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\nFILE – Actor Alain Delon poses for photographers at the photo call for his honorary Palme D\u2019Or award at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 19, 2019
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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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s memorable leading men. Delon was also a producer, appeared in plays, and, in later years, in television movies.<\/p>\n

His children announced the death on Sunday in a statement to the French national news agency Agence France-Presse<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n

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\nFILE – French actor Alain Delon is escorted by American actresses Jane Davenport, left, and Pamela Huntington after their arrival from New York at Orly airport in Paris on Aug.19, 1970.
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At the prime of his career, in the 1960s and 1970s, Delon was sought out by some of the world\u2019s 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. \u201cMoney, commerce and television have wrecked the dream machine,\u201d he wrote in a 2003 edition of newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur<\/i>. \u201cMy cinema is dead. And me, too.\u201d But he continued to work frequently, appearing in several TV movies in his 70s.<\/p>\n

Delon\u2019s presence was unforgettable, whether playing morally depraved heroes or romantic leading men. He first drew acclaim in 1960 with Plein Soleil<\/i>, directed by R\u00e9ne Cl\u00e9ment, in which he played a murderer trying to take on the identity of his victims. He made several Italian movies, working most notably with Visconti in the 1961 film Rocco and His Brothers<\/i>, in which Delon portrays a self-sacrificing brother intent on helping his sibling. The movie won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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The 1963 Visconti film Le Guepard<\/i> (The Leopard<\/i>) starring Delon won the Palme d\u2019Or, the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival. His other films included Cl\u00e9ment\u2019s Is Paris Burning<\/i>, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola among others; La Piscine<\/i> (The Sinners<\/i>), directed by Jacques Deray; and, in a departure, Losey\u2019s The Assassination of Trotsky<\/i> in 1972.<\/p>\n

In 1968, Delon began producing movies \u2014 26 of them by 1990 \u2014 part of a frenzied and self-assured momentum that he maintained throughout his life. Delon\u2019s confidence was palpable in his statement to Femme<\/i> in 1996, \u201cI like to be loved the way I love myself!\u201d This echoed his charismatic screen persona.<\/p>\n

Delon continued to captivate audiences for years \u2014 on the way courting criticism for comments deemed outdated. In 2010, he appeared in Un mari de trop<\/i> (One Husband Too Many<\/i>) and returned to the stage in 2011 with An Ordinary Day<\/i>, alongside his daughter Anouchka.<\/p>\n

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\u2019Honneur at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, a decision that sparked further debate.<\/p>\n

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\nFILE- In this May 19, 2019 file photo, French actor Alain Delon poses for photographers at the photo call for his honorary Palme D\u2019Or award at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France.
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Born on Nov. 8, 1935, in Sceaux, just south of Paris, Delon was placed with a foster family after his parents\u2019 separation when he was 4. He then attended a Roman Catholic boarding school. At 17, Delon joined the navy and was sent to Indochina. Back in France in 1956, he held various odd jobs from waiter to a carrier in the Paris meat market before turning to acting.<\/p>\n

Delon had a son, Anthony, in 1964, with his then-wife Nathalie Canovas, who played alongside him in Jean-Pierre Melville\u2019s The Samurai<\/i> in 1967. He had two more children, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien, with a later companion, Rosalie van Breemen, with whom he produced a song and video clip in 1987. He was also widely believed to have been the father of Ari Boulogne, the son of German model and singer Nico, although he never publicly acknowledged paternity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very good at three things: my job, foolishness and children,\u201d he said in a 1995 L\u2019Express<\/i> interview. Delon juggled diverse activities throughout his life, from setting up a stable of trotting horses to developing cologne for men and women, followed by watches, glasses, and other accessories. He also collected paintings and sculptures.<\/p>\n

Delon announced an end to his acting career in 1999, only to continue, appearing in Bertrand Blier\u2019s Les Acteurs<\/i> (The Actors<\/i>) the same year. Later he appeared in several television police shows. In 2022, in the last movie he made before his retirement, he starred with Juliette Binoche in The Empty House<\/i>, directed by Patrice Leconte.<\/p>\n

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\nFILE – French actor Alain Delon of France gets the attention of actress Angie Dickinson during a conversation at a cocktail party in Beverly Hills, Calif.on April 16, 1963.
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His good looks sustained him. In August 2002, Delon told a weekly magazine, L\u2019Humanite Hebdo<\/i>, that he wouldn\u2019t still be in the business if that weren\u2019t so. \u201cYou\u2019ll never see me old and ugly,\u201d he said when he was already nearing 70, \u201cbecause I\u2019ll leave before, or I\u2019ll die.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it was in 2019 that Delon encapsulated his feelings about his life\u2019s meaning during a gala event honoring him at the Cannes Film Festival. \u201cOne thing I\u2019m sure about is that if there\u2019s something I\u2019m proud of, really, the only thing, it\u2019s my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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