It was the first film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Clement’s camera swoons over Delon, who plays Ripley, as he glides through a seaside market in an impeccabl...
We can’t even look away.”Purple Noon made Delon one of the highest-paid French actors of his era. He started his own production companies and branched out into singing, recording at least one hit, “Pa...
Their highly publicized breakup in 1964 was one of the many scandals that would mark his off-screen life.Those included the mysterious murder of his bodyguard in 1968, salacious rumors of exclusive se...
Although he was best known for playing handsome, amoral criminals, Delon showed range and artistic ambition on screen, especially as he aged.In 1976's Mr. Klein, a film he also produced, Delon starred...