Maria Pacôme
Date of birth: 1923-07-18
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Maria Pacome, Simone Maria Pacôme
Biography
Maria Pacôme (18 July 1923 – 1 December 2018) was a French actress and playwright. Born on 18 July 1923 in Paris, Maria Pacôme was the daughter of Maurice Pacôme and Germaine Hivonait. Her father was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp and her brother was shot for being a Communist. When her father came back, Pacôme often found herself defending her mother against her father's violence. Maria began her higher education at Le Cours Simon in 1941, when she was 18. She was classmates with Michèle Morgan, Danièle Delorme, and her future spouse, Maurice Ronet. Pacôme married Ronet in 1950. She would set aside her career until their divorce in 1956. She began her stage acting career in 1956 with La Reine et les Insurgés, written by Ugo Betti and directed by Michel Vitold. In 1958, she acted in Oscar, written by Claude Magnier. She acted alongside Pierre Mondy and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the play. Pacôme also appeared in N'écoutez pas, mesdames! by Sacha Guitry in 1962, Les Grosses Têtes by Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault in 1969, and Joyeuses Pâques by Poiret in 1981. Pacôme's first appearance on the big screen came in 1959 with Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (Come Dance with Me), directed by Michel Boisrond. She later took on numerous supporting roles, most notably in The Troops of St. Tropez, Up to His Ears, and Le Distrait. Afterwards, she achieved leading roles in La situation est grave… mais pas désespérée by Jacques Besnard, Les Sous-doués by Claude Zidi, and The Crisis (La Crise) by Coline Serreau. Pacôme wrote seven plays: Apprends-moi Céline, Le Jardin d'Éponine, On m'appelle Émilie, Les Seins de Lola, Et moi et moi, Les Désarrois de Gilda Rumeur, and L'Éloge de ma paresse. She wrote her memoirs, titled Maria sans Pacôme, in 2007. Pacôme appeared in several TV movies, most notably starring in Docteur Sylvestre. In 2006, she played the role of Hortense Bertin in the drama Les Secrets du volcan, directed by Michaëla Watteaux. In 2011, she was the voice actor for the character "Granny" in the movie Titeuf. Maria Pacôme died on 1 December 2018 in Ballainvilliers, France following a tumor near the amygdala. Her burial at the Père Lachaise Cemetery on 10 December 2018 was attended by celebrities such as Daniel Auteuil and Bernard Le Coq. Source: Article "Maria Pacôme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964-09-08
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such
The Under-Gifted
1980-04-30
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high s
Titeuf
2011-04-06
Titeuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting the
Up to His Ears
1965-12-04
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
Mean Spirit
2003-11-05
Vincent Poirel dirige une multinationale du BTP. Il a tout obtenu dans la vie sauf un enfant. Sa soc
Come Dance with Me!
1959-12-18
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a
Arrête de pleurer Pénélope
2012-06-06
Chloé, Léonie and Pénélope, three friends who have not set eyes on each other for many years, are re
A Mouse with the Men
1964-07-16
Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meeting
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
1976-03-31
Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the
Kisses Till Monday
1974-11-27
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman
A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
1997-08-13
French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays
The Crisis
1992-12-02
Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries t
No Problem!
1975-06-18
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A
1914 the Glorious Summer
1996-08-21
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,e
Les Seins de Lola
1987-01-09
The plot of the play revolves around Lola, a sexagenarian, divorced and not very well off, who gets
La Maison de campagne
1969-11-10
What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house.
Le don d'Adèle
1972-10-16
Les Gorilles
1964-12-23
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Le noir te va si bien
1975-12-22
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
1962-12-19
Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduatin
Tender Scoundrel
1966-12-12
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is n
An Unlikely Couple
2001-06-11
Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habi
Constance aux enfers
1964-05-30
Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives acros
Distracted
1970-12-09
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem
The Busybody
1961-12-20
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for
Rien ne va plus
1964-06-18
Achille and Roméo, handymen at a casino, one day find a corpse at the bottom of the pool they're cle
Les Combinards
1966-02-02
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap
Que personne ne sorte
1964-07-29
Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassado
Le Dernier Baiser
1977-05-11
The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and
The Love Game
1960-06-01
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in t
Une villa pour deux
2003-11-05
After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with hi
La Maison du lac
2008-08-01
Apprends-moi, Céline
1982-10-25
De doux dingues
1972-01-24
Le jardin d'Eponine
1984-10-22
She is not very brilliant, Eponine's career ... But what, there is not only the theater in life! Go
Appelez-moi maître
1977-05-26
Interdit au public
1966-12-22
Backstage at a Paris theater, a famous, exasperatingly fatuous playwright learns that the actress wh
L'amant de Madame Vidal
1975-01-13
Le Garçon d’appartement
1980-11-21
Yves is a young man too lazy to work encrusted in a young girl he met on the street and no longer wa
L'éloge de ma paresse
2006-04-03
Et moi... et moi!
1990-01-16
Silence... We're Shooting
1976-05-26
A Strange Kind of Colonel
1968-04-24
Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. B
Emma
2011-09-07
A teen's life changes when her new half-brother arrives accompanied by an elusive stranger while spe
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009-10-13