Alain Delon, Iconic French Actor And Heartthrob, Dead At 88
Huff PostFILE - Actor Alain Delon poses for photographers at the photo call for his honorary Palme D'Or award at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 19, 2019. via Associated Press PARIS — 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. “Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star.” Delon’s children announced the death on Sunday in a statement to French national news agency Agence France-Presse, a common practice in France. The 1963 Visconti film “Le Guepard” starring Delon won the Palme d’Or, the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival. “We lose a precious friend and a man with a big heart.” French film producer Alain Terzian said Delon was “the last of the giants.” “It’s a page being turned in the history of French cinema,” he told France Inter radio.
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