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Alain Delon, French Star of ‘Le Samourai,’ Dies at 88
Alain Delon, the French actor most famous for his roles in the films of New Wave director Jean-Pierre Melville, especially 'Le Samourai,' has died.
After Jean-Paul Belmondo defined French cool at the beginning of the New Wave in Godard’s “Breathless,” Delon and director Melville very consciously redefined it in “Le Samourai,” in which he played a killer for hire always adjusting his fedora so it was just so, and the actor was consequently compared to James Dean. In Visconti’s excellent, operatic “Rocco and His Brothers,” also made in 1960, Delon played the title character, part of a poor family who move north to Milan from Southern Italy in search of greater opportunities. In 1971 Delon starred with Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress and Capucine in the Terence Young-directed international production “Red Sun”; the Western, shot in Spain, was not much liked in the U.S. but enjoyed success in Europe and Asia.
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