Alain DelonAlain DelonAlain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Delon was born in Sceaux, France. His breakthrough as a film star came with Plein Soleil, a 1962 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr Ripley. He also gave tremendous performances in Lucino Visconti's "The Leopard" and, perhaps his finest moment, "Le Samourai". His later work has not reached these hights, and his decline is characteristic of the nouvelle vague of French actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo. After a string of box office disasters in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the unexpected failure of Patrice Leconte's film Une Chance sur deux, Alain Delon announced his decision to give up acting in 1997. In 1969, Delon and his wife were at the center of a massive scandal when their bodyguard was found shot dead in a garbage dump. This page about Alain Delon includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Alain Delon News stories about Alain Delon External links for Alain Delon Videos for Alain Delon Wikis about Alain Delon Discussion Groups about Alain Delon Blogs about Alain Delon Images of Alain Delon |
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In 1969, Delon and his wife were at the center of a massive scandal when their bodyguard was found shot dead in a garbage dump. Fairbanks has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard and one for television at 6665 Hollywood Boulevard. After a string of box office disasters in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the unexpected failure of Patrice Leconte's film Une Chance sur deux, Alain Delon announced his decision to give up acting in 1997. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, in the same crypt as his father. His later work has not reached these hights, and his decline is characteristic of the nouvelle vague of French actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo. He died of a heart attack in New York. He also gave tremendous performances in Lucino Visconti's "The Leopard" and, perhaps his finest moment, "Le Samourai". In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed him a special envoy to South America. His breakthrough as a film star came with Plein Soleil, a 1962 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr Ripley. support for Britain during World War II, and was created a KBE in 1949. Delon was born in Sceaux, France. He advocated U.S. Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. Three years later, on May 30, 1991 he married Vera Shelton. Mary Lee Fairbanks died of cancer in 1988. On April 22, 1939, he married Mary Lee Hartford (née Mary Lee Epling), a former wife of George Huntington Hartford, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company heir: they had three daughters. was one of the naked men in the incriminating photos which were used as evidence in the divorce trial of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. It has been claimed that Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He became active in both society and politics, but Joan Crawford did not enjoy these activities and they were divorced in May 1933. He went on a delayed honeymoon to England, where he was entertained by Noel Coward and George, Duke of Kent. Faribanks starred in several pictures with Loretta Young, and with Little Caesar, Outward Bound and The Dawn Patrol his movies began to have more success. Malachy’s Church, New York, New York, they were married. On June 3, 1929, in St. He was also noticed by Joan Crawford, who began to date him. After making some undistinguished films, he took to the stage, where he impressed his father, his step-mother Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin, who encouraged him to continue with acting. Largely on the basis of his name, he was given a contract at age fourteen with Paramount Pictures. With his mother, he lived for a time in California, Paris, and London. and his first wife Anna Beth Sully. His parents divorced when he was ten years old. He was born in New York, the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000) was an American actor. Ghost Story - 1981. State Secret - 1950. The Fighting O'Flynn - 1949. Sinbad the Sailor - 1947. The Corsican Brothers - 1941. Angels Over Broadway - 1940. Gunga Din - 1939. The Prisoner of Zenda - 1937. Catherine the Great - 1934. Morning Glory - 1933. Little Caesar - 1931. The Jazz Age - 1929. Our Modern Maidens - 1929 (with then wife Joan Crawford). Stella Dallas - 1925. |