Paris (AFP)
Actor Michael Lonsdale, 89, died Monday afternoon after sixty years of a rich career in cinema and theater, his agent told AFP.
The actor with hair and white beard died at his home in Paris, his agent Olivier Loiseau told AFP, confirming information from L'Obs.
In his sixty-year career, he has played more than 200 roles in the cinema, juggling between experimental and popular films, in the theater or even on television.
This actor with the Christian faith pegged to the body obtained in 2011 a César for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his interpretation of Brother Luc, free and heroic monk, assassinated in Tibéhirine in "Des hommes et des dieux" by Xavier Beauvois (Grand Prize at Cannes in 2010).
He appeared again in 2015 in the cinema in a film by Bouli Lanners, "Les Premiers Les Last", then last year, in the short film for the Paris Opera "Degas et Moi", by Arnaud des Pallières.
His long career has seen him both play under the direction of François Truffaut, in "Baisers Volés" in 1968, as the villain in "Moonraker", a James Bond from 1979.
Born in Paris on May 24, 1931, from a liaison between an English officer and a French woman, Michael Lonsdale, perfectly bilingual, was raised in London, then in Morocco.
Returning to Paris in 1947, without a certificate of studies or baccalaureate, he will make decisive encounters that will allow him to get on the stage, working in particular with the actress Delphine Seyrig or the director Samuel Beckett.
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