Michael Lonsdale, the veteran British-French actor known for his roles in Bond movie Moonraker and thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died in Paris, his agent has confirmed to Deadline. He was 89.
Lonsdale appeared in more than 200 film and TV projects, working both in English and French.
Among his other most high-profile English-language films were drama The Remains of The Day, crime pic Ronin and historical-thriller Munich.
Born in Paris and raised on the island of Guernsey and then London, Lonsdale returned to Paris to study painting in 1947. He first appeared on stage at 24 and would go on to score roles in 1950s French genre movies.
In the 1970s, he worked with acclaimed directors including Louis Malle, Marcel Carné, Joseph Losey, Alain Resnais, Jacques Bral and Marguerite Duras. In the same decade, he was BAFTA-nominated for his supporting role in thriller The Day of the Jackal, about an attempted...
Lonsdale appeared in more than 200 film and TV projects, working both in English and French.
Among his other most high-profile English-language films were drama The Remains of The Day, crime pic Ronin and historical-thriller Munich.
Born in Paris and raised on the island of Guernsey and then London, Lonsdale returned to Paris to study painting in 1947. He first appeared on stage at 24 and would go on to score roles in 1950s French genre movies.
In the 1970s, he worked with acclaimed directors including Louis Malle, Marcel Carné, Joseph Losey, Alain Resnais, Jacques Bral and Marguerite Duras. In the same decade, he was BAFTA-nominated for his supporting role in thriller The Day of the Jackal, about an attempted...
- 9/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced an expanded Rendez-Vous with French Cinema program featuring the inclusion of over a dozen contemporary documentaries and classic films. "For years, we have dreamed of evolving Rendez-Vous with French Film into a broader kind of program that would include documentaries, revivals and other kind of film and media work beyond feature films,” says Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Pena. “This year, with the opening of the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, we finally have the opportunity for this kind of expansion, which we're calling 'Rendez-Vous +.'" Full Rendez-vous + Line-up and Schedule: Exterior Night (Extérieur, nuit) Jacques Bral, 1980, France, 112m A jazz musician (Gérard Lanvin) and a struggling writer (André Dussollier) fall under the spell of a mysterious female taxi driver (Christine Boisson) in director Bral’s moody, boozy,...
- 2/13/2012
- Indiewire
Michael Haneke's film on octogenarians put through the test is receiving some funding coin (from the Cnc - National Film and Moving Image Centre) and will now be going by the new title of Love. Formerly known as "These Two", production will begin next month. Also among the projects receiving advances on receipts you should keep an eye out for Ursula Meier (see pic). Her debut film Home - which saw Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet with family in tow duking it out versus a traffic-filled highway who received festival and art-house theater acclaim. I personally thought the film's concept looked great on paper but wasn't convinced of Meier's execution, but I'm already enticed by her next project: L’enfant D’en Haut (“The Child From Above”) which centres on 12-year-old Simon, a child from an industrial valley who lives with a mother so young that she insists on...
- 12/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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