Alain Delon Trivia
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59 free Alain Delon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Alain Delon trivia quiz covers the French screen icon from a Paris suburb to a Swiss passport and a state of near-mythic celebrity. The easy questions are the ones any film fan can answer: the Highsmith novel behind his breakthrough, the director of Le Samourai, the actress he formed a mythical couple with and the singer he spoke over on Paroles, paroles. From there it moves into his turbulent youth: the boarding schools that expelled him, the butcher's apprenticeship, the Navy stint in Indochina that ended in a prison cell. The harder end is for cinephiles and pub-quiz specialists: the car crash that scarred his chin, the Hollywood contract he turned down, Delon's method of taking distribution rights instead of a salary, the roles he declined from Lawrence of Arabia to The Godfather, the sunglasses Chow Yun-fat made famous, the bodyguard found in a rubbish dump, the boxing champion he promoted, the Smiths album cover, his Cesar win, the 72 guns seized from his home and the dog he asked to have buried beside him. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries for the actor and his films before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Cannes Film Festival quizzes next.
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Q 01Delon played the assassin of which revolutionary in Joseph Losey's 1972 film co-starring Richard Burton?
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky. Delon played the Soviet agent who befriended one of the exile's followers to get inside his Mexican home and kill him, with Richard Burton as the victim.
Q 02Delon's father later ran a cinema in Bourg-la-Reine; what was his job there when Alain was born?
Projectionist
Projectionist. His mother worked in a pharmacy in the same town; the couple divorced when Alain was four and placed him with a foster family.
Q 03Whose execution did the young Delon hear from his foster family's home next to Fresnes prison in 1945?
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval. Vichy's former premier swallowed poison on the morning of his execution, so doctors revived him to face the firing squad whose volley the nine-year-old heard next door.
Q 04In which trade did the teenage Delon earn a vocational certificate?
Charcuterie
Charcuterie. His mother had married a pork butcher in Bourg-la-Reine and put the boy to work in the family shop, a future he escaped at 17 by enlisting.
Q 05Which branch of the armed forces did Delon join at 17, serving in Indochina?
The Navy
The Navy. Posted ashore in Saigon, he spent almost a year of his service locked up for indiscipline and was dishonourably discharged.
Q 06What did Delon steal while serving in Indochina, one of the offences behind his dishonourable discharge?
A jeep
A jeep. He took it without permission and crashed it, one of a string of offences that had him spending his 20th birthday in a military prison.
Q 07Which Hollywood producer offered the young Delon a seven-year contract on condition he learn English?
David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick, whose offer Delon never took up: director Yves Allégret gave him a small part in a French crime film, and he chose to stay and start his career at home.
Q 08Which American star played the Sicilian prince at the centre of The Leopard, opposite Delon?
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster. A decade later the two were reunited in the spy thriller Scorpio, with Delon as the assassin the CIA sends to kill his old mentor.
Q 09Which actress chose Delon as her leading man in Christine (1958) and became his fiancee?
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider. The Sissi star and the newcomer first met at Orly airport for the press with no language in common, and were a couple by the end of the shoot.
Q 10Which Patricia Highsmith character did Delon play in Purple Noon (1960)?
Tom Ripley
Tom Ripley. Highsmith approved of Delon in the part but not of the ending: in her novel the murderer gets away with it, while the film leaves the police closing in.
Q 11Who directed Rocco and His Brothers (1960), in which Delon played the title role?
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti. He cast the Frenchman as a gentle southern migrant who boxes only to keep his family afloat in Milan, and had him dubbed into Italian.
Q 12Which veteran French star played the old crook who recruits Delon's young thief in Any Number Can Win (1963)?
Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin. Delon had been captivated by him in Touchez pas au grisbi, seen in a Saigon cinema during his military service; the pair made two more crime films together.
Q 13Which Antonioni film paired Delon with Monica Vitti in 1962?
L'Eclisse
Q 21Which 1968 Delon film with Marianne Faithfull was the first to receive an X rating in the United States?
The Girl on a Motorcycle
The Girl on a Motorcycle. Warner Bros. later trimmed it to win an R and re-released it to Americans under a new title, Naked Under Leather.
