RIP Alain Delon

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Big European actor heart throb and sex symbol. Women would go super nuts for this guy



Alain Delon, French movie legend, dies at 88


Alain Delon, the French actor, producer and writer whose cool, enigmatic beauty made him an international sex symbol, has died at the age of 88.

“He passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family,” a family statement released to the AFP news agency said. Delon had been battling poor health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2019.

French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the actor. “Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument,” Macron said.

Delon will be remembered as an icon of French and European cinema, who worked with a host of celebrated directors. But he has been criticized for his controversial political views and attitude towards women. Feminists were aghast when he was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or late in his life.


Born in Sceaux, a suburb south of Paris, Delon had a turbulent childhood marked by his parents’ divorce and frequent expulsions from school, before serving in the French Navy and later taking on odd jobs in Paris.

He made his first appearance on film in 1957, playing a hitman in the thriller “Quand la femme s’en mêle,” titled “Send a Woman When the Devil Fails” in English.

This was to be the first of many anti-hero roles for Delon, who went on to become a major figure in European film in the 1960s, working with such lauded directors as René Clément (“Plein Soleil,” 1960, titled “Purple Noon” in the United States), Luchino Visconti (“Rocco and his Brothers,” 1960, and “The Leopard,” 1963) and Jean-Pierre Melville (“Le Samouraï,” 1967).

In 1968, Delon was caught up in a sex, drug and murder scandal involving French high society, known as the Markovic affair. He was questioned but never charged.

He also appeared in many English-language productions, including anthology movie “The Yellow Rolls-Royce” (1964) and Westerns “Texas Across the River” (1966), and “Red Sun” (1971), but he failed to replicate the success he enjoyed in European cinema.

Delon won a César Award, France’s equivalent of an Oscar, for best actor in 1985 for his role as an alcoholic in Bertrand Blier’s “Our Story.” He was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as the passionate, penniless Tancredi in “The Leopard.”

In 1990, he starred as hitchhiker Lennox in ambitious drama “Nouvelle vague” (“New Wave”) directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

His star faded in his later years, but he reappeared on television around the turn of the century, playing veteran detectives in two miniseries: “Fabio Montale” (2002) and “Frank Riva” (2003-04).

In 2005, Delon was made an Officer in the French Legion of Honor for his contribution to world cinema.

Family feud and controversy
Delon’s last major public appearance was when he received a career-honoring Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Women’s rights groups critized the move, citing past statements from the actor in which he admitted slapping women. A petition asking not to honor him collected more than 25,000 signatures.

He was married to actress and model Nathalie Delon from 1964 to 1969 and the couple had one child, Anthony.

Delon had three other children: a son, Christian Boulogne, with singer and actress Nico, and Anouchka Delon and Alain-Fabien Delon with Dutch actress Rosalie van Breemen.

 
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Never heard of him before but I can see why the ladies dug him.
 

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It is known Alain Delon was the love of Romy Schneider's life
to their fans. Perhaps lesser known is that many years after
Schneider's passing Delon openly confessed there was not one
day passing he could forget Romy.

 
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Never heard of him before but I can see why the ladies dug him.
Being a french quebecer I knew cineast Godard, Truffault or Lelouch, and actor Depardieu, Belmondo, Cassel, Reno, Canet, Luchini, Auteuil, Noiret, montant and many more. But iI canot recall anything from Delon! I believe he was the Brad Pitt of yhe late 50’s and 60’z. Some talent, good looking but somehow blend…
 

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It is known Alain Delon was the love of Romy Schneider's life
to their fans. Perhaps lesser known is that many years after
Schneider's passing Delon openly confessed there was not one
day passing he could forget Romy.

He didn't do well in the US for some reason, but he's legendary in Europe.
 

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RIP
Fucking great life. To be a French movie star in the fifties and sixties. I watched Purple Noon, a while ago, which was a version of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Very cool.
He took out Swiss citizenship for tax reasons and not being happy with French immigration policy. I read that he wasn't comfortable with his English skills so he turned down American movie prospects to stay with French cinema.
His English kind of kicks ass here.
 
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