Anecdotes

Friends Charles Boyer and Ronald Reagan attended his wedding to Maria Montez. Boyer was best man, but Reagan kissed the bride.

After filming La croix de Lorraine (1943), he left the United States and joined the Free French Army. He was sent to North Africa and participated in Operation Torch, specifically in Tunisia. He later moved with the Allied armies through Italy and France. Was seriously injured when his jeep struck a land mine on a bridge and blew up. French Brig. Gen. Charles-Joseph Brosset, also in the jeep, was killed.

Had a giant collection of popular and classical records, as well as a large library filled with books of poetry and the works of Charles Dickens.

Made his American debut on stage with Katharine Cornell in a 1942 San Franciso production of "Rose Burke" reading but not speaking English. He learned his lines phonetically and his understudy at the time, Gregory Peck, helped him with his English. The play closed in Toronto.

He was awarded the Legion Of Honor, The Croix de Guerre with 2 palms.

Three children: Tina Aumont (with Maria Montez), Jean-Claude Aumont and Patrick Aumont (with Marisa Pavan).

Buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

He was of Dutch Jewish and French Jewish descent, and was a fourth cousin, twice removed, of Dutch actor Michiel Huisman, through their common ancestors, Levie Lion Eliazer Lioni Stokvis and Sara Joseph Levie; and a seventh cousin of American filmmaker Christopher Guest.

Brother-in-law of Pier Angeli.

Brother of François Villiers and father of Tina Aumont.

He was the son of Suzanne (Cahen), an actress, and Alexandre Salomons, who owned La Maison du Blanc, a linen department store.

Ex-brother-in-law of Julia Andre.

Father-in-law of Christian Marquand.

Wrote the comedy The Emperor of China for the theatre intending to play the lead when it was put on in Paris.

Uncle of Aruna Villiers.

Nephew of writer and director Georges Berr.