Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1994 Merci Cupidon! (co-director with Dominique
Abel, Fiona Gordon)
1998 Le Bar des Amants (also screenwriter, dialogist;
shot in 1996–1997)
2000 Jeux pour mourir (short)
2001 La Reine de l’Iode (documentary; video short)
Marnie (7 3')
2002 Les Portraits de Camille (12 26' and 1 52'
documentary)
2003 Histoire sans gravité (video)
Schrapnells (2 50' video)
Je suis Lune (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2004 Dialogues d’Autochtones (video short)
2005 L’Iceberg (co-director with Dominique Abel,
Fiona Gordon; also co-screenwriter; Belgium)
2008 Rumba (co-director with Dominique Abel,
Fiona Gordon; France / Belgium)
RONET, MAURICE (April 13, 1927, Nice, Alpes-
Maritimes, France–March 14, 1983, Paris, France)
The son of stage actors, he made his stage debut
with his parents at age sixteen in Les Deux couverts,
a play by Sacha Guitry. After completing his secondary
studies, he took speech lessons with performers
Robert Dhéry, Julien Bertheau, and Bernard Blier.
He enrolled in the Paris National Conservatoire
and entered fi lms in 1949 (Rendez-vous de Juillet). He
played leading and then supporting roles in more
than ninety fi lms, including Celui qui doit mourir / Colui
che deve morire / USA: He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin,
France / Italy, 1957), Ascenseur pour l’Echafaud
/ UK: Lift to the Scaffold / USA: Frantic (Louis Malle,
1958), Plein Soleil / Delitto in pieno sole / UK: Blazing
Sun / UK and USA: Purple Noon / USA: Lust for Evil
(René Clément, France / Italy, 1960), Le Feu follet /
Fuoco fatuo / UK: A Time to Live and a Time to Die /
USA: The Fire Within (Louis Malle, France / Italy, 1963),
Lost Command (Mark Robson, USA, 1966), La Femme
infi dèle / Stephane, una moglie infedele / UK and USA:
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, France / Italy,
1969), La Piscine / La piscina / UK: The Sinners / USA:
The Swimming Pool (Jacques Deray, France / Italy), and
Raphaël ou le Débauché (Michel Deville, 1971). He
directed several fi lms and TV movies, notably some
adaptations from Herman Melville and Edgar Allan
Poe. His interviews with his friend, journalist Hervé
Le Boterf, were collected in a book (1977 Le Métier
de Comédien, Editions France-Empire). He died of
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cancer at age fi fty-fi ve. Formerly married to actress
Maria Pacôme (1950–1956), he was the partner of
Josephine Chaplin (1977–1983). Other book: 1973
L’Île des Dragons (Editions France-Empire).
Filmography
1965 Le Voleur de Tibidabo / La vida es magnífi ca (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist; France
/ Spain)
1973 L’Île des Dragons / Vers l’Île Dragon (documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
1978 Bartleby (originally shot for TV; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; shot in 1976)
Television Filmography
1973 Mozambique (documentary)
1978 Ni Lune ni Etoiles
La Folie du Doute
Orient-Express
1979 Histoires insolites (episode “Folies douces”;
also actor)
1981 Ligeia (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Histoires extraordinaires: Le Scarabée d’Or /
Escarabajo de oro (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
RONSSIN, JEAN-PIERRE (June 4, 1953, Paris,
France–)
A fi lm director since 1984, he also co-wrote screenplays
for other fi lmmakers (1985 Bâton Rouge, Rachid
Bouchareb; 1990 La Discrète / UK and USA: The
Discreet, Christian Vincent; 2003 Le Correcteur, Patrice
Ambard).
Filmography
1984 Numéro 47 (short; also screenwriter)
1985 L’Objectif (short; also screenwriter, dialogue
writer)
1987 Sortie de Bain (short; also screenwriter, dialogue
writer)
1994 L’Irrésolu (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1987 Souris noire (20 13'; co-director only)
1990 Fleur bleue (co-director only)
ROSCA, GABRIEL (Gabriel Calbours / 1895,
France–1943, France)
A former actor (1920 L’ombra, Roberto Roberti, Italy;
L’Aviateur masqué, Robert Péguy; 1926 Mademoiselle
from Armentieres, Maurice Elvey, UK; The Triumph of