Maurice Ronet

Maurice Ronet (55)

1927-04-13 - 1983-03-14 | Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

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. ... Source: Article "Maurice Ronet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

On Movies

  • Surprise Party
  • La Balance
  • Beau Pere
  • Sphinx
  • Bloodline
  • Death of a Corrupt Man
  • Emmenez-moi au Ritz
  • Madame Claude
  • Golden Night
  • Why They Kill Themselves
  • To the Bitter End
  • The Golden Mass
  • Only the Wind Knows the Answer
  • Cry of the Heart
  • The Marseille Contract
  • Night Police Station
  • The Crazy Capo Affair
  • Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
  • Without Warning
  • Seduction
  • Devil in the Brain
  • The Pebbles of Etratat
  • Scandal Man
  • The Deadly Trap
  • Raphael or the Debauched One
  • A Little, a Lot, Passionately
  • The Sensuous Assassin
  • The Modification
  • Last Leap
  • Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
  • The Vixen
  • The Scarlet Lady
  • The Swimming Pool
  • The Unfaithful Wife
  • Birds in Peru
  • How Sweet It Is!
  • A Devil Under the Pillow
  • Garden of Delights
  • The Road to Corinth
  • The Champagne Murders
  • Long March
  • Line of Demarcation
  • Lost Command
  • Three Rooms in Manhattan
  • Amador
  • The Thief of Tibadabo
  • Circle of Love
  • Wherever You Are
  • Pariahs of Glory
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Victors
  • The Fire Within
  • Casablanca, Nest of Spies
  • Scarlet Eye
  • Enough Rope
  • Assassin's Check
  • The Immoral Moment
  • Liberté I
  • Time Out for Love
  • Midnight Meeting
  • Il peccato degli anni verdi
  • Mi último tango
  • Purple Noon
  • Carmen from Ronda
  • This Desired Body
  • That Night
  • Carve Her Name with Pride
  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • He Who Must Die
  • Missing Persons Section
  • The Blonde Witch
  • The Aristocrats
  • Pleasures and Vices
  • Casta diva
  • House of Ricordi
  • Castles in Spain
  • The Healer
  • Lucrèce Borgia
  • Poison Ivy
  • Endless Horizons
  • Desperate Decision
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Perfectionist
  • Rendezvous in July

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