Alain Delon is dead to me!

Paroles, paroles, paroles...

The world is less pretty today

BBC obit is up

Who?

R4, he has some fans in North America because of 'Purple Noon' (1960), the original version of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'.

I thought he’d been dead for years.

His naked ass:

Now the battle over his estate is set to begin. I'm sure each of his adult children have their own lawyers at this very moment. The fighting will resemble a shark feeding frenzy.

Alain Delon, I've always known him more through his caricature on Les Guignols than his real personality (a generational thing, I suppose). But he truly starred in some great classics of French film noir. In addition to Le Cercle Rouge, there’s Melville’s Le Samourai and Verneuil’s Le Clan des Siciliens, both excellent crime films. During his Italian period, how could we not mention Visconti’s The Leopard. Not to mention he had the looks of a god.

Despite being handsome and a great actor, this man was also (I'm sure you guessed it) a huge piece of shit towards his own family.

He was a misogynist, assaulted a "Miss France" live on TV, a racist... and so on.

Wasn’t he homophobic?

Awful man.

According to IMDB, he made 107 movies in 70 years. One I remember fondly is "The Last Adventure" (1967), an implausible but fun romp in which he grows an alluring beard and takes off his shirt a lot.

It's very likely R12, although I don't remember if he ever said anything publicly about gays in general. He probably did not appreciate the fact that he had a large gay following when he was alive.

Keep the pictures coming, thank you.

As Tom Ripely in Purple Noon.

I thought he admitted to being bisexual somewhere over the years.

He certainly did R15:

“Known for often speaking publicly, Delon has claimed that gay couples shouldn't have the right to have or adopt children and that women should be dealt with in a "macho" attitude that includes "slapping them around". His son even accused him of domestic violence. Furthermore, he declared his sympathies towards the far-right movements in France and his interest in stopping immigration into his country.”

Awww boo. He was such a beauty.

Janbot

He was a legendary actor, but his private life and far-right views have severely tarnished his reputation. He and Brigitte Bardot never knew when to shut the fuck up.

In Visconti's "The Leopard" (1963).

Anyone for tennis?

When Delon received an honor at Cannes in 2019, RogerEbert.com wrote this as a counterpoint to the charge that he was always a homophobe:.

[quote] In 1969—when gay-bashing was considered a sport and homosexuals had no rights or protections to speak of—Delon reportedly stated that he had no inclination to sleep with another man, but if he did, it would be nobody's business but his own. That was a spectacularly brave pronouncement for an incandescent international star to make at the time.

Ari, his son with Nico, died last year. Alain denied that Ari was his kid but they looked incredibly alike and Alain's parents raised Ari for many years. Alain was pretty but he was a piece of shit for multiple reasons.

Delon & Bardot on a sailboat in 1968:

Naughty boy.

R31 Two gigantic assholes.

Huge figure for the boomers who saw foreign films in drives at the theatre in America, which was a thing through the 50's and 60's. The films could show sex and other less-than-wholesome themes as they weren't subject to the production code.

Droves*

He had a lithe build and a gorgeous face. He was fantastic on screen, young. Yeah as a man he was a prick.

He aged poorly and ended up with the face he deserved.

I’ve brought up my “encounter” with Mr. Delon here a few times over the years and so now would seem to be an appropriate time to bring it up.

In the summer of 2012 I I wandered into ia downstairs video booth of a shop called Exxpressions on West 53rd between Third and Second. It was early on a Sunday afternoon and nobody was there except for this one man. The door to his booth was open just a bit. His screen was playing a straight porno clip. I got a good look at the man and immediately recognized him as Delon. Shaggy white hair, stocky, exactly as he looked in French magazines I’d browse through at the Borders up on Park and 57th. He was wearing light blue pants and a white short sleeved shirt. His pants were only down just enough for his cock to be out. I went in there and sucked it for a bit and then finished him off with a handjob. As far as I recall he never looked down at me as I did my thing and never even made a sound when he came. We never exchanged a word. As far as he was concerned I was only there to serve a function. Fine with me. He wasn’t in the best of shape and his cock was nothing to write home about but did I care? Fuck no, it was Alain Delon. It was an experience. And that was that.

"The most beautiful man in the movies"?! In the WORLD, BABY!

Admit it; you got to r3 and gasped!

Yes, he eventually got all old and wrinkly, but who and what does not, except for Dorian Gray?

I know he left her, but whatever did Alain see in Romy in the first place? Luckiest mademoiselle at the time!

What does everyone think of his lips and teeth?

I think when he was young and before Zac Efron got work done, they looked very similar.

Yesterday I watched a couple French films but none with him in them, but Bardot was. I decided to look him up online for some reason. I then thought that Bardot was going to die soon not Delon.

Bardot or LouLou will be next.

He never really did it for me, but I understand why others were into him. I'm more of a Belmondo and young Yves Montand kind of guy.

As a Frenchman, I’ve hated that man all my life. My mom hated him and I got that from her I guess. He was absolutely gorgeous but there’s not a single thing to like about his personality.

RIP Ari Boulogne, the son he never acknowledged.

^

Now Yves Montana was a sexy man.

