PARIS (Reuters) - French movie actor Alain Delon, heart throb and screen tough guy for over four decades, has decided to quit films. "I think I've said everything I wanted to say in cinema... I think I'd better retire," a disabused Delon, 62, said in a live television interview. Delon was interviewed about his latest film, "1 chance sur 2" (1 chance out of 2), released this week to poor reviews. The film, a cops and robbers comedy, co-stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, Delon's old accomplice with whom he made such blockbuster hits as "Borsalino." Delon added in the interview: "I began acting with Jean-Paul so I think we've now come full circle." The notoriously moody Delon is known to have been highly disappointed by public indifference to his last three films, all box office flops. His most widely acclaimed performances have been with such noted directors as Italy's Luchino Visconti, France's Jean-Pierre Melville and American Joseph Losey. But Delon made most of his considerable fortune with such popular potboilers as the amusing "Borsalino" (1970) and dozens of detective-type films made in the past 20 years. Delon said he would continue acting on the stage, something he only took up about a decade ago. The actor had an unsettled childhood, beginning with his parents' divorce. He ran away from home at least once and was expelled from several Catholic schools. At 17 he enlisted in the French navy and served in the last stages of France's Indochina war of 1946-1954. On his return, and before being discovered while frequenting the cafes of Paris' bohemian St. Germain des Pres quarter, Delon was associated with shady characters. That part of his past came back with a vengeance in 1968. The actor and his former wife, Natalie Delon, were embroiled in one of France's biggest scandals when the corpse of Delon's former bodyguard, Stefan Markovic, was found in a garbage dump outside Paris. The police investigation implicated numerous celebrities and politicians and generated rumours that ultimately touched the wife of future President Georges Pompidou. Delon, a friend of Pompidou and of the former gangster who was charged with the murder, Francois Marcantoni, was questioned intensively by police investigators. In addition to acting, Delon has promoted boxing matches, bought and sold airplanes, ran a perfume line and peddled a range of men's toiletries bearing his name. In 1964, he formed his own film production company, Adel.