Michael Lonsdale, James Bond villain Hugo Drax, dead at 89

drug dealer has been relentlessly mocked online for looking like James Bond villain Jaws.

Daniel Craig will bid adieu to James Bond in No Time To Die. While the Bond movie, which has now been pushed to 2021, will watch Craig walk towards the exit door, all eyes are on the entry door.

Rumors have been swirling that Harry Styles is in the running to play James Bond in the next 007 movie, but now his rep is shooting that down.

official James Bond Twitter account wrote: “MGM, Universal and Bond producers, Michael G.

We now have official confirmation from the producers of James Bond that Daniel Craig won’t return (even though he has said as much countless times).

Is James Bond finally settling down?

No Time To Die will complete the story arc that began with Daniel Craig’s debut as James Bond in Casino Royale, with 007’s romance with Madeleine Swann playing a key part.“It’s the fifth and final [Bond] film that Daniel Craig is going to be doing,” producer Barbara Broccoli reveals on the first episode of No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast. “[No Time To Die is] a culmination of everything that his portrayal of the character has been through, and it ties up all the storylines.

When he was just 22, Henry Cavill was one of many actors who auditioned to play James Bond in “Casino Royale”.

No Time To Die have been rife following speculation that Tom Hardy could be stepping into the iconic role.In a new interview with GQ, Cavill, who once auditioned for the role of 007 aged 22, said he would still love to play Bond.Cavill said: “If Barbara [Bond producer Barbara Broccoli] and Mike [co-producer Michael G. Wilson] were interested in that, I would absolutely jump at the opportunity.“At this stage, it’s all up in the air.

PARIS -- Michael Lonsdale, an enigmatic giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of the world’s top directors in an acting career that spanned 60 years, died Monday at 89, his agent said.From his role as the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker” to that of a French monk in Algeria in the 2011 movie “Of Gods and Men,” Lonsdale acted, often in brilliant supporting roles, under top directors including Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Francois Truffaut and Louis

Michael Lonsdale was a French actor whose notable roles included Hugo Drax, the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker.”Lonsdale’s acting career took place largely in Europe, where he appeared in dozens of movies, TV shows, and stage productions. Yet he worked with legendary U.S.

Of Gods and Men, 2010), as one of a group of Trappist monks living in rural Algeria. “I’d vowed never to accept another role as a priest,” Lonsdale said, “but I couldn’t resist playing this wonderful, generous character.”It was Orson Welles who first cast Lonsdale as a priest, in The Trial (1962).

Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film Moonraker and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died. He was 89.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorBritish-French actor Michael Lonsdale, known for his roles in Bond movie Moonraker and thriller The Day Of The Jackal, has died aged 89 in Paris, his agent has confirmed to us.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 Remains Of The Day, crime pic Ronin and historical-thriller Munich.Born in Paris and raised on the island of Guernsey and then