Alain Delon (Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon) is a french actor, born on november 8th, 1935 in Sceaux (A suburb of Paris).

 

Personal life

His parents Edith (pharmaceutical assistant) and Fabien Delon (director of a small neighborhood theater) divorced when he was four.

He is then given to a foster family, where the father is in Fresnes prison guard, allowing him to affirm that he witnessed the execution of Pierre Laval in Court. He is then placed in the catholic pension Saint Nicolas of Issy-les-Moulineaux, where he spent his youth with one of his best friends, Gérard Salomé. He gets fired six times the schools they attend. His mother married second husband Paul Boulogne, a butcher trader Bourg-la-Reine, cleaning him a place in the family home. Alain passes a butcher CAP to resume without any conviction trade stepfather who has sixteen employees.

Alain left school at 14 years old, and in 1953 he served as a fusiller marin in the first Indochina War.

He returned to France in 1956.

In 1957, his new mistress Michèle Cordoba convinces her husband the director Yves Allégret to hire him to shoot his first film "Quand la femme s'en mêle). He played a small role alongside the star Edwige. Then he appeared in the comedy Be beautiful and shut up Marc Allégret, where he met the star Mylène Demongeot and Henri Vidal and another beginner : Jean-Paul Belmondo.

In 1958, he met Romy Schneider on the set of Christine film, directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, with his friend Jean-Claude Brialy and Micheline Presle supplements. The thunderbolt is reciprocal. He was twenty-three, she was twenty, they became engaged March 22, 1959 on Lake Lugano in the Schneider's parents house. They embody the beauty, youth, success and become a couple celebrated by the show business and the public. Alain and Romy will be together during more than 5 years. Alain will break up in 1963, and will marry Nathalie one year later. They will have a son, Anthony (september 1964).
 They will divorce in 1968.

Alain met Mireille Darc, they will stay together till 1982.

Alain will marry Rosalie van Breemen in 1987, they will have a daughter (Anouchka, november 1990) and a son (Alain Fabien, march 1994). Their union ended in 2002.

 

Filmography

 

1957 - Quand la Femme s'en mêle (Directed by Yves Allégret)

1958 - Sois belle et tais-toi (Directed by Marc Allégret)

1958 - Christine (Directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit)

1959 - Faibles femmes (Directed by Michel Boisrond)

1959 - Le chemin des écoliers (Directed by Michel  Boisrond)

1960 - Rocco et ses frères (Directed by Luchino Visconti)

1960 - Plein Soleil (Directed by René Clément)

1961 - Che gioia vivere (Directed by René Clément)

1961 - Les Amours célèbres (Directed by Michel Boisrond)

1962 - L'Amour à la mer (Directed by Guy Gilles)

1962 - L'Eclipse (Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni)

1962 - Carambolages (Directed by Marcel Bluwal)

1962 - Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (Directed by Julien Duvivier)

1963 - Les Félins (Directed by René Clément)

1963 - Mélodie En Sous-Sol (Directed by Henri Verneuil)

1963 - Le Léopard (Directed by Luchino Visconti)

1963 - La Tulipe Noire (Directed by Christian Jacque)

1964 - L'Insoumis (Directed by Alain Cavalier)

1965 - La Rolls Royce Jaune (Directed by Anthony Asquith)

1965 - Les Tueurs de San Francisco (Directed by Ralph Nelson)

1965 - Paris Brûle-t-il ? (Directed by René Clément)

1966 - Texas, nous voilà (Directed by Michael Gordon)

1966 - Les Centurions (Directed by Mark Robson)

1967 - Les Aventuriers (Directed by Robert Enrico)

1967 - Diaboliquement Vôtre (Directed by Julien Duvivier)

1967 - Le Samouraï (Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville)

1968 - Histoires Extraordinaires (Directed by Louis Malle)

1968 - Adieu l'Ami (Directed by Jean Herman)

1968 - La Motocyclette (Directed by Jack Cardiff)

1969 - Jeff (Directed by Jean Herman)

1969 - Le Clan des Siciliens (Directed by Henri Verneuil)

1969 - La Piscine (Directed by Jacques Deray)

1970 - Madly (Directed by Roger Kahane)