Delon was too scrawny to appeal to me. And the more I learned about his personality and beliefs, the less attractive he became.

Anyone notice the common theme among the faces of the women he was with?

This is not a photo of his actual face towards the end of his life: Alain Delon looked 25 till the very very bitter end. It was a scary decrepit version of his face on a portrait he was allegedly keeping in a locked room in the attic. I only understood this upon dying as he never let me step into this room ever.

A poignant chapter in this sorrowful familial saga was aired on Thierry Ardisson’s television program, “Tout le monde en parle,” in April 2001. Invited to the show, Ari Boulogne recounted what Alain Delon had said to him at the end of their inaugural meeting. He had conveyed words of an unsettling harshness: “You’re my buddy, you, you’re my buddy. But I’m going to tell you something, you don’t have my eyes, you don’t have my hair,” he had stated, before adding: “You are not my son, you will never be my son. I slept with your mother only once and that’s all.”

I’m not seeing the hotness. Just like Robert Redford to me. And Delon’s politics and bigotry are definitely dealbreakers to me.

I forgot how much Datalounge loves to worship plain, heterosexual white men who hate the gays and people of color.

He had a beautiful face but he couldn’t live forever.

He was stunning.

Susan Dey was just told. We believe that she will be issuing a statement shortly.

Gorgeous

He was very handsome and a reasonably good actor, but he was also a despicable human being who was closely associated to the Marseillaise mafia (many career criminals were his lifelong friends) and, in spite of his VERY trashy origins, was a rabid right winger, racist, homophobe and misogynist. He looked great on camera, but neither the arts nor the wider world have lost much of value.

"in spite of his VERY trashy origins, was a rabid right winger, racist, homophobe and misogynist"

Not sure I understand the contrast you constructed. In spite of?

R57, I mean that he came from the very bottom of society (his family had been very poor) and yet, he favoured the very policies implemented by the elites to create inequality, poverty and injustice. Also, he supported the most extreme branches of the Front National, which is supposedly very tough on crime, and many of his closest friends were career criminals. Isn't that an utter and complete incongruence?

The last of the beautiful male movie stars from the 50’s and 60’s. His beauty was unforgettable.

I guess bits of it. Generally however, extremely trashy people are also often racists homophobes misogynists and right wingers.

He was the first big star to openly defend homosexuality when absolutely no one in the world did. Yes really. Said something like who does it matter who you love? It is on video when he was young and gorgeous. One of his best friends was a handsome gay French movie star. I forget his name but died fairly young. Everyone knew but the public. Would not be surprised if he slept with him. I guess he changed and became super conservative. Probably slept with people like Visconti to get his career into high gear.

Most handsome move star who was also a great actor. Yes he's great in Purple Noon, Rocco and Le Samurai.

It was a beautiful eulogy, R40.

I remember reading an interview many years ago with Claudia Cardinale where she detested him. Then years after this there was a picture of them holding each other closely and smiling for the camera. I guess they had a reconciliation.

In the end he only talked to his dogs.

Nasty, stupid man with the face of an angel.

[quote] The last of the beautiful male movie stars from the 50’s and 60’s.

Really, R59?

Didn't he molest underage girls?

Why is Bardot's belly so wrinkled looking in R32's picture? That's weird for someone that young unless she'd recently given birth.

One of the most beautiful men that ever lived.

But also not exactly one of its finest human beings, if his family's opinions and his support for Marine Le Pen are indicators.

"Didn't he molest underage girls?"

I like blue.

r40 well, I guess the saving grace is that you didn't blow the hideous whale that Depardieu has become.

If you had to blow an old famous frog, let it be Delon.

Holy shit at R25.

AD was always a bit too pretty boy-ish for me but that pic is...something else

R4, you’re really revealing your ignorance. He has been a DL icon for years and years.

Quelllllllllllllle tragique!

….et Datalounge a pleuré

One of the hottest men to ever live, and in true French form, a total POS.

another pic

The young Charlie Sheen looked like him.

[QUOTE] He aged poorly and ended up with the face he deserved.

Someone got fed up and stabbed his portrait in the attic.

Did he date Catherine Deneuve?

R76, yeah. You’re right. I see the resemblance.

Charlie was very handsome. He was talented, too. Imagine had he not fallen into addiction or had been able to just dabble here & there?

He started to lose his looks very early. By 25 he looked ten years older.

R30 Nico knew she was going to be a shit mother and knocked on Alain’s mother’s door and his mother saw that baby and instantly knew it was her son’s child. She knew immediately.

She raised Ari without any doubt. Alain never acknowledged him despite Alain looking more like him than the kids he claimed.

Ari ended up reuniting with Nico when he was a teenager. They bonded over drugs but she ended up kicking the habit and they lived together until she died.

Despite his parents both being bad parents he loved his mother.

That’s all I know of Alain. And that Marianne Faithful called him a cunt.

He was gorgeous, in terms of actors i think only Paul Newman and Marlon Brandon were more beautiful than him, but certainly never as cool as he was in his prime. Pity that, always a shady character, he became even more of an asshole as he got older.

[quote] and, in spite of his VERY trashy origins, was a rabid right winger, racist, homophobe and misogynist.

