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Michael Lonsdale
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch, commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is most famous for being cast as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (198…
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culture · French-British actor (1931–2020) · actor · television actor · film actor · stage actor · writer · theatre director · painter · film director · artist · also Michael Lonsdale, Michel Lonsdale, Lonsdale
Born 24 May 1931 · Died 21 September 2020 · Q346540
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2026· 3 entries
“but I couldn’t resist playing this wonderful, generous character.”
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2020· 2 entries
AOL: Michael Lonsdale, actor who played Bond villain Hugo Drax, dies at 89
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Died 2020-09-21.
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Marguerite Duras (2016).
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“It was her or nothing, and that’s why at 85 I’m still unmarried.”
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2011· 3 entries
Won Medal of the City of Paris (2011).
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Awarded Globes de Cristal Awards for Of Gods and Men (2011).
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Awarded César Award for Best Supporting Actor for Of Gods and Men (2011).
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1947· 1 entry
But was drawn into the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-05-24.
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