Alain Delon is a French actor, who portrayed the role of a bad guy and policeman on screen, died at the age of 88 on 18th August. The late actor was suffering from poor health conditions after surviving a stroke in 2019. As per reports, earlier this year his son Anthony shared that his father was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer. Delon was often referred to as French Frank Sinatra for his handsome look. French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the actor and called him ‘French monument’. He further said that Delon with legendary roles made the world dream. 

French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the later actor on X and wrote, “Mr. Klein or Rocco, the Leopard or the Samurai, Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream. Lending his unforgettable face to shake up our lives. Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.” 

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In a 2003 edition of the newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Delon wrote, “Money, commerce, and television have wrecked the dream machine. My cinema is dead. And me, too.” 

In a 1970 interview with the New York Times, Delon was asked about such acquaintances, one of whom was among the last "Godfathers" of the underworld in the Mediterranean port of Marseille.  Alain Delon replied, “Most of them the gangsters I know ... were my friends before I became an actor. I don't worry about what a friend does. Each is responsible for his own act. It doesn't matter what he does.”

Alain Delon is known for his work in Purple Noon, Le Samouraï, The Swimming Pool, The Leopard, Zorro, Rocco and His Brothers, Borsalino, Asterix at the Olympic Games, The Red Circle, The Widow Couderc, Red Sun, India Summer, The Black Tulip, The Sicilian Clan and The Last Adventure to name a few.