Missed 89 years
Michael Lonsdale .. The 200th round passes
The French-British actor Michael Lonsdale died the day before yesterday, at the age of 89, after a six-decade career in which he participated in dozens of film and television works.
His agent, Olivier Loiseau, explained that the actor, who participated in more than 200 roles, died Monday afternoon at his home in Paris, where he was born in 1931 to a British military father and a French mother.
The actor, who was fluent in English and French, especially through the magnificence of his voice and remarkable performance, succeeded in imprinting the memory of the audience even in his secondary roles.
In 2011, on the eve of his 80th birthday, he won the César Award, the French reserve Oscar, for best actor in a minor role for his role as a monk who ends up killed in Algeria in the film "Of Gods and Men" by Xavier Beauvois.
Among his roles engraved in the memory of viewers during the past decades, the role of Hugo Drax in the James Bond adventure movie "Monryker" in 1979, starring Roger Moore.
Lonsdale grew up in London, then in Morocco during World War II, and decided to go into acting after he was drawn to cinema at an early age, and returned to Paris in 1947, where he discovered theater and took theater lessons to help him overcome the shyness of his personality.
He launched into the theater field in 1955, before moving to the big screen the following year.
His remarkable presence and voice opened the doors of producers who collaborated with him in a large number of works.
In 2011, he won the César Award, the French reserve for the Oscar.
His remarkable presence opened the doors for him to work with major producers.
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