Maurice Ronet
Maurice Ronet (13 April 1927 – 14 March 1983) was a French film actor, director, and writer.
Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes. He was the only child of professional stage actors Émile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. He made his stage debut at the age of 14 alongside his parents in Sacha Guitry's Deux couverts in Lausanne. After attending the Parisian acting school Centre du Spectacle de la Rue-Blanche, he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1944, where Jean-Louis Barrault was one of his mentors. When he made his film debut at 22 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet (1949) in a role that was written specifically for him by Becker, he had little interest in pursuing an acting career.
After completing the film, he married Maria Pacôme (a French stage actress and playwright), and they departed to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in Provence, where he tried his hand at ceramics. After completing his military service, he returned to Paris in the early 1950s where he took courses in philosophy and physics, and pursued his passion for literature, music (piano and organ), film and painting. His artwork, part of the peinture non figurative movement, was exhibited with friends Jean Dubuffet and Georges Mathieu. He also acted occasionally in small roles in the films of French directors like Yves Ciampi and René Wheeler, with ambitions of becoming a filmmaker himself. Gradually, however, he came to discover a freedom in acting and a creative satisfaction that provided a synthesis of all his interests.
Maurice Ronet became one of European cinema's more prolific actors. Between 1955 and 1975 he appeared in over 60 films. He often portrayed characters who were in conflict with themselves or society. He first garnered acclaim at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival for a supporting role in Jean Dreville's Endless Horizons (Horizons sans fin) and over the next few years as the romantic lead in André Michel's La sorcière (The Blonde Witch/The Sorceress, 1956) and in Jules Dassin's He Who Must Die (Celui qui doit mourir, 1957). It was at the presentation of "La Sorcière" at Cannes where he met a creative and an intellectual counterpart in Louis Malle. Two years later, he made his international box-office breakthrough as Julien Tavernier in Malle's first feature film Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud 1958), which features Jeanne Moreau. He originated the role of Philippe Greenleaf in Purple Noon (Plein soleil, 1960), René Clément's adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley. ...
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Known for
Beau Pere
Charly
The Aristocrats
Christophe de Conti
House of Ricordi
Vincenzo Bellini
Midi trente
Self
Line of Demarcation
Pierre, comte de Damville
The Victors
French Lieutenant
Madame Claude
Pierre
Bloodline
Charles Martin
Enough Rope
Walter Saccard
The Fire Within
Alain Leroy
The Golden Mass
David
Wherever You Are
Paul Vallier
The Unfaithful Wife
Victor Pegala
Surprise Party
Georges Levesques
Long March
Doctor Chevalier
The Scarlet Lady
François
Midnight Meeting
Pierre Neyris
Carve Her Name with Pride
Jacques
Rendezvous in July
Roger Moulin
Assassin's Check
Gilbert Vitry
Time Out for Love
Philippe
Sphinx
Yvon Mageot
That Night
Jean Mallet
Pleasures and Vices
'Gueule d'ange'
The Swimming Pool
Harry
Golden Night
Nuit d'or
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
Philippe Gregor
Raphael or the Debauched One
Raphaël de Lorris
Night Police Station
Vittorio Cazzaniga
Elevator to the Gallows
Julien Tavernier
Amador
Amador
Scandal Man
Marc Fontemps
The Sensuous Assassin
Serge
The Vixen
Jérôme
The Healer
André Turenne
Liberté I
Michel
Purple Noon
Philippe Greenleaf
To the Bitter End
Paul Jordan
Cry of the Heart
Mathieu
Oh, mia bella matrigna
Luigi
Seduction
Giuseppe Lagana
Endless Horizons
Marc Caussade
The Pebbles of Etratat
Kelvo
Mi último tango
Dario Ledesma
Barefoot in the Kitchen
(archive footage)
He Who Must Die
Michelis
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Piere Gonzague
Delphine
Jean-Marc, couturier ami de Delphine
Lucrèce Borgia
Perotto
La Balance
Roger Massina
Death of a Corrupt Man
Philippe Dubaye
The Red Room
Jean Gerfaud
Orient Express
Rolf Freitag
Castles in Spain
Miguel Murillo
The Pit and the Pendulum
Le condamné à mort
Last Leap
Garal
Lost Command
Capain. Boisfeuras
The Marseille Contract
Inspector Briac
The Blonde Witch
Laurent Brulard
Why They Kill Themselves
The Champagne Murders
Paul Wagner
Madame le Juge
Charles Bais
Three Rooms in Manhattan
François Combe
How Sweet It Is!
Phillipe
The Seven Deadly Sins
The priest (segment "La Luxure")
A Devil Under the Pillow
Lotario
Circle of Love
Henri
Poison Ivy
Mickey
The Deadly Trap
L'homme de l'organisation
Casablanca, Nest of Spies
Maurice Desjardins
This Desired Body
Henri Messardier
The Road to Corinth
Dex
The Immoral Moment
Michel Jussieu
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Robert Lucas
Scarlet Eye
Dr. Gérard Rinaldi
Casta diva
Vincenzo Bellini
Pariahs of Glory
Ferrier
Devil in the Brain
Fabrizio Garces
Desperate Decision
Jim
The Crazy Capo Affair
Diserens
A Little, a Lot, Passionately
Didier
Garden of Delights
Carlo
Carmen from Ronda
José
Without Warning
Raoul Maury
Mag Bodard, un destin
Self (archive footage)
Il peccato degli anni verdi
Paolo Donati
The Thief of Tibadabo
Nicolas
Missing Persons Section
Juan Milford
La Guérilléra
Brutus
Un matin rouge
Henri
Perfectionist
François
Birds in Peru
Rainier
The Modification
Léon Delmont
Undressing a Legacy
Self (archive footage)
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Commissario
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Samedi soir
Self
Discorama
Self