Maurice Ronet

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Maurice Ronet (born April 13, 1927 in Nice , † March 14, 1983 in Paris ; actually Maurice Robinet ) was a French actor and film director.

Life

Ronet came from a family of actors. He studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he was a student of Jean-Louis Barrault . He also received help from Bernard Blier , Robert Dhéry , Julien Bertheau and René Simon and at the Conservatory from René Alexandre. Already during his training Ronet could be seen on the Parisian stages from 1947 in plays by Jean Racine , Pierre Corneille and Alfred de Musset as well as in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles and Jean-Pierre Aumont's comedy Un Beau Dimanche .

Ronet had versatile musical talents, in addition to his acting skills, he also painted and worked as a sculptor, formed ceramics and was an excellent organ player. He also wrote philosophical essays on Søren Kierkegaard and Arthur Schopenhauer . Two films by Nouvelle Vague director Louis Malle , one of the crime film Elevator to the Scaffold (1958) with Jeanne Moreau and the other of the literary film The Irrlicht (1963), an outstanding portrait of a suicide, became a great personal success for Ronet . In addition to Malle, Ronet also shot with Claude Chabrol and, alongside Alain Delon , Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Louis Trintignant, was one of the most internationally renowned film actors in France. Ronet's most successful films also include the adaptation based on a book by Patricia Highsmith by René Clément with Alain Delon and Marie Laforêt Only the sun was a witness .

His film partners were Romy Schneider , Jean Seberg , Simone Signoret , Marina Vlady , Lilli Palmer , Brigitte Bardot , Annie Girardot and, for example, Virna Lisi , Mylène Demongeot , Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway ; He made four films with Alain Delon.

In 1965 he made a film with Le voleur du Tibidabo in Barcelona as a writer, director and leading actor. In the 1969 crime film The Swimming Pool , he worked with Alain Delon and Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin . Another collaboration with Romy Schneider resulted in the 1970 mystery thriller The Beloved of the Other as well as in the international production Blood Trail , where his partners were Audrey Hepburn and Irene Papas in addition to Romy Schneider . In 1974 he made his first German film in a French co-production The answer only knows the wind based on a novel by Johannes Mario Simmel . In the following year he worked again in a Simmel film adaptation, which appeared under the title Bis zur bitteren Neige . His partners were Suzy Kendall and Susanne Uhlen .

The most famous film under his direction was the drama Bartleby (1976). In addition to his work in film, Ronet devoted himself to music and philosophy, both of which he had also studied. Ronet was married twice: from 1950 to 1956 to Maria Pacôme and from 1977 until his death to the Chaplin daughter Josephine Chaplin , the mother of his son. Ronet died of cancer in March 1983 at the age of 55.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director and writer

  • 1965: Le voleur du Tibidabo
  • 1973: Vers L'île des Dragons (documentary short film; also camera)
  • 1976: Bartleby
  • 1981: Ligeia (TV movie)
  • 1981: Edgar Allan Poe - Unusual Stories (2 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neuer Film-Kurier No. 158: Until bitter Neige - Maurice Ronet, October series 1975, p. 10, Verlag Neues Filmprogramm, Vienna.
  2. ↑ Le JDD: Maurice Ronet, une hésitation devant la vie. Retrieved November 13, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ronet, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinet, Maurice (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1983
Place of death Paris