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