Maurice Ronet
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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.
Known for
Credits
Beau Pere (1981)
as Charly
The Swimming Pool (1969)
as Harry
Purple Noon (1960)
as Philippe Greenleaf
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
as Julien Tavernier
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
as Victor Pegala
Seduction (1973)
as Giuseppe Lagana
Lucrèce Borgia (1953)
as Perotto
Lost Command (1966)
as Capain. Boisfeuras
The Fire Within (1963)
as Alain Leroy
Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
as Philippe Dubaye
Madame Claude (1977)
as Pierre
Bloodline (1979)
as Charles Martin
Mi último tango (1960)
as Dario Ledesma
Sphinx (1981)
as Yvon Mageot
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
as Jacques
He Who Must Die (1957)
as Michelis
The Champagne Murders (1967)
as Paul Wagner
The Healer (1953)
as André Turenne
The Deadly Trap (1971)
as L'homme de l'organisation
The Marseille Contract (1974)
as Inspector Briac
The Victors (1963)
as French Lieutenant
Line of Demarcation (1966)
as Pierre, comte de Damville
Wherever You Are (1964)
as Paul Vallier
The Scarlet Lady (1969)
as François
Circle of Love (1964)
as Henri
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
as The priest (segment "La Luxure")
The Sensuous Assassin (1970)
as Serge
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)
as Piere Gonzague
La Balance (1982)
as Roger Massina
Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
as François Combe
The Devil Made a Woman (1959)
as José
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
as Phillipe
Scandal Man (1972)
as Marc Fontemps
The Pit and the Pendulum (1964)
as Le condamné à mort
Rendezvous in July (1949)
as Roger Moulin
The Vixen (1969)
as Jérôme
Poison Ivy (1953)
as Mickey
Enough Rope (1963)
as Walter Saccard
The Blonde Witch (1956)
as Laurent Brulard
Without Warning (1973)
as Raoul Maury
Endless Horizons (1953)
as Marc Caussade
Casta diva (1954)
as Vincenzo Bellini
Raphael or the Debauched One (1971)
as Raphaël de Lorris
House of Ricordi (1954)
as Vincenzo Bellini
Delphine (1969)
as Jean-Marc, couturier ami de Delphine
Oh, mia bella matrigna (1976)
as Luigi
Golden Night (1976)
as Nuit d'or
The Road to Corinth (1967)
as Dex
Pleasures and Vices (1955)
as 'Gueule d'ange'
The Pebbles of Etratat (1972)
as Kelvo
Surprise Party (1983)
as Georges Levesques
The Golden Mass (1975)
as David
Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974)
as Robert Lucas
The Immoral Moment (1962)
as Michel Jussieu
Emmenez-moi au Ritz (1977)
as Philippe Gregor
Cry of the Heart (1974)
as Mathieu
The Red Room (1973)
as Jean Gerfaud
To the Bitter End (1975)
as Paul Jordan
Liberté I (1962)
as Michel
Devil in the Brain (1972)
as Fabrizio Garces
Last Leap (1970)
as Garal
Barefoot in the Kitchen (2013)
as (archive footage)
Midnight Meeting (1962)
as Pierre Neyris
Time Out for Love (1961)
as Philippe
Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963)
as Maurice Desjardins
Why They Kill Themselves (1976)
Actor
A Devil Under the Pillow (1968)
as Lotario
Scarlet Eye (1963)
as Dr. Gérard Rinaldi
The Thief of Tibadabo (1965)
as Nicolas
The Aristocrats (1955)
as Christophe de Conti
Garden of Delights (1967)
as Carlo
Night Police Station (1974)
as Vittorio Cazzaniga
La Guérilléra (1982)
as Brutus
Castles in Spain (1954)
as Miguel Murillo
Perfectionist (1951)
as François
Desperate Decision (1952)
as Jim
Missing Persons Section (1956)
as Juan Milford
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Mag Bodard, un destin (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Il peccato degli anni verdi (1960)
as Paolo Donati
That Night (1958)
as Jean Mallet
Long March (1966)
as Doctor Chevalier
Assassin's Check (1962)
as Gilbert Vitry
Pariahs of Glory (1964)
as Ferrier
Amador (1965)
as Amador
The Modification (1970)
as Léon Delmont
This Desired Body (1959)
as Henri Messardier
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
as Commissario
A Little, a Lot, Passionately (1971)
as Didier
Un matin rouge (1982)
as Henri
Birds in Peru (1968)
as Rainier
The Crazy Capo Affair (1973)
as Diserens
Undressing a Legacy (2021)
as Self (archive footage)