Why “in spite of”? Lots of fascists have trashy origins.

R80, Who?

Caramel, bonbons, et chocolat…

R.I.P. legend

^That lady looks like a man

[Quote]I forgot how much Datalounge loves to worship plain, heterosexual white men who hate the gays and people of color.

Normally, I would agree with your assessment of DL, but... come on, now... this is Alain Delon we're talking about. You can't compare him to the others when we've all got working eyes.

Beautiful man in his prime.

As he aged, his outside began more and more to reflect his unattractive inside.

He's no Anthony Ammirati......

Alain replaced the aging Louis Jourdan. Louis was a fantastic looking twink but as his manly face developed it wasn't quite as perfectly masculine-pretty as Delon's was. And Delon kept that mix of pretty and handsome for 20 years. So did Brad Pitt, and Rob Lowe. Tyrone Power had it, but he ruined it quickly with hard living.

Zut alors ! Forget AD, who is piloting that boat at r31??

Other great pretty boy faces that held on into manhood: Matt Dillon, Keanu Reeves, Troy Donahue, Raphaël Personnaz. Paul Rudd has held onto Cute Boy face until, well, now.

R12- Yo got that wrong 😑

he was a HOMO

JFC can the picture posting troll take a fucking break? We can all use Google Images if we want to see pictures.

"...if eyes were made for seeing,

Then beauty is its own excuse for being."

R95, Do you post this in every thread with pictures?

Sure, Jan r94.

R8- I just looked it up his net worth was estimated to be $200 million. So he was really rich.

r97 the non-Aspies among DL don't need one fucking picture after another taking up half the thread. We all know how to use Google.

R91, Tyrone Power "ruined it quickly" by dying at age 44. 😥

R100, I appreciate your eminently logical point. But it's Alain Delon! 😍

R30, it's probably a good thing that Alain Delon never took Ari under his wing. Delon's "legit" sons Anthony and Alain-Fabien both claimed that their father had a violent temper and would beat them for the slightest infractions. Alain-Fabien even claimed Papa Delon broke his mother's nose twice and eight of her ribs.

When did Alain Delon become a homophobe?

It is very interesting that Delon's mother knew instantly and instinctively the boy was her grandson and took him in to raise him. And yet Delon says he was nothing like him and always denied his paternity.

A little full frontal.

I've already said it around here, and I'm going to say it once again: my cousin, a veterinarian, was "his" veterinarian and throughout the years I have begged him to spill at least some indiscretions about him and the only thing my cousin ever said about him was that Alain Delon loved, LOVED, his dogs and was inconsolable when any one of them would die. That's all I got in twenty years: "inconsolable". Thank you Benoit!

Ancient nasty self loathing homophobic bisexual hustler. He got the face he deserved. Bon débarras.

Alors! She sucked my cock too.

Romy was beautiful and had enormous charisma. One of the great German/French beauties. How could you think otherwise? I guess she wasn't French but I sometimes think of her as a French actress. I wonder how much her son's horrible freak death had to do with her fatal heart attack a year later.

R107, I read that Delon wished to buried by the chapel in Doucy, in the cemetery he created for his 30 dogs. Like Bardot, he seemed to prefer the companionship of his beloved pets over people.

When I was in college I had drinks with Alain Delon, Pierre Cardin and the locally famous proprietor of a infamous hotel in Genève. The propriétaire was trying to convince me join his little harem which included another young man at the table, a ravishing Portuguese tennis hopeful. This topic wasn't discussed at drinks yet I wondered why Delon and Cardin were present. To pass judgment on me? Anyhow, I declined the offer but he was very kind and let me use the hotel's spa and sports facilities for free for several years, and he sometimes fed me. This was the early 80s. Delon wasn't decrepit. I finally did blow the propriétaire one day in the sauna, because he was a very charming old coot and he had an enormous hot cock and giant balls.

Bon n'es qu'une merde.

R92 I agree, that man is beautiful!

Homme blanc moyen

Delon on the Dick Cavett Show. The other guest is Elsa Lanchester. Delon was around 35 years old here.

R115 Un vrai con.

He was a right wing nasty closet case who treated the human beings in his life: wives,girlfriends, boyfriends,children like merde. No one who knew le salaud had a good word to say about. Oh but he "loved" his petit chien.😂

Like Bardot he was a pute who became an animal fetishist when his family wouldn't have anything to do with him.

Whatever you say, r110.

Jesus, R30. I had no idea he had father a son with Nico.

The son physically favored his father STRONGLY.

Surely Alain’s parents took one look at the boy & immediately claimed him.

Beautiful ugly man.

From r90

[quote] If we watch him greedily, asking for more, it is for a reason so obvious, and so elemental, that stating it plainly seems almost indecent, but here goes. Alain Delon, in his prime, was the most beautiful man in the history of the movies.

He had Spectrum eyes. Would explain a lot.

Delon was like a model who acts. Real film stars have very distinctive features that set them apart from everybody. Delon was very beautiful but his face emphasized generic beauty. Like it was generated in AI.

" I saw in the Times yesterday this interview with this little French actor Alain Delon.All he wanted to do was talk about Jack."

His butt was flat as a crepe.

