Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
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Christine, 1958
Delon in the romantic period drama alongside with Romy Schneider
Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
Schneider and Alain Delon, recently engaged, at the Easter Gala at the Sporting Club of Monaco on on 30 March 1959. The couple were engaged until 1963, when they broke up
Photograph: AP
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Plein soleil, 1960
Alain Delon as Tom Ripley in Purple Noon, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley
Photograph: Paris Film/Alamy
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Rocco and His Brothers, 1960
Delon prepares in a boxing gym for his lead role in Visconti’s Italian drama
Photograph: Gerard Landau/INA via Getty Images
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L’eclisse, 1962
Delon, and Monica Vitti in Michaelangelo Antonioni’s drama Eclipse
Photograph: Everett/REX Shutterstock
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The Leopard, 1963
Claudia Cardinale and Delon in Visconti’s Italian epic period drama set in 1860’s Sicily
Photograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com
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L’insoumis, 1964
Delon’s death scene in the film noir, aka The Unvanquished, was used for the cover of The Smiths 1986 album The Queen Is Dead
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Delon and his wife, Nathalie, at their home in Beverly Hills, California, with their son Anthony in 1964. The baby was born while Delon was making his first Hollywood movie, Once A Thief. The couple were married from 1964 until 1968
Photograph: AP
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Once a Thief, 1965
Alain Delon and Ann-Margret
Photograph: MGM/Allstar
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Le samouraï, 1967
Alain Delon as Jean Pierre Melville’s hitman Jef Costello
Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
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Le samouraï, 1967
Delon in a publicity shot for Le Samouraï
Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
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The Girl on a Motorcycle, 1968
Photograph: Alamy
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Jeff, 1969
During the making of the crime film, Delon began a relationship with co-star Mireille Darc, a partnership which lasted until 1982
Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy
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Delon in a crowd of journalists as he arrives at the Palace of Justice of Versailles on 3 December 1969. He was questioned regarding the death of his ex-bodyguard Stevan Marković, whose death provoked a political scandal involving French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
Photograph: Rebours Laurent/AP
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Le cercle rouge, 1970
Photograph: Alamy
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Soleil rouge, 1971
Ursula Andress and Alain Delon in the western
Photograph: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock
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The Concorde … Airport ‘79, 1979
Sylvia Kristel and Delon in the fourth and final instalment of the Airport disaster movie franchise
Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy
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Le choc, 1982
Catherine Deneuve and Alain Delon in the French crime thriller
Photograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com
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Notre histoire, 1984
Delon won the César for best actor for his role as an alcoholic garage owner in this French drama
Photograph: Alamy
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Delon arrives arm-in-arm with Jeanne Moreau and Sophia Loren at Nice airport in 1989, en route to the opening night of the Cannes film festival
Photograph: Remy de la Mauviniere/AP
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Delon’s partner Rosalie van Breemen admires the medal of Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur that he has just received from French president Francois Mitterrand in 1991 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The couple were together from 1987 until 2002
Photograph: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images
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Le jour et la nuit, 1997
Alain Delon and Lauren Bacall leave a news conference in Cuernavaca in Mexico in 1996, promoting the Zapatista-rebellion-set drama directed by philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy
Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP
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Astérix at the Olympic Games 2008
Delon as Julius Caesar
Photograph: ANSA/EPA
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Alain Delon, 1935-2024
Photograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com
