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Alain Delon has died

The celebrated actor and star of Plein Soleil and Le Samouraï has died

He was spotted by Hollywood producer David O Selznick at Cannes and signed to a contract, but decided to try his luck in French cinema and made his debut with a small role in Yves Allégret’s 1957 thriller Send a Woman When the Devil Fails. The former, a French-language version of The Talented Mr Ripley, turned Delon into a major star while Rocco – a saga about a southern Italian peasant family moving to the prosperous north – brought him into the orbit of Visconti, one of Europe’s foremost auteurs. Delon appeared in Lost Command, about French paratroopers in the second world war, Dean Martin western Texas Across the River, and Is Paris Burning?, another wartime epic starring Kirk Douglas.

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