R124 Voila ! Le Autism Troll

R40, good for you!

It’s unbelievable that any part of NYC still has the old school booths. The owner deserves an award for keeping it open.

Like a lot of aged trashy former boy toys who sold their holes for fame, Delon overcompensated. Think Mark Wahlberg. Props to Neuman and Pitt for not going that route. Wonder what Dean would have done had he made old age?

R97 .. R95/R100/R124 is the Autism Troll just block the freak. We have.

R86, you are tedious AF.

I cannot imagine going through life wondering who has testes or who has ovaries.

Streisand was always known to adore food. I think she said once something like I can't wait for this tour to end so I can eat lemon meringue pie. I remember this because it's a favorite of mine.

That made me roar, 109.

I needed that laugh.

Oops! R109.

I saw an extensive interview done a few years ago. He does want to be buried in his dog cemetery.

When I was a wee gayling, I used to go to the library looking at old periodicals for pictures of Alain Delon who by then was past his prime. Then I would browse London bookshops for old film magazines. The internet has been a godsend. You can never have too many pictures of Alain Delon. Keep them coming!

Does anyone think that his lips were too thin?

How did he remain so thin and good looking after decades of heavy smoking and drinking?

Genes. He didn't look fresh. He was already beat up on that Cavett clip above at r116.

Alain Delon and Celine Dion duet:

His lips were not too thin. Particularly young. His lips were fuller than the THIN lips of the generation before him.

Another picture of Alain and Celine

[quote] JFC can the picture posting troll take a fucking break? We can all use Google Images if we want to see pictures.

R95 Survey says:NO! You have no control over anyone but yourself. Yes, we all should have google images and we all also have the ability to right-click on something else(hint, hint)

[quote] the non-Aspies among DL don't need one fucking picture after another taking up half the thread.

R100 "Non-aspie?" You're more like a non-factor. More nonsensical. It's amazing to me how one person thinks they can arbitrarily control the keyboards of hundreds of other datalounge members. Why don't you go start a blog and complain over there or go outside and yell at the clouds. In other words, find something to do that you have control of. Even the OP can't dictate what we post. And FYI, "non-aspies" can enjoy looking at pictures as well. Stop being an ignorant cunt.

Alain and Dalida > Alain and Celine

I don't think his ass was totally flat. In fact, I would give it an 8 for form and perkiness. Judge for yourself.

With Viscontoi.

Patrick Bateman vibes @ R140.

A somber Alain at Dalida’s funeral

I remember when that trashy Princess de Monaco, Stéphanie, was heavily involved with Anthony Delon, son of Alain. She had previously dated Paul Belmondo, son of Jean-Paul. She seemed to be making the rounds with every male offspring of French cinema gods.

Did Alain and Dalida date or were they just friends?

Or both?

R151 They were neighbors in Paris in the 50’s and they had a brief fling but they were mostly friends throughout her life

They should have got married and had kids.

I’d never heard of Dalida, but after reading about her on Wikipedia, I can understand why she committed suicide.

When did Alain's looks first start to go downhill?

Love love love me some Dalida. She had a long, lustrous career in France/Europe and the Middle East, but yes what a tragic life. I’ve visited her grave and her former home in Montmartre

R118/R119 not true that he was only close with his dogs. He adored his daughter too, his favorite child, who was always around him. His sons were bitter because he gave her the control of his company and allegedly left her 50% of his wealth, while two sons would get 25% each.

So how many children did he REALLY have?

He had 4, though he denied the paternity of Nico's son, so officially 3. Anthony, from first marriage is 60, and Anouchka and Fabien are in their 30s.

The daughter accompanied him in Cannes when he recieved honorary Palme d' or few years ago.

He looked remarkably good until about age 60., which is unusual for a chain smoker.

r145 get some fucking help you tedious loon.

Le who?

[quote] get some fucking help you tedious loon.

R162 What projection from the ignorant, uncultured "aspie" troll who becomes hysterical and unhinged over pictures in a thread not about her. Take your own advise Mary. You still have no control over anyone.

Get help r164

R165 A little warning I'm about to post yet another picture of Alain Delon. Try not to get triggered, Mary.

r166 you're taking this very personally. But go ahead and post pic after pic that we can all Google.

R40. That was the most touching story of a chance encounter between strangers each looking for that elusive human connection.

r40 Alain Delon was 68 years old in 2012. Ugh. That is nasty.

[quote] you're taking this very personally.

R167 Says the troll who had a meldown in this thread over pictures and compared the people posting pictures to people with Asburger syndrome. You're the biggest idiot on Datalounge and that's really saying something. Maybe you're a troll from Russia because anyone else with an ounce of self awareness can't be as stupid as you are.

JFC r170! A nerve has obviously been hit. Go take some Ketamine and get in your hot tub. Do us all a favor.

R171 'Us' a favor or you since you're the one hysterical over pictures.

R169 Actually if that was 12 years ago, he would have been age 76.

I bet he smelled like cigarettes and ass funk. His jeans always looked like they could stand by themselves.

His lookalike? :

Yep.

