Alain Delon

Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935, Sceaux, France) is a French theater and film actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He gained his greatest fame after the films “In the Bright Sun” (1960), “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960), “The Leopard” (1963), and “The Black Tulip” (1964). Winner of the César Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Our Story (1984), Alain Delon was born on November 8, 1935, in Sceaux, a southern suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department. Delon spent his childhood in the small neighboring town of Bourg-la-Reine, where his parents moved several years before his birth.[6] Delon was seventeen years old when he saw a poster on the Paris metro: "You will become a test pilot and undergo an internship in Canada."[6]

Alain dreamed of becoming a test pilot. However, when he contacted the Ministry of the Air Force, he learned that enrollment for the flight school for the year had already closed. But the French army was in need of recruits. The offered salary of 200,000 francs seemed like a very substantial sum to the young Alain. So in 1953, leaving his job in Paris, the future actor found himself in the ranks of the Marine Corps paratroopers and went to war in Indochina.[16] In 1956, after demobilization from the army, Alain, along with an army comrade, went first to Marseille, where he spent part of the money he earned in the army, then back to Paris.[16] The young people rented a room in a cheap hotel on Place Pigalle. Delon found work as a waiter in a brasserie located near the Champs-Élysées. However, the future actor didn't like this position: "The administrator, the maitre d', the head waiter—they all yelled at me, a rank-and-file waiter. It wasn't easy for a man with my character to accept this menial position."[16] In the 1960s, Delon worked hard, with several films featuring him being released each year. He also played Zorro in 1975. Alain Delon is 177 cm tall.