If you're wondering who this was: in the English-speaking world, he's probably most famous for <i>Le Samourai</i>, which was a great film and an influence on a host of other works, most recently being <i>Drive.</i> I really enjoyed <i>Un flic</i> too.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuhPR3xeJm0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuhPR3xeJm0</a>
My favorite picture of him, with another iconic french star of the same era, Brigitte Bardot:<p><a href="https://www.entrevue.fr/de/brigitte-bardot-exprime-son-inquietude-pour-la-sante-dalain-delon/" rel="nofollow">https://www.entrevue.fr/de/brigitte-bardot-exprime-son-inqui...</a>
Alain Delon putting on the rizz: <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2508/8586/t/6/assets/description_image_marianne-faithfull.jpg?14243084856038419497" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2508/8586/t/6/assets/descr...</a>
Something missing from the obituaries is a funny trivia story about the guns they found at Delon's home in February 2024. 72 guns, 3000 rounds of ammo and no permit. He even had his own gun range. The lack of a permit didn't seem to be a problem until he was 88 and in need of a nurse.
It's interesting how celebrity culture works that most Americans have probably never heard of this guy.<p>French people know essentially every American movie star but there is almost no culture flow in the other direction when it comes to film.<p>Some might suggest that there is a language barrier since French is not as widely spoken as English internationally... Yet I was surprised to find out that, for example, a lot of Russians above a certain age know about French film celebrities. The language barrier does not seem to have been a problem in that case.<p>I think maybe it's partly because most Americans will refuse to watch films with subtitles whereas people in most other countries who don't speak English are used to it.
I remember him for this song he made with Dalida. His deep voice is something I wished I had.
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I only knew of him from Zorro (1975) [1], and I remember that mainly due to the whacky soundtrack [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro_(1975_Italian_film)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro_(1975_Italian_film)</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBqP75axK8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBqP75axK8</a>