No R175. Although Charlie was a very handsome and brooding young man, Alain Delon was more classic Hollywood beauty in terms of esthetic. His big bright smile, wide eyes, and his angular features , Like he was chiseled in stone. He was simply in his own category like no other.

I always thought he favored Rob Lowe a bit, in terms of looks and attitude (early/young Lowe, in any case).

Friend of the Le Pens, breaker of Romy Schneider, crap father. Bardot still stands, from that era. This has been a couple of years of loss for French culture, with Delon, Anouk Aimee recently and Jane Birkin last summer. There was another French actor or cinema icon who passed this past year but I can't recall. When did Jean-Paul Belmondo pass?

R178, Belmondo died in 2021. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Michel Bouquet died in 2022.

No matter how shitty they may have been as human beings and mix being French with movie star arrogance and that is very shitty indeed they were part of a cultural high point of the 20th Century that in retrospect seems glorious.

[quote] mix being French with movie star arrogance and that is very shitty

You said a mouthful R180!

[quote] Anyhow, I declined the offer but he was very kind and let me use the hotel's spa and sports facilities for free for several years, and he sometimes fed me. This was the early 80s. Delon wasn't decrepit. I finally did blow the propriétaire one day in the sauna, because he was a very charming old coot and he had an enormous hot cock and giant balls.

You gave just the one blowjob after he gave you years or using the spa and sports facilities for free? That seems like quite a cheap price to have paid given how much you got in return.

[quote] I finally did blow the propriétaire one day in the sauna, because he was a very charming old coot and he had an enormous hot cock and giant balls.

Sir, this is a Wendy's...

Alain Deadlon

r178, Jane Birkin in 2023

Not so much a French cinema icon, but a French pop music icon-- Françoise Hardy, died last June.

Belmondo died in 2021, also 88 like Alain. Ah, that French paradox.

Belmondo was beautiful the way a woman is beautiful. Big eyes relative to his face size, lush lips, pretty skin (most of the time), kind of smallish features other than his eyes.

OOps - I meant Alain Delon, not Belmondo

Patrick Deware (1947 - 1982), considered one of the best of a new generation of French actors . Age 35, wife and child on vacation , shoot’s himself with a rifle at home. Elders may remember a film “ Going Places.,” among many.

Extremely attractive. Everyone was shocked. And all the people said what a shame that he’s dead, and we thought he was a most normal man

Sorry to ramble on, but these stories of suicide due to untreated mental illness just hit me.

NYTimes link is paywalled. Sorry , just Google .

R178, maybe you were thinking of Philippe Leroy? Not as famous as Delon, but with an equally impressive body of work.

His foreskin tasted like fine Camembert.

for R171 et al

Susan Dey is in a dilemma about issuing a statement of condolence.

I never liked his acting.

He and Fonda co-starred in René Clément's "Joy House" (1964). Great looking movie - the cinematography and the stars. Fonda is excellent, but later said the director sexually harassed her throughout the shoot.

Some sordid tea…

Once A Thief was not a bad movie, if you could accept that Alain Delon and Jack Palance were supposed to be brothers.

Alain Delon: President Macron leads tributes to ‘French monument’ who has died aged 88

Faggots

The more I read about him over time, the more dead he became to me.

Fin.

I love how this thread got progressively drunker as the night went on in the US last night. Well done, ladies....or Bien Fait, as the French say.

Jared Leto at the same age was a carbon copy. He seems to be just about as misogynistic and much better hung. Aging better, too.

R92 & R114, the man piloting the boat at R31 was Éric Tabarly, a famous French yachtsman:

I am always surprised at just how brainwashed with corporate identity politics you Americans are.

It is Alain Delon for Christ sake, relax, stop virtue signaling and checking out if he was on the line re mass immigration, open borders, trans women of color etc

He was probably an asshole like most of big celebrities and great artists are. Look at Hollywood, all the pedophiles and rapist, who are big Dem supporters. You could stop listening to rock music, because all these rockers slept with underage groupies.

At least we have never heard that Delon was abusing kids or raping women.

He was conservative, bad father, except allegedly to the daughter. He was close to gangsters when young. But, so what, do you check any actor, musician, writer' s personal file, before enjoying his art?

It's a delicate balance, but personal background is required for full appreciation of someone's art. We all have to make our own personal decisions about lines of repugnance being crossed.

Here's looking at you, Monsieur Delon...

Au revoir.

RIP

Romy was Austrian R110.

Sure R205, you are the only one to decide it. But I have the impression that most of you are not guided by your genuine feeling of repugnance towards someone's deeds. I understand that someone is disgusted by MJ and the story of continuous sexual abuse of little children. Or Alice Munro, taking the side of her husband who was abusing her pre teen daughter.

In this case, I think it is due to ideological brainwash and polarization in US. I think that most DLers would not be appalled by worse things than the fact he did not acknowledge the child he had with Nico (it is horrible, I agree).

But the problem here is that he was from different political spectrum. Him being conservative is probably worse to you than all of Weinstein's rape. Thinking about it is bizarre. Part of corporate world is liberal the other is conservative and they are using you as their pawns. People are losing their critical skills.

Two stories about Alain that I remember:

One of his wives (Nathalie?) cheated on him with Eddie Fisher. (According to the autobiography of producer Robert Evans.)

