[SeekAndFind]

Delon was actually a military veteran.

Delon joined the French navy at age 17 and was sent to Indochina.

[Libloather]

No idea.

[RummyChick]

age gets us all

[Leep]

His heart stopped throbbing.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

"He briefly presided over the Miss France jury but stepped down in 2013 after a disagreement over some controversial statements, which included critiques on women, LGBTQIA+ rights, and migrants. Despite these controversies, he received a Palme d’Honneur at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, a decision that sparked further debate"

Hmm... I wonder what those remarks were? Unwoke, apparently.

Depardieu & Schwarzenegger also stepped into deep doodoo in similar ways, as I recall, causing outrage among the global elites. Feminists & others were outraged.

[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Alain.

[Ezekiel]

Where we’re going, we don’t need rues.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Never heard of him, but I will look up his movies if he was, ‘all that and a bag of chips!’ ;)

87 movies? WOW!

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074066411/

[ClearCase_guy]

He was a big deal. And pretty right wing.RIP

[UnwashedPeasant]

He was great in "Purple Noon" (1960), based in the book "The Talented Mr. Ripley." He has many other highly regarded movies I hope to see.

[x]

And then there was the child he refused to recognize.

Still, he was a pretty good actor.

RIP

[Flavious_Maximus]

I remember is role as William Wilson in Spirits of the Dead. Very strange film which also featured Jane and Peter Fonda in an incestuous romance.

He reminded me of another great French actor, Jean Sorel.

[Aria]

A song I love that he does with Dalida.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAvhujK4nA

[Mr. Jeeves]

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. :)

[Biblebelter]

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.”

[outofsalt]

Jerry Lewis was big in France.

[FoxInSocks]

Le Samouraï. 1967. Really an outstanding film. I’m due to watch it again.

[Tax-chick]

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