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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Delon was actually a military veteran.
Delon joined the French navy at age 17 and was sent to Indochina.
Hw wasn’t a very honorable veteran. According to this obituary in today’s Telegraph:
“After applying unsuccessfully to be a test pilot, he joined the French navy, reporting to Brest in 1953. Already known to police in connection with petty offences, he left for Indochina as a wireless operator. He was discharged after stealing a military jeep and spent his 20th birthday in prison. On his return to France, he served a further 45 days near Toulon for stealing a gun in Saigon.”
His heart stopped throbbing.
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.
French coverage...
https://www.parismatch.com/bio/alain-delon
No mentions so far of the Markovic Affair.
But that was many, many moons ago...
Rest In Peace, Alain.
Italian coverage...
Where we’re going, we don’t need rues.
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/
Je ne sais pas, cette acteur.
He was a big deal. And pretty right wing.RIP
Sometimes I just have to put aside the craziness of the actor and recognize when they do some great acting.
Billy Bob Thornton is one of those for me. I have been watching him in Fargo. He does a good job.
Other times, I have a hard time getting past the actors personal life. Robert DeNiro.
You should have paid better attention in French class.
And then there was the child he refused to recognize.
Still, he was a pretty good actor.
RIP
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.
There is nothing wrong with that sentence in French. It is grammatically correct.
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