I came down with a girl that I liked, who loved me… he told a Cannes masterclass in 2019.
His next big break came via the actress Michele Cordoue, with whom he had an affair.
Delon was candid about the role women had played in his early career.
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If I hadnt met the women I met, I would have died long ago.
It would mark the beginning of one the most celebrated cinema love stories of the time.
Schneider was already famous on the back of herSissiroles, while 23-year-old Delon was still an unknown.
French actor Alain Delon with his partner, actress Romy Schneider (1938 – 1982), circa 1960.Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
The same year, he also starred in Luchino Viscontis Milan-set melodramaRocco and His Brothers.
Delon would reunite with Visconti onThe Leopardin 1963, co-starring alongside Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster.
His performance garnered him a nomination for most promising male newcomer in the 1964 Golden Globes.
The 1960s would also see Delon collaborate with Jean-Pierre Melville for the first time on the 1967 thrillerLe Samourai.
Outside of this genre, other highlights of Delons career in this period included Joseph Loseys award-winning Holocaust dramaMr.
Director and screenwriter Costa-Gavras, who co-wrote the screenplay, paid tribute to Delon.
He was completely self-taught, he said in an interview with radio web link France Inter on Sunday.
He used his own meanders, and this resulted in an extraordinary truth.
Its a film which gave an extraordinary dimension to Alain Delon, he said of the actors performance inMr.
Despite his prolific career spanning 107 acting credits, Delon won very few acting awards.
God, who is a bad screenwriter, said, Cut!
, wrote the Figaro.
Delon did not get up.
