Posted on 08/18/2024 2:32:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PARIS (AP) — Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.
With his handsome looks and tender manner, the prolific actor was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of France’s memorable leading men.
Delon was also a producer, appeared in plays and, in later years, in television movies.
French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on X to “a French monument."
“Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream,” he wrote. “Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star.”
Delon's children announced the death on Sunday in a statement to French national news agency Agence France-Presse, a common practice in France. Tributes to Delon immediately started pouring in on social platforms, and all leading French media switched to full-fledged coverage of his rich career.
At the prime of his career, in the 1960s and 1970s, Delon was sought out by some of the world’s top directors, from Luchino Visconti to Joseph Losey.
In his later years, Delon grew disillusioned with the movie industry, saying that money had killed the dream. “Money, commerce and television have wrecked the dream machine,” he wrote in a 2003 edition of newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur. “My cinema is dead. And me, too.”
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His only offense was getting caught. What enlisted person hasn't thought about taking the company jeep to town for some fun?
Yeah but he is Not Guilty.
Cet acteur is correct in the sentence, as Delon was a male actor. Cette actrice for a female.
It’s no big deal.
I bought a polo shirt in Singapore last year with “Alain Delon” on the sleeve. I had never heard of him, and thought it was a fashion brand. :)
Pretty. Very pretty.
I’d have used “connais,” but whatever.
Exactly the same here. Still like and watch Billy Bob Thornton, but anything with Al Pacino is a pass for me.
Oh my goodness, what an attractive man he was. 🔥
Some trivia.
I was recently reading Secret Agenda : Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA by Jim Hougan and Delon’s name came up.
Delon was in DC working on the film Scorpio with Burt Lancaster.
Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis made this comment to the author back in the mid-Eighties.
“I saw him,” Sturgis told me, “and, you know, he’s about my favorite movie actor. My wife says I look a little like him. So I went up and shook his hand. Told him I was Frank Fiorini—I didn’t wanna use Sturgis—and that I thought he was terrific. He said he was in town to make a movie and, later, when I got out of jail, | went to see it. Burt Lancaster in Scorpio. It’s funny—the movie’s about this CIA guy who’s betrayed by the agency. Sorta like what happened to us, y’ know? I mean, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Watergate was a CIA setup. We were just pawns. Anyway, I met Burt Lancaster.”
Jerry Lewis was big in France.
Good point.
Le Samouraï. 1967. Really an outstanding film. I’m due to watch it again.
Daily Mail headline:
How French film legend Alain Delon lived up to his billing as the ‘most beautiful man in the movies’ after his death aged 88
That was a pretty good film, but little did I know little Janie was then in the process of being radicalized by French "intellectuals" like Roger Vadim. Don't know about Delon, but probably.
Btw, "Joy House" was on a double bill with another French film starring an up and coming American, Charles Bronson.
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