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Revision as of 16:16, 24 July 2008 by 70.99.121.226 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Maurice Ronet, born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet, (13 April 1927 - 14 March 1983) was a French film actor, director and writer.
Ronet was born in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the son of professional actors Emile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where Jean-Louis Barrault was one of his mentors. He made his fim debut in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). Shortly thereafter he married actress Maria Pacôme and departed to southern France to try his hand at ceramics, painting, writing and music for a couple of years. Throughout the early 50's he appeared in small parts in films with an eye toward becoming a director. However, he slowly came to discover a renewed passion for acting, and made his breakthrough in Louis Malle's first film Elevator to the Gallows (1957). He went on to act in many French, Spanish and Italian films in the 1950s, 60s and 70's notably Plein Soleil (1960), La Dénonciation (1962), The Fire Within (Le Feu Follet) (1963), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , Claude Chabrol's The Champagne Murders (La Scandale, 1967) and La Femme infidèle (1968), and La Piscine (1969). He worked multiple times with Louis Malle and with actors Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau. He did direct two films of his own - Le Voleur de Tibidabo (1964) and an adaptation of Herman Melville's Bartleby (1976) as well as two documentaries "Vers l'île des dragons" (1974) and "Mozambique" for French television. He also wrote 2 books : "L'ile des Dragons" (1973) and "Le Métier de Comédien" (1977), an honest and through discussion on the acting profession.
His marriage to Maria Pacôme (b. July 18, 1923 in Paris) ended in divorce in 1956 and lived with Josephine Chaplin, daughter of Charles Chaplin, from 1977 until his death, by whom he had a son, Julien (b. 1980).
He died in Paris of cancer.
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