Alain Delon, the intense and intensely handsome French actor who, working with some of Europe's most revered 20th-century directors, played cold Corsican gangsters as convincingly as hot Italian lovers, has died.
During his heyday, the 1960s and '70s, Mr. Delon was a first-tier international star, highly paid and often sought after by the era's great auteurs.
President Emmanuel Macron honored him in a post on social media, saying, Wistful, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.
When he burst on the scene in the gangster genre, as a sad-eyed, saintly young sibling in Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Luchino Visconti was in the director's chair.
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