Jean-Pierre Aumont

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AKA: Jean Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons
Nationality: French
Birthdate: 01/05/1911
Birthplace: Paris, France
Death Date: 01/30/2001

biography

Handsome, romantic Continental lead for over five decades. Aumont began his career on the French stage, scoring a triumph in Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (1934). He entered film in France in the early 1930s and, after fighting with the Free French Army and earning both the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, made his Hollywood debut in "Assignment in Brittany" (1943). Aumont has alternated between stage and film and US and international productions. His most representative roles came as the suave, philandering magician, Marco the Magnificent, in "Lili" (1953) and as an aging matinee Continued

Credits

Franz Legendre
1996
D'Hancarville
1995
Mr Araya
King Louis XVI
Monsieur Henri Lee
Lamoureux the Lover
Alan Stewart
Cardinal de Rohan
Christiano Rosetti
Alexandre
Marc
Monsignor Delgado
Marquis DePuisargue
Count DeMaldorais
Jean-Fidel Mileau
Muffat
Andre Marchand
Yves St Jacques
Captain Eric Evoir
Renault de Saint-Jean d'Angely
Claude Marchand
Tallard

milestones

Year
Milestone
1930 
Debut on French stage
1931 
Film acting debut in "Echec et mat"
1934 
Won acclaim in stage production of Cocteau's play, "La Machine Infernale"
1939 
Joined the French Tank Corps; won the Croix de Guerre; medically discharged (1941)
1941 
Enlisted with the Free French Army and fought in Tunisia, Italy and France; wounded and earned Legion of Honor
Continued

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