According to the statement his family members gave to French media outlet AFP the deceased was identified as the deceased was identified as Mr. Delon died early Sunday at his home in Douchy-Montcorbon.

A few hours later the President Emmanuel Macron honored him in his posting in social media writing, “Wistful, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.”

In the heyday of his career, in the 1960s and 1970s, Delon was a star in the 1960s and 1970s. Delon was a first-tier international star, well-paid and often sought-after by the great auteurs of the time.

In the moment he broke onto scenes in the Gangster genre as a depressed, saintly younger sibling as a young sibling in “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960), Luchino Visconti was the director. The following year the film was released, and the actor. Delon played a sexy stock trader, he came the scene of Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “L’Eclisse” (“Eclipse”).

and “Le Samourai” (1967) was made available within the United States as “The Godson,” and the jewelry heist film “Le Cercle Rouge” (1970) in which The Mr. Delon was a sinister mustachioed, ex-con was directed by Jean-Pierre Mélville, the Patron saint of the French New Wave.

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