Actor
24 May 1931 to 21 September 2020
A French actor best known with English-language audiences for his role as villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979), Lonsdale received a BAFTA nomination for The Day of the Jackal (1973). In France he starred in The Bride Wore Black (1968), India Song (1975) and won a Cesar for Of Gods and Men (2010).
Read Michael Lonsdale's Guardian obituary
Read Michael Lonsdale's New York Times obituary
