Maurice Ronet
Biography
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.
Known For
Julien Tavernier
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
French Lieutenant
The Victors
Charles Martin
Bloodline
Serge
Qui ?
Alain Leroy
Le Feu follet
Philippe Greenleaf
Plein soleil
Raphaël de Lorris
Raphaël ou le débauché
François
Un grand patron
Harry
La Piscine
Robert Lucas
Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind
Victor Pegala
La Femme infidèle
Nuit d'or
Nuit d'or
Capain. Boisfeuras
Lost Command
Charly
Beau-père
Jacques
Carve Her Name with Pride
Henri
La Ronde
Pierre Neyris
Le rendez-vous de minuit
Yvon Mageot
Sphinx
Philippe
Les Grandes Personnes
Michel Jussieu
La Dénonciation
Doctor Chevalier
La Longue Marche
Self (archive footage)
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Giuseppe Lagana
La seduzione
Pierre, comte de Damville
La Ligne de démarcation
Inspector Briac
The Marseille Contract
Paul Wagner
Le Scandale
Jérôme
Les Femmes
Maurice Desjardins
Noches de Casablanca
Carlo
Il giardino delle delizie
Roger Massina
La Balance
Laurent Brulard
La Sorcière
Roger Moulin
Rendez-vous de juillet
Christophe de Conti
Les Aristocrates
L'homme de l'organisation
La Maison sous les arbres
Commissario
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Dex
La Route de Corinthe
Lotario
Un diablo bajo la almohada
Philippe Gregor
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
François Combe
Trois chambres à Manhattan
Vincenzo Bellini
Casa Ricordi
José
Carmen la de Ronda
Miguel Murillo
El torero
Self (archive footage)
Undressing a Legacy
Kelvo
Les Galets d'Étretat
Dario Ledesma
Mi último tango
Luigi
Oh, mia bella matrigna
Raoul Maury
Sans sommation
Mickey
La Môme vert-de-gris
Gilbert Vitry
Portrait-robot
Phillipe
How Sweet It Is!
Pierre
Madame Claude
Rainier
Les oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou
Amador
Amador
Garal
Le Dernier Saut
Le condamné à mort
Le Puits et le Pendule
Juan Milford
Section des disparus
Michel
Liberté I
Henri Messardier
Ce corps tant désiré
François
La Femme écarlate
Perché si uccidono
Jean Mallet
Cette nuit là...
Paul Jordan
Bis zur bitteren Neige
Diserens
L'Affaire Crazy Capo
Paolo Donati
Il peccato degli anni verdi
Georges Levesques
Surprise Party
Piere Gonzague
Don Juan ou si Don Juan était une femme...
Jean-Marc, couturier ami de Delphine
Delphine
Dr. Gérard Rinaldi
Das Todesauge von Ceylon
Léon Delmont
La Modification
Michelis
Celui qui doit mourir
Didier
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément...
Marc Fontemps
L'Odeur des fauves
Brutus
La Guérilléra
Ferrier
Parias de la gloire
The priest (segment "La Luxure")
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Philippe Dubaye
Mort d'un pourri
Walter Saccard
Le Meurtrier
Paul Vallier
Donde tú estés
David
La Messe dorée
Jim
La Jeune Folle
Vincenzo Bellini
Casta diva
Vittorio Cazzaniga
Commissariato di notturna
Perotto
Lucrèce Borgia
Marc Caussade
Horizons sans fin
'Gueule d'ange'
Gueule d'ange
Mathieu
Le cri du cœur
Fabrizio Garces
Il diavolo nel cervello
Nicolas
Le Voleur du Tibidabo
(archive footage)
Con la pata quebrada
Henri
Un matin rouge
André Turenne
Le Guérisseur
Self (archive footage)
Mag Bodard, un destin
Jean Gerfaud
La chambre rouge
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
93
Gender
Male
Birthday
1927-04-13
Place of Birth
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also Known As
Maurice Julien Marie Robinet