
Maurice Ronet
Born April 13, 1927 · 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.
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Elevator to the Gallows

Sphinx

Death of a Corrupt Man

Madame Claude

The Fire Within

He Who Must Die

The Deadly Trap

Lost Command

Seduction

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

Bloodline

Carve Her Name with Pride

Lucrèce Borgia

Line of Demarcation

The Seven Deadly Sins

How Sweet It Is!

The Champagne Murders

The Victors

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

The Marseille Contract

The Road to Corinth

Rendezvous in July

Mag Bodard, un destin

The Devil Made a Woman

To the Bitter End

Three Rooms in Manhattan

The Vixen

Cry of the Heart

The Healer

Raphael or the Debauched One

Scandal Man

Poison Ivy

Circle of Love

A Devil Under the Pillow

Devil in the Brain

Midnight Meeting

Oh, mia bella matrigna

Delphine

The Scarlet Lady

Garden of Delights

The Pebbles of Etratat

This Desired Body

Enough Rope

Emmenez-moi au Ritz

The Crazy Capo Affair

The Thief of Tibadabo

Barefoot in the Kitchen

Birds in Peru

La Balance

Pariahs of Glory

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Scarlet Eye

Long March

The Pit and the Pendulum

Mi último tango

Il peccato degli anni verdi

House of Ricordi

The Aristocrats

Pleasures and Vices

The Sensuous Assassin

The Blonde Witch

Liberté I

Surprise Party

Undressing a Legacy

Casablanca, Nest of Spies

A Little, a Lot, Passionately

Time Out for Love

Wherever You Are

Perfectionist

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

Casta diva

The Red Room

The Golden Mass

Golden Night

Without Warning

The Immoral Moment

Castles in Spain

The Modification

Night Police Station

That Night

La Guérilléra

Desperate Decision

Last Leap

Why They Kill Themselves

Un matin rouge

Amador

Assassin's Check










