Michel Aumont

After a stint at the Conservatory and then at the Comédie Française, Michel Aumont distinguished himself on the stage until the mid-1970s. Television then called on him, mainly for adaptations of large pieces from the classical repertoire. At the same time, the actor made his film debut in 1972 with a role in La Femme en bleu by Michel Deville.

Launched by the latter, the actor does not take long to seduce the biggest names in directing, who often make him play the roles of curators, such as Claude Chabrol for Nada or Claude Zidi for La Course à l'echalote. We also see it in the credits of the Toy by Francis Veber, Mort d'un pourri by Georges Lautner or even Coup de tête by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Particularly appreciated secondary actor, also employed as a politician or lawyer, Michel Aumont is a little more discreet in the 80s, appearing however in the credits of the Compères de Francis Veber, in 1983, and Un dimanche à la Bertrand Tavernier campaign a year later.

The actor remakes the commissioner in 1990 for Ripoux against ripoux and receives ten years later the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor. Varying the genres, he then illustrated himself in costumes in the Beaumarchais, the insolent of Edouard Molinaro and continued his rich collaboration with Francis Veber, finding him for his works of the 2000s (Le Placard, Tais-toi !, La Lining). In 2004, he made an appearance in Clara et moi by Arnaud Viard before slipping into the role of the chief of protocol, in the comedy Palais royal! by Valérie Lemercier the following year.

After two years focused on the theater, the actor returns to the cinema thanks to the drama in which he plays the father of Catherine Frot. He then turned to television, chaining series (On the right side) and television films (Robbery in the family, The Dead Queen). After having participated in the choral comedy Bancs publics (Versailles right bank) by Bruno Podalydès, Michel Aumont tries his hand at political thriller with La Sainte Victoire, rubbing shoulders with Christian Clavier and Clovis Cornillac. The year 2010 is a busy year for him, the actor being in less than a month to the poster of two comedies, All the girls cry of Judith Godrèche, and The Guests of my father by Anne Le Ny, as well. that of the detective film of Alexandre Arcady, Like the five fingers of the hand, with Patrick Bruel,

The actor returned to comedy a few months later by playing the "so scottish" Sir Woolish in Imogene McCarthery, before returning to drama, a genre in which he began by taking on Sophocles in the theater. He thus plays in Un balcon sur la mer, then Je m'appelle Bernadette, for which he takes on the costume of Father Peyramale struggling with Bernadette Soubirous, the miraculous of Lourdes. Definitely at ease in all registers, Michel Aumont likes to vary genres, like a musician doing his scales. In 2012, one of the last great lords of French theater did not hesitate to participate in the uninhibited La Clinique de l'Amour! and in the very light Paris Manhattan,

In recent years, he had returned to the cinema for Olivier Baroux (We walked in Bangkok), Jean-François Davy (Long live the crisis) and Patrice Gautier (Me and the Che). He had finally been the father of François Damiens in the funny comedy News from the planet Mars.