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By Anita Gates
Alain Delon, the intensely handsome French actor who, working with some of the most respected European managers of the 20th century, portrayed bloodless Corsican gangsters as convincingly as he did ardent Italian lovers, has died. He is 88 years old.
According to information sent by his relatives to the French news agency AFP, Delon died early Sunday morning at his home in Douchy-Montcorbon.
A few hours later, President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to him in a message on social media, declaring: “Melancholic, popular, reserved, he is more than a star: a French monument. “
At his peak in the 1960s and 1970s, Delon was a prominent foreign star, well-paid and sought after by the wonderful authors of the time.
When he made his first impression in the gangster genre, as a sad-eyed younger holy brother in “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960), Luchino Visconti was in the director’s chair. Two years later, when Delon played a sexy inventory trader, in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Eclisse. “
And “The Samurai” (1967), released in the United States under the name “The Godson”, and the film about the jewel heist “The Red Circle” (1970), in which Mr. Delon, a sinister and mustachioed ex-convict, were either directed through Jean-Pierre Melville, patron saint of the French New Wave.
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