Q 22Which 1969 thriller reunited Delon and his former fiancee on the French Riviera?
La Piscine
La Piscine. Delon insisted she be cast over the producers' misgivings, and they played a couple whose lazy summer by the pool ends with a house guest drowned.
Q 23Stefan Markovic, whose 1968 murder grew into a scandal touching Georges Pompidou, had worked for Delon as what?
His bodyguard
L'Eclisse. Delon's stockbroker and Vitti's translator agree to meet that evening at their usual spot, but in the famous final sequence the camera waits there alone: neither of them comes.
Q 14What did Delon take instead of a salary for the heist film Any Number Can Win?
Its rights in several countries
Its rights in several countries. The backers said he could do the film for free, so he sold it himself in Japan and elsewhere, and his co-star grumbled that Delon made ten times his own fee.
Q 15Which character did Delon play in the 1963 epic The Leopard?
Tancredi
Tancredi. The prince's penniless nephew fights for Garibaldi's rebels, then courts the rich mayor's daughter, a match his uncle backs because the boy's ambitions will need her money.
Q 16In The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), Delon's Italian photographer romances a gangster's girlfriend played by which star?
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine. Her character falls for the photographer while the mobster is away on business, then gives him up and goes back to the gangster.
Q 17Which singer-actor starred opposite Delon in the 1966 comedy Western Texas Across the River?
Dean Martin
Dean Martin. He plays a rough frontier guide who nicknames Delon's fugitive Spanish duke 'Baldy' as the two ride into Texas together.
Q 18Who directed Delon as the hitman Jef Costello in Le Samourai (1967)?
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville. By his own account he read Delon the script aloud; after seven and a half minutes without a word of dialogue, the actor stopped him and said he would do it.
Q 19What pet does hitman Jef Costello keep in his spartan Paris apartment in Le Samourai?
A small bird in a cage
A small bird in a cage. The director cast a female bullfinch for its muted colours, and it earns its keep: scattered feathers warn Costello that the police have been in to bug the room.
Q 20Le Samourai reached US cinemas dubbed in 1972 under which new title?
The Godson
The Godson. The New York Times headed its review 'No Relation to Godfather', and its critic praised the original while calling the English dubbing dreadful.
His bodyguard. Markovic had written to his brother that if he were killed, Delon and a Corsican gangster friend would be to blame; both were questioned, but the case was never solved.
Q 24Which fellow French star co-starred with Delon in the 1970 gangster hit Borsalino?
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo. He then took Delon, who was also the producer, to court because the billing put Delon's name ahead of his, against their contract.
Q 25What do Delon and his partners rob in Le Cercle Rouge's long near-silent heist?
A jewellery shop
A jewellery shop. The break-in on Place Vendôme goes off perfectly; the gang is undone afterwards, when their fence refuses to take the haul.
Q 26Which Japanese star joined Delon and Charles Bronson in the Western Red Sun (1971)?
Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune. He plays a samurai with seven days to win back the ceremonial sword that Delon's bandit steals from Japan's ambassador, or take his own life in disgrace.
Q 27With which singer did Delon record the spoken part of the 1973 hit Paroles, paroles?
Dalida
Dalida. The two had been friends since the 1950s, when both were unknowns in Paris; on the record he murmurs sweet nothings and she brushes them off as mere words.
Q 28Which masked hero did Delon play in a 1975 Italian-French film?
Zorro
Zorro. One of the first Western films shown in China after the Cultural Revolution, it reportedly drew tens of millions there and made Delon a household name.
Q 29In Monsieur Klein (1976), Delon's art dealer in occupied Paris is mistaken for what?
A Jewish man of the same name
A Jewish man of the same name. Klein has been buying art on the cheap from Jews desperate to flee; unable to shake off the other man's identity, he ends up deported himself.
Q 30Delon's last bid for Hollywood stardom was a 1979 disaster sequel set aboard which aircraft?
Concorde
Concorde. He played the French captain flying it to Paris under attack; the fourth Airport film did poorly in America, and he went back to making thrillers at home.