Jean-Pierre Aumont

Known for Acting

1/5/1911

Paris, France

Biography

Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 – January 30, 2001) was a French actor.

Known For (141 credits)

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From María África to María Montez, A myth in Technicolor

2014

Documentary about María Montez (the Queen of Technicolor ), a Dominican who became a glamorous Hollywood star in the first half of the 20th century, participating in 26 films .

7.2

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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

2006

In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life

6.0

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life

2000

On safari at the Masai Mara game preserve in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the vast and dangerous wilderness. Later, in Paris, he explores the fine-art scene and the rather wilder cafe scenes of Montmartre with a young Norman Rockwell.

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Jean-Pierre Aumont, charm and laughter

1999

A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont.

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The Proprietor

1996

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

5.1

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Jefferson in Paris

1995

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

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Carné, You Said Carné?

1994

A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.

6.5

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Giorgino

1994

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....

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Les enfants du diable

1994

In 1940, a young teacher who dreams of the Mediterranean is appointed to a remote village in Lozère. Despite the war and the savagery of the world, he awakens in his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But he will have to leave the refuge of childhood and books to become involved in the obligatory violence of the resistance.

2.0

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Los mares del sur

1992

Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.

5.0

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Crimes et jardins

1991

Suzanne is a former singer but also a seductress in her sixties. During a reunion meal with the former musicians of the orchestra that accompanied her on her tours, the young men in love with the lady all hope to seduce her. All except one, who mysteriously finds death in the elevator, hanging by his tie. A hecatomb among the suitors begins. An employee of the morgue decides to launch a personal investigation.

3.7

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Becoming Colette

1991

French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.