Michael Lonsdale died at his home in Paris.
Paris:
Michael Lonsdale, the Franco-British actor with a long film and theatrical career but most widely recognized as the villainous opposite James Bond in “Moonraker”, died on Monday at the age of 89, his agent told the ‘AFP.
Lonsdale, who was bilingual, landed more than 200 roles over a six-decade career, equally at home in experimental arthouse productions as well as large budgets.
With her silky but commanding voice and a distinctive goatee, Lonsdale often delivered memorable performances that stuck with viewers, even if only in minor roles.
His agent, Olivier Loiseau, said he died at his home in Paris, the city where he was born on May 24, 1931, of an English military officer and a French mother.
Arguably the highlight of his career came when he played a Trappist monk in “Of Gods and Men” in 2010.
Based on real events, the film tells the story of seven French monks who were murdered after being kidnapped from their monastery in Algeria in 1996 during the country’s civil war.
For the role, Lonsdale won his first and only Caesar award – the French version of the Oscars – for Best Supporting Actor in 2011.
Yet for millions of people he was the sadistic industrialist Hugo Drax in the 1979 Bond film “Moonraker” starring Roger Moore, with a plan to destroy Earth’s population with nerve gas while he escaped. in the space.
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