French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88 [Video]

Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.Video above: Remembering those we’ve lost in 2024With his handsome looks and tender manner, the prolific actor was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of France’s memorable leading men.Delon was also a producer, appeared in plays and, in later years, in television movies.French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on X to “a French monument.””Alain Delon has played legendary roles and made the world dream,” he wrote. “Melancholic, popular, secretive, he was more than a star.”Delon’s children announced the death on Sunday in a statement to French national news agency Agence France-Presse, a common practice in France. Tributes to Delon immediately started pouring in on social platforms, and all leading French media switched to full-fledged …