Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin (Original Caption) Head and shoulders portrait photo of French actor Alain Delon (1935-) smiling in ...
[+] a black sweater. Ca. 1960s.
Bettmann Archive The list of directors with whom France’s beloved and stubbornly private Alain Delon worked with reads as a history of cinema in mid-century postwar Europe: Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni, René Clément, Luchino Visconti, Jacques Deray. Delon’s piercing hitman’s stare, a necessary tool for survival as a pretty-boy in the mileu of real-life gangsters and prostitutes out of which he was more or less hauled onto the screen in the Fifties, got him his early work playing mobsters, thieves and, unsurprisingly, hitmen, as well as their world-weary opposite numbers, cops. Below, Delon as director Joseph Losey’s super-cool lover-boy/assassin in The Assassination of Trotsky , opposite a longtime real-life love of his, German actress Romy Schneider, who played Trotsky’s secretary.
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[+] mysterious Frank Jacson (Alain Delon) assigned to kill Trotsky in a scene from the movie "The Assassination Of Trotsky"which was released on April 20, 1972 . (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images The impenetrable realism of Delon’s darkness was the element about him that so entranced his legions of directors: In the young Delon they found a true European .