Michael Lonsdale, Bond Villain in 'Moonraker,' Dies at 89
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hollywoodreporter.comMichael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film Moonraker and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died.
He was 89. Lonsdale died Monday at his home in Paris, his agent, Olivier Loiseau, told the AFP. Born in Paris, Lonsdale portrayed Louis XVI in Jefferson in Paris (1995) and appeared in other notable films including Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose (1986), James Ivory's The Remains of the Day(1993), John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998) and Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) during his busy six-decade career.
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