According to a statement that his family released to French media outlet AFP according to a statement from his family, 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 an tweet in social media stating, “Wistful, popular, secretive, he was more than a star: a French monument.”

In his golden age, the 1960s and 1970s Delon was a star in the 1960s and 1970s. Delon was a first-tier international superstar, who was highly compensated and frequently sought-after by the greatest auteurs of the time.

When he exploded onto scenes in the Gangster genre as a sad-eyed and saintly younger sibling on the film “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960), Luchino Visconti was the director. The following year in the same film, the actor. Delon played a sexy stock broker and was featured the scene of Michelangelo Antonioni‘s “L’Eclisse” (“Eclipse”).

Then there was “Le Samourai” (1967) which was made available within the United States as “The Godson,” as well as the jewelry-heist film “Le Cercle Rouge” (1970) where The Mr. Delon was a sinister mustachioed, ex-con Both films were directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. one of the patron saints of French New Wave.

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