Allegedly, Rock Hudson went to France to track Alain down and add him to the list of his conquests. Returned to America disappointed because :"He has a small dick ."

That's all I got. I never saw the fuss as he is like Redford to me, with a very asexual vibe.

His top lip was paper thin... almost non-existent...

He totally had that small dick look.

He was crazy to say to the guy: "You don't have my eyes, you don't have my hair."

He even had his facial expression.

Of course that Delon's mother had no doubt it was her grandson.

[quote] At least we have never heard that Delon was abusing kids or raping women.

Oh yeah? What about murder? Here's an article excerpt:

"In 1968, Alain Delon was investigated for the murder of his bodyguard, Stevan Marković. According to reports, following the violent death of Alain's bodyguard Stevan Marković, the actor and French gangster François Marcantoni were investigated.

At the time, Marković had allegedly written a letter to his brother, which stated, "If I get killed, it's 100% the fault of Alain Delon and his godfather Francois Marcantoni"

[quote] He was close to gangsters when young. But, so what,

He was more than just 'close' to them. R204 two of his bodyguards died under mysterious circumstances in a two year period. Delon was at the scene both times, but the crimes went unsloved. When staff start dropping like flies in a really short time period, it's enough to make you scrach your head, no? The full article is linked below.

Rock was a ridiculous size queen. And anyone could have told Rock in advance that Alain wasn't hung.

I loved him in Airport 79: The Concorde!

I'm not pleading with St. Peter for Delon's seat in heaven. He was a beautiful young man and I liked his movies. Feel free to unclench.

R216 YES. He was stunning in that movie, working the controls with his steely blue gaze.

You can read in all comment sections on various sites that he was considered to be the most handsome man of all the times. Except for DL queens, who had better.

EEK no! Tiny uncut dick and didn't wash. SMOKED! Shady associates and a bastard. I would never!

R208 you are so right. The funny thing is those on the left think the right is completely brainwashed and lacking all critical thinking. But they can’t see that they themselves are in the grip of a hive mind that makes critical thinking impossible.

R208, I have read more positive posthumous thoughts regarding Delon on this thread than not.

Most of us can manage disliking his asshole-ness while wholeheartedly appreciating his work, & not just his striking looks when younger.

Éric Tabarly, yachtsman.

[quote] I am always surprised at just how brainwashed with corporate identity politics you Americans are.

What the hell are you going on about, bub? Americans invented shock culture and trashy reality TV. If anything, we're more likely to identify with the gangster than with anything corporate. R204 I suggest you only speak on wherever it is you're from because you have nothing on other cultures but assumptions.

I remember when I first saw him when I was 13-14 years old kid. It was in some old movie, when he was young, he was playing some musketeer or Zorro or something. I still remember how stunned I was by his beauty. Never seen something like that before.

He had beautiful face, but he was masculine and had that allure of bad guy, of danger. that made it more attractive.

I mean: made him*

[quote] At least we have never heard that Delon was abusing kids or raping women.

Nope. Just abusing women and disowning kids.

Ok R226, the way he treated the kid was cruel.

I don't care that he was not a virtue signaller supporting uncontrolled mass immigration of young men from often radicalized societies with different values, at the expense of working class people, all the while staying protected in his castle. Kudos for that.

But the fact that he renounced his own flesh and blood, an orphan that btw. looked just like him is twisted.

Christian Aaron Boulogne was recognised by his paternal grandparents and he was not an orphan. Nico died well into his adulthood and Alain was still alive.

With Marianne and Mick

His final partner was a Japanese woman, so according to DL, you know what that means.

And abusing women, r227? Not even worthy of a mention? Just human nature?

R230 I knew it!

Madonna's tribute song to him.:

R230, whom his children kicked out of his estate. Poor Hiromi.

Children said that she had abused the dog.

When did he look his absolute best?

[quote] When did he look his absolute best?

Whenever he bent over to present hole.

I don't believe that he even needed to present hole to Luchino.

He already had his outbreak in France and I think that Visconti was more than happy to work with such an extraordinary handsome actor.

I believe that generic good looking people are more destined to use casting couch, because there are so many of them, hungry to suceed. Someone as striking as Delon was big catch for filmmakers, without having to put out.

[quote]President Macron leads tributes to ‘French monument’ who has died aged 88

[quote]Faggots (Matt)

Hey Matt, This is President Donald Trump. Have I told you I have a document about President Macron that you would love to see. I can hand you a copy of that document for a hundred thousand bucks. And there are a lot of other documents I'm sure you or your friend Ben will be interested to know about. Call me on my burner phone at 555=4547-666

Thanks r191, I knew there was someone else recently who had passed. Thanks also to r186, I'd forgotten about Francoise Hardy, also a major French icon.

But the problem here is that he was from different political spectrum. Him being conservative is probably worse to you than all of Weinstein's rape. Thinking about it is bizarre. Part of corporate world is liberal the other is conservative and they are using you as their pawns. People are losing their critical skills.

No we pretty much agree Weinstein was a vile pig. And there was a lot of controversy here in the states about Sinatra's connections to the mob and his rotten behavior in general. It did help him that he was one of the greatest talents the US produced in the 20th Century.

