Michael Lonsdale is dead at the age of 89, his agent said on Monday.

In nearly sixty years of career, the actor has embodied more than 200 roles in the cinema, the theater or even on television.

The sign of a successful life?

Asked about the subject in 2012 at the microphone of Europe 1, Michael Lonsdale was a philosopher and confided: "I do not really like the word succeed."

INTERVIEW

Michael Lonsdale is dead.

The French actor died at the age of 89, as his agent announced on Monday.

Returning to Paris in 1947 after a childhood in London, without a certificate of studies or a baccalaureate, Michael Lonsdale left behind an immense career, having played 200 roles in cinema, theater and television.

Can we conclude that he has succeeded in his life?

"I don't really like the word 'succeed'. Succeed, succeed, succeed ... Life is not a conquest," said the main interested party on Europe 1 in April 2012.

His long career has seen Michael Lonsdale both play under the direction of François Truffaut, in 

Stolen Kisses

 in 1968, as the villainous Hugo Drax in 

Moonraker

, a James Bond released in 1979. In 1986, he appears alongside Sean Connery and Christian Slater in 

The Name of the Rose

.

In 2011, he won the César for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his interpretation of Brother Luc, a free and heroic monk assassinated in Tibéhirine, in 

Des hommes et des dieux

, by Xavier Beauvois.

A little psychology lesson, by Michael Lonsdale

But for this actor with the Christian faith pegged to the body, life should not be reduced to a lengthy CV or an accumulation of trophies.

"People have too an idea according to which if we do not succeed, we are not much. It even creates deep and unconscious discomfort", philosophized Michael Lonsdale in 2012, at the microphone of Nikos Aliagas.

"People despise themselves inside. They say to themselves: 'I did not succeed, I am not terrible, I am even bad, I am nothing ... And then there happens a little cancer of the soul ", he still theorized.

Before concluding, as a warning: "Then they end up no longer loving each other. And when you no longer love yourself, you end up no longer loving others."