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Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country.

Delon was born in Sceaux, France, and at 17 he enlisted in the French Marines, serving in Indochina as a parachutist. His breakthrough as a film star came with Plein Soleil
, a 1960 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
. He also gave tremendous performances in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard and, perhaps his finest moment, Le Samouraï
. His later work has not reached these heights, and his decline is characteristic of the nouvelle vague of French actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo
.

Delon's boyishly handsome looks made him a sex symbol in France and internationally and made it easy for him to get leading parts in the United States and Great Britain.

In 1962, had a son (Ari Boulogne) with Nico
, a Warhol superstar and best known for a collaboration with The Velvet Underground.

In 1968, Delon and his wife Natalie were at the center of a massive sex, drug and murder scandal when their bodyguard Stefan Markovitch was found shot dead in a garbage dump.

In 1973, he made a duet with the French pop singer Dalida on "Paroles, paroles", which was a big hit in France, Japan, Canada, and many other countries.

After a string of box office failures in the 80s and 90s, culminating in the surprising box-office failure of Patrice Leconte's film, Une Chance sur deux, Delon announced his decision to give up acting in 1997 but he still acts occasionally.

Partial filmography

  • Rocco e i suoi fratelli
    (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960)
  • Plein soleil
    (Purple Noon, 1960)
  • L'Eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962)
  • Il Gattopardo
    (The Leopard, 1963)
  • Mélodie en sous-sol (Any Number Can Win, 1963)
  • L'Insoumis (The Unvanquished, 1964)
  • Le Samouraï
    (The Godson, 1967)
  • Les Aventuriers (The Last Adventure, 1967)
  • Le Clan des Siciliens (The Sicilian Clan, 1969)
  • Le Cercle rouge
    (The Red Circle, 1970)
  • Deux hommes dans la ville (Two Men in Town, 1973)
  • Les Granges brulées (Suspect of Murder, 1973)
  • Comme un boomerang (Boomerang, 1976)
  • Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein, 1976)
  • The Concorde: Airport '79
    (1979)
  • Tegeran-43
    (Teheran 43: Spy Ring, 1981)

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