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Lovelorn Anglo-French actor best known for playing the dogged detective in The Day of the Jackal and the Bond villain in Moonraker

Michael Lonsdale once remarked that he became an actor because it was the only way to be all the different people he would like to be but could not fit into a single lifetime. From Lebel, the calm French police commissioner who doggedly pursues the British assassin played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973), to Hugo Drax, the suave, bearded Bond villain in...Michael Lonsdale once remarked that he became an actor because it was the only way to be all the...Michael Lonsdale once remarked that he became an actor because it was the only way to be all the...