France, Sept. 21 -- The veteran British-French actor Michael Lonsdale has died in Paris, aged 89. Known for his rolein "The Day of the Jackal" and as James Bond villain Hugo Drax and Lonsdale appeared in more than 200 films during a career that spannedsix decades and saw him work with some of film and theatre world's most illustrious directors and stars.

Born on 24 May, 1931, in Paris to an English military officer father and a French mother, hecaught the acting bug in his mid-teens just after the second world war.

After taking a theatre course, his screen break came during the Nouvelle Vague of French cinema.

He appeared as Clement Morane in Francois Truffaut's1968 film La Mariee etait en noir which also starred Jeanne Moreau and Mich...