardian of the Night
Title: Guardian of the Night
Character: Legaec
Released: April 16, 1986
Type: Movie
With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out by robbing a post office and ends up trying to run over Aurore's boyfriend, an act which finally gets him into serious trouble.
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Maine-Ocean Express
Title: Maine-Ocean Express
Character: le procureur
Released: April 16, 1986
Type: Movie
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).
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Urgence
Title: Urgence
Released: June 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.
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Manipulations
Title: Manipulations
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his superior, Julien finds himself involved in a dangerous affair: a gigantic campaign of intoxication.
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Kill the Referee
Title: Kill the Referee
Character: Server of the pizzeria
Released: February 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.