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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Movies (94)
Undressing a Legacy
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Barefoot in the Kitchen
2013 · (archive footage)
Mag Bodard, un destin
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Surprise Party
1983 · Georges Levesques
La Guérilléra
1982 · Brutus
La Balance
1982 · Roger Massina
Un matin rouge
1982 · Henri
Beau Pere
1981 · Charly
Sphinx
1981 · Yvon Mageot
Bloodline
1979 · Charles Martin
Death of a Corrupt Man
1977 · Philippe Dubaye
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
1977 · Philippe Gregor
Madame Claude
1977 · Pierre
Bartleby
1976 · Director
Golden Night
1976 · Nuit d'or
Oh, mia bella matrigna
1976 · Luigi
Why They Kill Themselves
1976
To the Bitter End
1975 · Paul Jordan
The Golden Mass
1975 · David
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974 · Robert Lucas
Cry of the Heart
1974 · Mathieu
The Marseille Contract
1974 · Inspector Briac
Night Police Station
1974 · Vittorio Cazzaniga
The Red Room
1973 · Jean Gerfaud
The Crazy Capo Affair
1973 · Diserens
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
1973 · Piere Gonzague
Without Warning
1973 · Raoul Maury
Seduction
1973 · Giuseppe Lagana
Devil in the Brain
1972 · Fabrizio Garces
The Pebbles of Etratat
1972 · Kelvo
Scandal Man
1972 · Marc Fontemps
The Deadly Trap
1971 · L'homme de l'organisation
Raphael or the Debauched One
1971 · Raphaël de Lorris
A Little, a Lot, Passionately
1971 · Didier
The Sensuous Assassin
1970 · Serge
The Modification
1970 · Léon Delmont
Last Leap
1970 · Garal
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
1970 · Commissario
The Vixen
1969 · Jérôme
The Scarlet Lady
1969 · François
Delphine
1969 · Jean-Marc, couturier ami de Delphine
The Swimming Pool
1969 · Harry
The Unfaithful Wife
1969 · Victor Pegala
Birds in Peru
1968 · Rainier
How Sweet It Is!
1968 · Phillipe
A Devil Under the Pillow
1968 · Lotario
Garden of Delights
1967 · Carlo
The Road to Corinth
1967 · Dex
The Champagne Murders
1967 · Paul Wagner
Long March
1966 · Doctor Chevalier
Line of Demarcation
1966 · Pierre, comte de Damville
Lost Command
1966 · Capain. Boisfeuras
Three Rooms in Manhattan
1965 · François Combe
Amador
1965 · Amador
The Thief of Tibadabo
1965 · Nicolas, Director, Screenplay
Circle of Love
1964 · Henri
Wherever You Are
1964 · Paul Vallier
Pariahs of Glory
1964 · Ferrier
The Pit and the Pendulum
1964 · Le condamné à mort
The Victors
1963 · French Lieutenant
The Fire Within
1963 · Alain Leroy
Casablanca, Nest of Spies
1963 · Maurice Desjardins
Scarlet Eye
1963 · Dr. Gérard Rinaldi
Enough Rope
1963 · Walter Saccard
Assassin's Check
1962 · Gilbert Vitry
The Immoral Moment
1962 · Michel Jussieu
Midnight Meeting
1962 · Pierre Neyris
Liberté I
1962 · Michel
Time Out for Love
1961 · Philippe
Il peccato degli anni verdi
1960 · Paolo Donati
Mi último tango
1960 · Dario Ledesma
Purple Noon
1960 · Philippe Greenleaf
The Devil Made a Woman
1959 · José
This Desired Body
1959 · Henri Messardier
That Night
1958 · Jean Mallet
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958 · Jacques
Elevator to the Gallows
1958 · Julien Tavernier
He Who Must Die
1957 · Michelis
Missing Persons Section
1956 · Juan Milford
The Blonde Witch
1956 · Laurent Brulard
The Aristocrats
1955 · Christophe de Conti
Pleasures and Vices
1955 · 'Gueule d'ange'
Casta diva
1954 · Vincenzo Bellini
House of Ricordi
1954 · Vincenzo Bellini
Castles in Spain
1954 · Miguel Murillo
The Healer
1953 · André Turenne
Lucrèce Borgia
1953 · Perotto
Poison Ivy
1953 · Mickey
Endless Horizons
1953 · Marc Caussade
Desperate Decision
1952 · Jim
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · The priest (segment "La Luxure")
Perfectionist
1951 · François
Rendezvous in July
1949 · Roger Moulin
