Program Credits From the Playbill for Des Journees Entieres Dans Les Arbres (Days in Trees) at The Ambassador Theatre in 1976
Jean-Pierre Aumont
The Son
Jean-Pierre Aumont has an impressive and varied career which was launched with his performance as Oedipe in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, directed by Louis Jouvet. He later appeared in Pelleas and Melisande, Design For Living, As You Like It, Amphytrion 38 and the Jean Renoir productions of Julius Caesar and The Tempest. In 1942 he made his U.S. debut in San Francisco with Katherine Cornell in Rose Burke, launching his American film career that same year with Assignment in Brittany and The Cross of Lorraine.
At the end of World War II, Mr. Aumont returned to Hollywood and co-starred with Ginger Rogers in Heartbeat, Yvonne de Carlo in Scheherazade, Maria Montez (his first wife) in Atlantis and Leslie Caron in Lili. Mr. Aumont has made 60 French films, the initial being Lac aux Dames, followed by Drole de Drame and Hotel du Nord. More recent films include Seven Deadly Sins, Day for Night, A Horse Without a Head, Hilda Crane with Jean Simmons, Blind man's Buff, Castle Keep, The Happy Hooker and Mahogany with Diana Ross.
In his first New York stage appearance, Mr. Aumont was starred in My Name Is Aquilon, Philip Barry's adaptation of Mr. Aumont's own comedy, L'Empereur de Chine, which had been a hit in Paris years earlier. He is the author of five plays, including a dramatisation of Irwin Shaw's Lucy Crown, which enjoyed great success overseas. When tapped for the role of Vivien Leigh's consort in Tovarich, he was in Paris starring with Melina Mercouri in Flora. Tovarich ran for a year and in it Mr. Aumont scored as an accomplished song and dance man. He toured in the musical with Eva Gabor, and on the west coast he starred in Incident at Vichy at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Los Angeles. Other U.S. credits include South Pacific opposite Betsy Palmer, and Camino Real with Jessica Tandy and Al Pacino. In 1966 Mr. Aumont made his night-club debut with his lovely wife, Marisa Pavan, at the Persian Room in the Plaza Hotel, and, aside from asserting himself as a playwright, has written a book of short stories, La Pomme de mon oeil, and his memoirs as an actor recently published in Paris are already on the best seller list, under the title Le Soleil et les Ombres.