And unlike in France Islam has not spread in the US to the point where police fear to go into their enclaves. I hope it continues and people are not sucked into the fear of being falsely called racists.

Here in the US we don't really have Muslim "enclaves", or areas where large numbers of Muslims congregate to live (with the exception of Dearborn and other spots in Michigan). Most Muslims live spread out throughout the country, living alongside non-Muslims, which contributes to their assimilation.

R233 that video is excellent and mesmerising.

An Academy Award presenter in 1965.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Scene from Purple Noon (The Talented Mr. Ripley) with Delon as Ripley.

Jean Sorel

Is there any real prove that he was racist, misogynist and homophobic.

Or is it just because he was conservative and against uncontrolled migration (btw. some scientist think that if the immigration continues in these numbers, since Muslim immigrants have more children, that Islam will prevail in Europe by 2050th or even sooner).

The elites are very sensitive on the matter of immigration (of course, they are always hungry for cheap work force) and if anyone has any doubts on the matter he is soon proclaimed to be worse than Hitler.

Today the word racist has become the most prostituted word and is used for anyone who distances from the mainstream politics. Truckers that protested against Covid measures in Canada were called racist and white supremacist, even though their protest had nothing to do with race, perhaps some truckers were not even white. Most people who are called racist today are not really KKK tier.

Btw. I have noticed that many people from North African countries expressed their admiration for Delon on Twitter,

His son Anthony looked a lot like him too, but swarthy. Does his mother Nathalie have the Mediterranean blood?

Middle aged Anthony.

Anthony, in youth, had big doe eyes and bushy unibrow. As he matured, he resembled more and more his father. His mother Nathalie, descended from pied-noirs, her father being a Spanish-Italian from Algeria, her mother from Melilla, the Spanish city bordering Morocco.

[quote] Today, the word racist has become the most prostituted word and is used for anyone who distances from the mainstream politics.

It's not just the word "racist" that has been prostituted. You can also include "misogynist" and "transphobe" as well. As we've seen in this thread even a deadman isn't allowed to rest without his past statements and beliefs being dug up but the man is no longer here to defend himself. I completely 100% agree with you R249 about being labeled for stepping away from the mainstream. And you're not just labeled and ostracized. You're also viciously attacked and dragged through the mud first. They're not just satisfied with casting you out. You have to be humiliated and have your reputation ruined as well. I've realized SJW don't want equal treatment, which means no one is treated better than anyone else, but that they want special treatment and exceptions made because they do feel better than everybody else. I remember the radical 60s and 70s, but today's social "movements" are more lazy and self-serving than trying to inspire any real change in society.

His younger son is a gorgeous twink.

Probably an asshole too.

One can only admire his strongly anti Islam stance. They are homophobic misogynist garbage. And they are breeding like bacteria. Don't let the nice individual ones fool you. Collectively they are feral.

R214 Since his bodyguard who was found dead in the dump was Yugoslav thug, the Serbian press was writing about it a lot these days. A journalist from Belgrade investigated this story at the time, he spoke to other Serbian criminals connected with the deceased and had even met the guy before.

Seems like Marković was organizing orgies for French high society, filmed them and later blackmailed the participants. Allegedly, he had filmed the wife of the prime minister (later president) in some compromising entourage. There are allegations that he had blackmailed his employer Delon too, when Delon wanted to get rid of him. There is this anecdote in Serbia which states that Delon had said: when god bites the master, you shoot the dog. It looks like Marković lacked self awareness when he thought that he could intimidate the French elite without being punished. As one lucid Serbian journalist stated it is typical Serbian trait, they have this delusion of grandeur which is not founded in their reality.

I meant: when dog bites the master *

Here is Markovic's pic.

Has Momma commented?

Funny fact about Yugoslav thugs, petty criminals and gigolos is the fact that they were the original "refugees" like illegal immigrants from Middle east and Africa are today.

When they came to Paris they applied for the asylum, on the grounds that they were politically persecuted in Tito's Yugoslavia. Of course they were not, they were just dreaming of easy life in the city of light (some of them fled back to their home country in which they were "persecuted" after they had troubles with Corse mafia). There was an older lawyer of Serbian origins that helped them in the legal process and the bribe was involved frequently, because French officials were not that stupid to believe their sad stories. They were involved in petty crime, drugs, thieving, gambling, many of them were gigolos for elder ladies (and I believe more frequently, but unofficially for men).

summer of my serbian thug gigolo

for decades there eas a small dance hall in geneva for mature ladies to dance with balkans and turks. there was one in laiusanne in hotel chateau d’ouchy as well but I heard it was more Portuguese and Italian gigolo dancers as the vaudois are more provincial and felt more comfortable with known europeans

i wonder if alain used escorts in geneva. its a cosmopolitan and sleazy town

Isn't it true that Alain was a prostitute before he became an actor?

Haven't heard it but wouldn't be surprised. Depardieu admitted to it and said after he got his money he would beat up those creepy old men. Very French.

[quote]How dare you? You don't have my hair, you don't have my eyes, you don't have my face.

