Maurice Ronet
Acting
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.
Born: April 13, 1927
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Georges Levesques
as Brutus
as Roger Massina
as Henri
as Charly
as Yvon Mageot
as Rolf Freitag
as Charles Martin
as Charles Bais
as Philippe Dubaye
as Philippe Gregor
as Pierre
as Nuit d'or
as Luigi
as Paul Jordan
as David
as Self
as Robert Lucas
as Mathieu
as Inspector Briac
as Vittorio Cazzaniga
as Diserens
as Piere Gonzague
as Raoul Maury
as Giuseppe Lagana
as Fabrizio Garces
as Kelvo
as Marc Fontemps
as L'homme de l'organisation
as Raphaël de Lorris
as Didier
as Serge
as Léon Delmont
as Garal
as Commissario
as Jérôme
as François
as Jean-Marc, couturier ami de Delphine
as Harry
as Victor Pegala
as Rainier
as Phillipe
as Lotario
as Carlo
as Dex
as Paul Wagner
as Doctor Chevalier
as Pierre, comte de Damville
as Capain. Boisfeuras
as François Combe
as Amador
as Nicolas
as Henri
as Paul Vallier
as Ferrier
as Le condamné à mort
as French Lieutenant
as Alain Leroy
as Maurice Desjardins
as Dr. Gérard Rinaldi
as Walter Saccard
as Gilbert Vitry
as Michel Jussieu
as Michel
as Philippe
as Pierre Neyris
as Paolo Donati
as Dario Ledesma
as Philippe Greenleaf
as José
as Henri Messardier
as Self
as Jean Mallet
as Jacques
as Julien Tavernier
as Michelis
as Juan Milford
as Laurent Brulard
as Self
as Christophe de Conti
as 'Gueule d'ange'
as Vincenzo Bellini
as Vincenzo Bellini
as Miguel Murillo
as Self
as André Turenne
as Perotto
as Mickey
as Jim
as The priest (segment "La Luxure")
as François
as Roger Moulin