Alain Delon

Alain Delon (full name Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon; genus. 1935) is a French theater and film actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.

World movie star and sex symbol of the 60s - 80s. He enjoyed great success with Soviet women, as a result of which his name became a household name.

There are many interesting facts in the biography of Alain Delon, which we will talk about in this article.

So, before you is a short biography of Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon.

Biography of Alain Delon

Alain Delon was born on November 8, 1935 in the small town of Sau, located near Paris.

His father, Fabienne Delon, owned his own cinema, and his mother, Edith Arnold, was a pharmacist by profession, but worked as a ticket collector in her husband's cinema.

Childhood and youth

The first tragedy in the biography of the future actor occurred at the age of 2, when his parents decided to divorce. A couple of years later, his mother remarried to Paul Boulogne, who ran a sausage shop.

The woman began to help Paul run the business, as a result of which she had absolutely no time and energy left to raise her son. This led to the fact that Alena began to be raised by the governess of Madame Nero.

It is worth noting that the child lived with the spouses of Nero for several years, until their tragic death.

Delon spoke warmly about the time spent with his foster family. During his school years, he was distinguished by bad behavior, as a result of which he was expelled from 6 educational institutions. Later, the mother and stepfather decided to introduce the 14-year-old teenager to the family business, since they understood that he would hardly be able to successfully graduate from school.

Alain Delon was not against such an idea, so he began to study the butcher profession with diligence. After a year of study, he received a diploma and began to work in his specialty.

Initially, Alain worked in a butcher shop, after which he got a job in a sausage shop. When he was 17 years old, he came across an advertisement for the recruitment of test pilots. Unexpectedly for himself, the young man fired up the dream of becoming a pilot.

As a result, Delon ended up in the paratroopers and was sent to fight in Indochina. After the hardest military training, he was sent to Saigon in the status of a senior sailor. Here he often violated discipline, for which reason he loaded rice all day long and sat in the guardhouse in the evening.

At the end of his service in 1956, Alain left for Paris, where he briefly worked as a waiter in a pub. On the advice of friends, he began attending various screen tests, as well as showing his photos to producers. It is curious that the producers told him something like this: "You are too beautiful, you will not have a career."

However, Alain Delon did not give up and went to Cannes, hoping to be noticed. Here he came to the attention of the famous manager Harry Wilson, who invited the guy to go to Hollywood.

Delon had already begun to pack his things, when he was suddenly introduced to the famous director Yves Allegre. The master convinced the young man to stay in France, offering him a secondary role in his new film.

Films

Alain appeared on the big screen in 1957, playing in the film When a Woman Intervenes. Then he again got a small role in the tape "Be beautiful and keep quiet." Ambassador of this, he appeared in several more films, which were very coolly received by the viewer.

Delon understood that without an acting education it would be difficult for him to achieve success in cinema. For this reason, he closely followed the performance of professional artists, and also worked on speech and facial expressions.

The guy had an athletic physique and attractive appearance, which is why he was constantly offered to portray frivolous handsome men. And although later Alena's facial features will be considered the standard of male beauty, at the beginning of his career, his appearance gave him great trouble.

The first fame came to the Frenchman in 1960, after filming the detective story "In the bright sun". Film critics appreciated the performance of Alain Delon, as a result of which proposals from European directors began to arrive. Soon he agreed to collaborate with the Italian master Luchino Visconti, who was going to shoot the drama "Rocco and His Brothers".

Later, Delon continued to work in Italy, appearing in the films Eclipse and Leopard. An interesting fact is that the last film was awarded the Palme d'Or (1963) and is considered one of the heights of world cinema.

The young self-taught actor managed to create the most complex images that later entered all the textbooks of cinematography. After that, Alain appeared in a comedic role, masterfully transforming himself into Christian-Jacques in Black Tulip. This picture was very popular, and the Frenchman's play was once again highly appreciated by critics and ordinary spectators.

In the mid-60s, Alain Delon went to Hollywood, where he participated in the filming of such films as "Born by a Thief", "The Lost Squad", "Is Paris Burning?" and Texas Beyond the River. However, all these works did not have much success with the public.

As a result, the man decided to return to his homeland, where he was soon offered a key role in the crime film "Samurai", which was included in the classics of French cinema. In 1968 he starred in the acclaimed film Pool, and the next year in the crime drama The Sicilian Clan.

In the 70s, Alain continued shooting in films, where the most notable works with his participation were "Two in the City", "Zorro" and "Police Story". In the next decade, the actor appeared in such famous films as Tehran-43 and Our History.

It is curious that in the last work he played the alcoholic Robert Avranches so brightly that he won the Cesar Prize for this role as the best actor of the year. By that time, the whole world already knew about him, and all publications wrote about his beauty.

In the 90s, Alain Delon was better remembered for such films as "New Wave", "Return of Casanova" and "One Chance for Two". In the new millennium, he played Julius Caesar in the comedy Asterix at the Olympic Games.

In 2012, Delon was seen in the Russian comedy film Happy New Year, Mothers! It is curious that this tape was the last in the artist's creative biography. In the spring of 2017, he announced his retirement from big cinema.

Music

Alain Delon is not only a talented actor, but also a singer. In 1967 he performed the song "Laetitia", which appeared in the film "Adventurers".

A few years later the man in a duet with Delilah covered the hit "Paroles ... Paroles ...". As a result, it was the new performance of the composition that gained worldwide popularity. In the 80s, Alain recorded the songs “Thought I’d ring you” with Shirley Bassey, “I Don’t Know” with Phyllis Nelson and “Comme au cinema”, which he performed himself.

Personal life

As a young man, Alain began courting the Austrian actress Romy Schneider. As a result, in 1959 the lovers decided to get engaged. And although the couple lived together for the next 6 years, the matter never came to a wedding.

After that, Delon had a short affair with the artist Christa Paffgen, who gave birth to his son Christian Aaron. However, he refused to acknowledge his paternity, despite the fact that the boy was raised by his mother and stepfather Alena, who gave their grandson their last name.

The first official wife of the actor was actress and director Natalie Barthelemy. In this union, the couple had a boy named Anthony, who in the future will follow in the footsteps of his parents. The couple lived together for about 4 years, after which they decided to leave.

In 1968, Alain Delon met the French actress Mireille Dark. They lived in a civil marriage for about 15 years and parted as friends. After that, the man began to cohabit with the fashion model Rosali van Bremen. The result of their relationship was the birth of the girl Anushka and the boy Alain-Fabien. After 14 years of marriage, the couple decided to leave.

Delon is the owner of the Delbeau Productions and Adel Productions film studios. In addition, he has his own brand "AD", which produces clothes, watches, glasses, and perfumes.

Alain Delon today

Now the artist, as promised, does not act in films. In 2019, at the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the Palme d'Or - for his contribution to the development of cinema.

In the summer of 2019, Alain suffered a stroke, as a result of which he was urgently hospitalized. In August of the same year, he was treated in a Swiss hospital. This information was confirmed by his son Anthony.