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Biography
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 [1], 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
Delon on the cover of The Queen is Dead, by The Smiths
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)
