By French actor Alain Delon, the handsome star of films like Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Le Samourai” and “Le Cercle Rouge,” has died. He was 88.
In a statement released to the AFP by his family, it says he “passed away peacefully in his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and his family.”
Other major films for him include Rene Clement’s Tom Ripley adaptation “Purple Noon,” Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers” and masterpiece “The Leopard,” and Antonioni’s “L’Eclisse”.
Works also included “La Piscine,” “Red Sun,” “Scorpio,” “Mr. Klein,” “The Assassination of Trotsky” and “Un Fic”.
Delon also starred as the title character in the French TV crime drama “Frank Riva” and played Caesar in 2008’s ” Asterix at the Olympic Games.”
France’s president Emanuel Macron has been among those to offer tributes to Delon following his death, saying he “was more than a star: a French monument”.
Source: Variety
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