Maurice Ronet

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: April 13, 1927 – March 14, 1983
From: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

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.

Works

93 films

The Unfaithful Wife

19696.9

Beau Pere

19816.4

The Swimming Pool

19697.0

Purple Noon

19607.6

Elevator to the Gallows

19587.6

The Vixen

19695.4

Madame Claude

19774.9

Lost Command

19666.2

The Fire Within

19637.6

Wherever You Are

19646.3

Lucrèce Borgia

19534.4

Sphinx

19815.7

Mi último tango

19606.2

The Champagne Murders

19675.5

Line of Demarcation

19666.2

Three Rooms in Manhattan

19656.1

The Pebbles of Etratat

19724.0

Bloodline

19794.9

The Scarlet Lady

19696.5

Oh, mia bella matrigna

19764.1

The Marseille Contract

19746.0

Seduction

19735.8

The Victors

19636.3

Scandal Man

19726.5

The Seven Deadly Sins

19526.0

The Pit and the Pendulum

19646.5

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

19734.6

How Sweet It Is!

19686.9

To the Bitter End

19754.3

Carve Her Name with Pride

19586.0

The Deadly Trap

19715.5

Midnight Meeting

19627.3

The Healer

19536.0

Death of a Corrupt Man

19776.5

Raphael or the Debauched One

19716.1

Scarlet Eye

19637.4

Circle of Love

19645.7

Rendezvous in July

19496.1

He Who Must Die

19576.1

Last Leap

19705.4

Endless Horizons

19539.0

The Red Room

19734.0

La Balance

19826.4

Delphine

19695.5

Cry of the Heart

19743.0

Why They Kill Themselves

19766.5

Liberté I

19629.0

Golden Night

19765.1

Poison Ivy

19536.1

House of Ricordi

19546.3

The Blonde Witch

19566.3

Garden of Delights

19675.9

Pleasures and Vices

19555.7

Surprise Party

19835.0

Amador

19656.2

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

19745.7

Enough Rope

19635.8

The Sensuous Assassin

19705.7

Emmenez-moi au Ritz

19777.0

The Devil Made a Woman

19596.4

Night Police Station

19747.3

The Road to Corinth

19674.5

This Desired Body

19596.2

Long March

19668.0

The Crazy Capo Affair

19734.8

La Guérilléra

19829.0

Barefoot in the Kitchen

20136.0

Devil in the Brain

19725.7

The Golden Mass

19754.0

The Thief of Tibadabo

19659.0

Without Warning

19735.2

Time Out for Love

19615.8

Il peccato degli anni verdi

19606.0

Pariahs of Glory

19645.7

Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale

19705.6

The Aristocrats

19556.8

Casablanca, Nest of Spies

19635.0

A Devil Under the Pillow

19684.5

Undressing a Legacy

2021

Birds in Peru

19685.0

The Immoral Moment

19625.2

Mag Bodard, un destin

2005

That Night

19585.8

Perfectionist

19516.8

Casta diva

19547.0

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables

2021

Castles in Spain

19547.0

A Little, a Lot, Passionately

19717.0

The Modification

19708.0

Assassin's Check

196210.0

Desperate Decision

19525.5

Un matin rouge

19829.0

Missing Persons Section

19566.6