A biographical photo card from L'Encyclopedie du Cinema.
Unfortunately I don't speak French myself, fortunately there is a translation
by the wonderful Sylvie, scroll down to it if you can't read French either .
Translation
Jean-Pierre Aumont
The milkman of Carne-Prevert was a young leading man from 1930 to 1950, with an athletic, persuasivepersona. A lover for whom life was more amusing than sad. From the U.S.A. to Francois Truffaut, he's never stopped ageing gracefully.
Louis Jouvet gave him his start at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees. The movies saw his first appearance in the comedy Jean de la Lune, a triumph in 1931. Aumont is handsome, likeable, always credible whether he's smoking, kissing someone, or parading in an elegant costume. Lac aux Dames brings him notoriety and he makes movie after movie. His characters are sailors, working men, He is Anabella's lover in Hotel du Nord, too cowardly to die, but his love is reborn on the 14th of July. During the war, he enlists in the Free French Forces and makes American propaganda movies, Assignment in Britanny, The Cross of Lorraine. His North-American career as a french lover gets started in small films. He becomes the darling of Hollywood when he marries Maria Montez. He wears the white cap of the sailorman in The Wicked City, a film in which he is joined by his wife Maria Montez (actress) and his brother Francois Villiers (director). But, in 1951, Maria Montez, who had become the "Queen of Technicolor" dies of a heart attack in her bathtub. Aumont makes movies to forget his sorrow.
A handsome old man
His come-back, started out with Castle Keep, is magnified in Day for Night. Older but handsome with his mustache, he is Alexandre, the man who goes to meet someone and is killed on the way to the airport. On stage and on screen, he's in Days in Trees, a play by Marguerite Duras, and moves smoothly between Chabrol and American B movies.