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.