Michael Lonsdale is dead at the age of 89, his agent said on Monday. In nearly sixty years of career, the actor has played more than 200 roles in the cinema, the theater or even on television. The sign of a successful life? Asked about the subject in April 2012 at the microphone of Nikos Aliagas on Europe 1, Michael Lonsdale was a philosopher and confided: "I do not really like the word succeed".