---
name: "Lou Bonin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lou-bonin"
fi1m_id: "lou-bonin"
imdb_id: "nm0094672"
tmdb_id: 1446931
wikidata_id: "Q1879921"
roles: []
born: "16 June 1878"
died: "21 July 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:12:07.676210+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lou Bonin

## Identity

Lou Bonin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lou-bonin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lou-bonin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0094672
- **TMDB ID:** 1446931
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1879921
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1879921, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094672/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1446931

Production designer. Born 16 June 1878 in Avignon. Died 21 July 1963.

## Details

- **Born:** 16 June 1878, Avignon
- **Died:** 21 July 1963
- **Also known as:** Bonin-Tchimoukow, Reichenko, Lou Tchimoukoff, Tchimoukoff, Tchimoukof, Lou Tchimoukov, Tchimoukow
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1879921, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094672/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1446931

## Biography

Lou Bonin, also credited as Lou Tchimoukoff, Tchimoukow and variants, was a French actor, costume designer, production designer, set decorator and assistant director. He was born in Avignon in 1878 and died in 1963.

He appeared in small roles in several 1930s films, including an uncredited part as a passenger at the railway station in *L'Atalante* (1934). Bonin worked as a costume designer on *Ciboulette* (1933), *Bizarre, Bizarre* (1937), *Hôtel du Nord* (1938) and *Coral Reefs* (1939). He later served as assistant director on films including *Adieu Léonard* (1943), *Voyage surprise* (1947), *Passion for Life* (1949) and *L'Air de Paris* (1954). He was also credited with production design and set decoration duties, notably on *L'Affaire est dans le sac* (1932) and *Le village magique* (1955).

Bonin was associated with the Groupe Octobre theatre collective in the 1930s.

*Sources: imdb.com, svenskfilmdatabas.se, nl.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *L'Atalante* (1934), Fi1m 90, as Passenger at Railway Station (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/latalante.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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- *Magic Village* (1955), as Set Decoration
- *Air of Paris* (1954), Assistant Director
- *Truant School* (1949), Assistant Director
- *Coral Reefs* (1939), Costume Design
- *Hôtel du Nord* (1938), Costume Design
- *Haut comme trois pommes* (1936), as Delivery man
- *L'Atalante* (1934), as Passenger at Railway Station (uncredited) — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/latalante.md)
- *It's in the Bag* (1932), as l'agent de police · Production Design

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