Maurice Ronet
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Ronet in a scene from the Italian film Seduction (1973)
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| Born |
Maurice Julien Marie Robinet 13 April 1927 Nice, France |
| Died | 14 March 1983 (aged 55) Paris, France |
| Education | Centre du Spectacle de la Rue-Blanche Paris Conservatoire |
| Occupation | Film actor, director, and writer |
| Years active | 1949–1983 |
| Partner(s) |
Josephine Chaplin (1977–1983; his death) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Émile Robinet Gilberte Dubreuil |
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 fourteen, 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 twenty-two 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 along 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 went on to become one of European cinema's most popular and prolific actors. Between 1955 and 1975 he appeared in over sixty films. He often portrayed characters who were in conflict with themselves or society.
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