Alain Delon, who died recently, is considered the European Marlon Brando. His photo was under the pillow of many girls in the 1960s and 1970s. We all know the movies in which him and other French actors were protagonists.
For instance, The Sicilian Clan, was a 1969 action movie, directed by Henri Verneuil. Alain Delon plays next to Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin.
In addition, who doesn’t know Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain’s friend and excellent actor.
Jean-Paul Belmondo was the protagonist in the 1960 masterpiece Breathless (Original title: À bout de souffle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
In this post I explore the fame of these four French actors:
- Alain Delon
- Jean Gabin
- Lino Ventura
- Jean-Paul Belmondo.
And the most famous
In the English books Alain Delon ranks first with 1.4 famons folowed by Jean Gabin with 1.1 famons. Ventura and Belmondo have much lower fame, 0.3 and 0.2 famons respectively.
The situation changes drastically when we consider the appearance of their names in the French books. In this case although the ranking of these four actors does not change, their fame levels changes by one order of magnitude.
Thus, Alain Delon ranks first with 39.2 famons and Jean Gabin 36.8 famons. Lino Ventura has 13.6 famons and Belmondo ranks fourth with 3.8 famons.
The appearance of the names of the four actors in the books agrees with their chronological evolution of their acting career.
Finally, Alain Delon and Jean Gabin rank above Woody Allen and below John Lennon. Thus they rank so far at the 7th and 8th position among the 94 actresses/actors checked so far.
Stay tuned for more quests.
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