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French actor Michael Lonsdale has passed away at the age of eighty-nine, and is known to Hungarian audiences as the lead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonrise, as well as The Name of the Rose, The Day of the Jackal, and Munich.
His agent, Olivier Loiseau, said Lonsdale died at his home in Paris on Monday.
The actor was born in Paris in May 1931 as the son of a British soldier and a French woman. During his career of more than six decades, Lonsdale has played more than two hundred roles in English and French on television, radio, theater and film.
Among the highlights of his career is the training of one of the monks in the 2010 film People and Gods. The drama, based on the events that occurred, is about seven French monks who were murdered after being kidnapped from their monastery. in 1996 in Algeria during the Civil War. For his performance, Lonsdale received the César Award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, in the category of Best Supporting Actor.
For fans of the James Bond movies, however, he entered film history primarily as the protagonist of Moonrise, Hugo Drax, who sought to destroy humanity. In the 1979 film, Roger Moore played Agent 007.
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