British-French actor Michael Lonsdale, who is widely recognised as the villain opposite James Bond in “Moonraker”, died on Monday. He was 89.
Lonsdale, who was bilingual, chalked up more than 200 roles over a six-decade career, equally at ease in experimental arthouse productions as in big-budget crowd-pleasers.
With his silky yet imposing voice and a distinctive goatee, Lonsdale often served up memorable performances that stuck with viewers even when only in minor roles.
His agent, Olivier Loiseau, said he had died at his home in Paris, the city where he was born on May 24, 1931, to 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.

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