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Maurice Ronet
Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born April 13, 1927Died March 14, 1983 (55 years)
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. ...
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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. ...
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Known For
Maurice Ronet Filmography
| 2013 | Barefoot in the Kitchen · as (archive Footage) |
| 1984 | La vengeance du serpent à plumes · as Harry |
| 1983 | Surprise Party · as Georges Levesques |
| 1982 | La balance · as Roger Massina |
| 1982 | La guérilléra · as Brutus |
| 1981 | Beau-père · as Charly |
| 1981 | Sphinx · as Yvon Mageot |
| 1979 | Orient-Express (TV Series) · as Rolf Freitag |
| 1979 | Bloodline · as Charles Martin |
| 1977 | Death of a Corrupt Man · as Philippe Dubaye |
| 1977 | Madame Claude · as Pierre |
| 1977 | Golden Night · as Nuit D'or |
| 1976 | Oh, My Beautiful Stepmother · as Luigi |
| 1975 | To the Bitter End · as Paul Jordan |
| 1975 | The Golden Mass · as David |
| 1974 | Only the Wind Knows the Answer · as Robert Lucas |
| 1974 | Le cri du coeur · as Mathieu |
| 1974 | The Destructors · as Inspector Briac |
| 1974 | Commissariato di notturna · as Vittorio Cazzaniga |
| 1973 | Seduction · as Giuseppe Lagana |
| 1973 | The Crazy Capo Affair · as Diserens |
| 1973 | Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman · as Piere Gonzague |
| 1973 | Without Appeal · as Raoul Maury |
| 1972 | Devil in the Brain · as Fabrizio Garces |
| 1972 | Les galets d'Étretat · as Kelvo |
| 1972 | L'odeur des fauves · as Marc Fontemps |
| 1971 | The Deadly Trap · as L'homme De L'organisation |
| 1971 | Raphaël ou le débauché · as Raphaël De Lorris |
| 1970 | The Sensuous Assassin · as Serge |
| 1970 | The Modification · as Léon Delmont |
| 1970 | Last Leap · as Garal |
| 1970 | Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale · as Commissario |
| 1969 | Les femmes · as Jérôme |
| 1969 | The Scarlet Lady · as François |
| 1969 | Delphine · as Jean-Marc, Couturier Ami De Delphine |
| 1969 | The Swimming Pool · as Harry |
| 1969 | The Unfaithful Wife · as Victor Pegala |
| 1968 | How Sweet It Is! · as Phillipe |
| 1968 | Birds in Peru · as Rainier |
| 1968 | Spirits of the Dead · as Récitant |
| 1968 | Un diablo bajo la almohada · as Lotario |
| 1967 | Il giardino delle delizie · as Carlo |
| 1967 | The Road to Corinth · as Dex |
| 1967 | The Champagne Murders · as Paul Wagner |
| 1966 | Line of Demarcation · as Pierre, Comte De Damville |
| 1966 | Lost Command · as Capain. Boisfeuras |
| 1965 | Three Rooms in Manhattan · as François Combe |
| 1965 | Amador · as Amador |
| 1964 | Circle of Love · as Henri |
| 1964 | Pariahs of Glory · as Ferrier |
| 1964 | The Pit and the Pendulum · as Le Condamné À Mort |
| 1963 | The Victors · as French Lieutenant |
| 1963 | The Fire Within · as Alain Leroy |
| 1963 | Casablanca, Nest of Spies · as Maurice Desjardins |
| 1963 | The Death Eye of Ceylon · as Dr. Gérard Rinaldi |
| 1963 | Enough Rope · as Walter Saccard |
| 1962 | The Immoral Moment · as Michel Jussieu |
| 1962 | Le rendez-vous de minuit · as Pierre Neyris |
| 1961 | Time Out for Love · as Philippe |
| 1960 | Mi último tango · as Dario Ledesma |
| 1960 | Purple Noon · as Philippe Greenleaf |
| 1959 | The Devil Made a Woman · as José |
| 1959 | This Desired Body · as Henri Messardier |
| 1958 | That Night · as Jean Mallet |
| 1958 | Carve Her Name with Pride · as Jacques |
| 1958 | Elevator to the Gallows · as Julien Tavernier |
| 1957 | He Who Must Die · as Michelis |
| 1956 | Section des disparus · as Juan Milford |
| 1956 | The Blonde Witch · as Laurent Brulard |
| 1955 | The Aristocrats · as Christophe De Conti |
| 1955 | Gueule d'ange · as 'gueule D'ange' |
| 1954 | Casta diva · as Vincenzo Bellini |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi · as Vincenzo Bellini |
| 1953 | Le guérisseur · as André Turenne |
| 1953 | Lucrèce Borgia · as Perotto |
| 1953 | Poison Ivy · as Mickey |
| 1952 | Revenge at Daybreak · as Jim |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins · as The Priest (segment "la Luxure") |
| 1951 | Perfectionist · as François |
| 1949 | Rendezvous in July · as Roger Moulin |
| 2024 | Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol · as Self |
| 2022 | Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant: confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné · as Self |
| 2018 | Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | Midi Trente (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Filmmakers of our time (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Reflets de Cannes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1981 | Histoires extraordinaires (TV Series) |
| 1976 |
| 1981 | Histoires extraordinaires (TV Series) · as Adaptation |
| 1976 | Bartleby · as Adaptation And Dialogue |