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Maurice Ronet

Maurice Ronet

Actor · 1927 – 1983 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.0

    La Piscine

    The Swimming Pool

    1969 · 580 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Plein soleil

    Purple Noon

    1960 · 622 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Beau-père

    Beau Pere

    1981 · 155 votes

  • Movie6.9

    La Femme infidèle

    The Unfaithful Wife

    1969 · 152 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

    Elevator to the Gallows

    1958 · 731 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Mort d'un pourri

    Death of a Corrupt Man

    1977 · 112 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Lost Command

    1966 · 63 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Madame Claude

    1977 · 22 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Le Feu follet

    The Fire Within

    1963 · 251 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Bloodline

    1979 · 52 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Sphinx

    1981 · 32 votes

  • Movie4.4

    Lucrèce Borgia

    1953 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.7

    La seduzione

    Seduction

    1973 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.9

    How Sweet It Is!

    1968 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Le Scandale

    The Champagne Murders

    1967 · 25 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Don Juan ou si Don Juan était une femme...

    Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

    1973 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Le Guérisseur

    The Healer

    1953 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Marseille Contract

    1974 · 42 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Les Sept Péchés capitaux

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    1952 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Le Meurtrier

    Enough Rope

    1963 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Les Femmes

    The Vixen

    1969 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Victors

    1963 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.5

    La Femme écarlate

    The Scarlet Lady

    1969 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.3

    La Ligne de démarcation

    Line of Demarcation

    1966 · 40 votes

Series8

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.0

    Midi trente

    1972 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    Discorama

    1959 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Samedi soir

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV8.7

    Cinépanorama

    1956 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Reflets de Cannes

    1954 · 2 votes

  • TV8.8

    Madame le Juge

    1978 · 2 votes

  • TV8.5

    Orient-Express

    Orient Express

    1979 · 2 votes