Where the Devil can't go, he sends a woman. Goodbye Dear!
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. 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 Marines in Indochina and later taking on odd
jobs in Paris.
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.
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.” 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,
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contribution to world cinema. 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.
Alain Delon, the legendary French actor who made hearts throb around the world, was once
described as the most beautiful man in the movies. But his love
life was tumultuous and often tormented. Despite their clear chemistry, it was not love at
first sight for German actress Romy Schneider. She thought Delon
"arrogant" when they first met in 1958, although she was by far the bigger star after the
success of the trilogy of "Sissi" films in which she played the
Austro-Hungarian empress.
The German-born Velvet Underground singer and actress claimed to have a son with
Delon, Christian Aaron Boulogne, who was born in 1962. Delon always denied he was the
father and as she struggled with drug addiction, the child was brought up by his mother. The
only woman Delon married, the couple met in a Paris nightclub while he was on a night out
with Schneider. She was pregnant when they married in secret in 1964. But the relationship
was always stormy and they divorced in 1969 after Delon took up with one of his co-stars,
Mireille Darc, after returning chastened to France after a year in Hollywood.
described as the most beautiful man in the movies. But his love
life was tumultuous and often tormented. Despite their clear chemistry, it was not love at
first sight for German actress Romy Schneider. She thought Delon
"arrogant" when they first met in 1958, although she was by far the bigger star after the
success of the trilogy of "Sissi" films in which she played the
Austro-Hungarian empress.
Delon, Christian Aaron Boulogne, who was born in 1962. Delon always denied he was the
father and as she struggled with drug addiction, the child was brought up by his mother. The
only woman Delon married, the couple met in a Paris nightclub while he was on a night out
with Schneider. She was pregnant when they married in secret in 1964. But the relationship
was always stormy and they divorced in 1969 after Delon took up with one of his co-stars,
Mireille Darc, after returning chastened to France after a year in Hollywood.
1960s and ’70s not just in France but in regions as diverse as Japan, Communist China
(where a 1975 version of “Zorro” starring Delon as the popular hero was one of the first
Western movies exhibited in the country after the Cultural Revolution) and Latin America.
Delon’s extraordinary appeal was crystallized in “Le Samourai.” Film scholar David Thomson
described him as “the enigmatic angel of French film, only 32 in 1967, and nearly feminine.
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