Dad, I easily could: they're all sold as parts in catalogues for plastic surgeons who likes to make cat ladies, or as props in joke shops.

Loubo lives!

I hope that's just a rumor that Alain wanted that to happen to his dog.

If it's true, then he was truly evil!

I am not sure if this is true. Though Alain was a bit of a shady guy, but media likes to vilify him because he was nationalist.

Dick Cavett interview (part 1). Love when Elsa Lanchester says, "Take anything off."

Fun Fact: Alain Delon was the cover boy of the best album of the 1980s, The Smiths ' The Queen Is Dead. The cover is a snapshot of Alain from a scene of the 1965 film, "L'Insoumis" (The Unvanquished).

R272, the best songs on the album?

I love his movies and his acting, he was intense and magnetic onscreen but I'm not going to overlook the fact that he was a huge jerk.

Incredible that he was a huge star in France and internationally, yet, was unrecognizable to American audiences.

Delon starred in a few English language films-- The Yellow Rolls Royce, Once a Thief, Girl on a Motorcycle, Concorde: Airport '79-- but didn't really do well in those markets. He was huge in European cinema, and many of those European films became very popular among the artsy-fartsy American cinéastes and influenced future filmmakers.

He did at least one American film, a neo-noir called Once a Thief (1965). It co-stars a young Ann-Margret and they make the most impossibly gorgeous couple. I'm not going to claim it's a classic but I'm quite fond of it.

And he's very good in it but he never became a big crossover star here. I think he just wasn't interested in that and preferred to make films in Europe.

Here's a free version of Once a Thief for anyone interested in watching.

So he was femininely handsome? And French so that was sexy? And he had a career in movies as the femininely handsome French guy.And now he’s dead.

He wasn't femininely handsome. But he was a beautiful handsome male. I see where you're coming from though. He had an almost androgynous appeal. Maybe he was too good looking for American audiences. Handsome American movie stars look like mutts next to him.

What makes him androgynous? Just wondering

Nothing feminine about him. Even as a young maan in Rocco and his brothers he was masculine. He had beautiful features, but that doesn't mean you're feminine.

"Alain Delon Had a Beauty You Could Hardly Bear"

"Forgive me if I talk about Alain Delon’s face for a minute. In truth, it’s hard not to. Certainly, in the early years of his career, that visage was more than a face; it was an existential fact. The feline eyes, the elegant cheekbones, the mouth both delicate and full — Delon was often even prettier than his female co-stars, who themselves weren’t exactly chopped liver.

"Filmmakers and audiences seemed to understand this, and that disruption — the transfer of onscreen physical beauty, and even vulnerability, to the male — created an exciting slipstream of ambiguity...

"..Perhaps Delon welcomed the fact that all his tough-guy posturing tempered the almost-feminine quality of his image. Maybe that’s why he wasn’t particularly interested in hanging on to that image as he grew older, allowing instead the jowls and the wrinkles to settle in naturally and gracefully in later years...."

“...In José Giovanni’s Two Men in Town (1973), he plays an ex-con who is rehabilitated and mentored by a prison counselor played by Jean Gabin as he enters the real world and tries to make an honest living. Have you seen his eyes?” a prison official asks Gabin early in the film, noting that all he sees in the Delon character’s face is “hatred and contempt.” “Yes, but there’s tenderness there as well,” Gabin responds. It’s hard not to feel as though the whole exchange symbolizes the effect of Delon’s presence, the sense that, in it, you can simultaneously read both cruelty and vulnerability — and the further sense that if both of these forces can exist in the same face, then maybe they’re not so different after all."

Ok,ok back to you tube…

When my partner and I first met, he had a large print of this odious man in his apartment. When we decided to move in together, I insisted he get rid of it. Delon was such a prick.

I know Delon was really a jerk the way he treated people but he was a genuinely wonderful actor. I can even forgive Sinatra. But as much as I've loved his performances in movies from when I was a boy in Disney films and then seeing as an adult his great performance in The Westerner Walter Brennan's behavior is hard to get beyond. Much like I believe it was Eugene Palette who was marvelous in comedies. It's hard to look at him in the same way despite his wonderful playing with Stanwyck in The Lady Eve.

I hope that you got rid of something that your partner objected to as well, R285.

R285 has stated her boundaries.

Jean Claude Brialy was the homosexual actor. A big star in French cinema at the end of the 50s through the 60s. He and Delon were very good friends. Handsome and liked by everyone he worked with.

I’d take Brialy over Delon. Brialy was almost like the Roddy McDowell of French cinema. Like r289 said, he was gay, handsome and friends with and liked by nearly every major French celebrity in film and music.

I always preferred Belmondo looks-wise, but AD's death prompted me to starting watching all his early films, and now I get it. It's that beautiful face combined with his masculine, slightly asshole, vibe. The director of "Mélodie en sous-sol" films him from all possible angles and in all kinds of outfits--he's always gorgeous.

His backstory adds to the charisma--fobbed off by his parents, doing military service in a combat zone, hanging around the seedy parts of Paris getting by on his looks and then being put in films.

As for the unacknowledged son--he actually looked just like Nico. And what a weird twist that AD's mom raised that kid when she didn't raise her own son.