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.

Derek Meddings and his team received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects on Moonraker. The miniature fleet of space shuttles featured in the film’s climax was filmed on the 007 Stage, ...

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.

It’s the James Bond movie in which Roger Moore’s 007 has sex in zero gravity, in outer space, while the Queen watches back home via a satellite transmission. “My God, what is Bond doing?” M splutters.

When it comes to Bond, maybe the world is enough. In “Moonraker,” a madman named Hugo Drax hatches an elaborate plan to launch into space, poison every living thing on earth and then return with a ...

From the 1960s goofiness of “Dr. No” and “Goldfinger” to the darker realism of the Daniel Craig era, the James Bond franchise has taken on many tones over the years. Each new actor puts their own spin ...

Lewis Gilbert, the Oscar-nominated British filmmaker whose credits include “Alfie” and three James Bond titles, died on Feb. 23. He was 97. The Directors Guild of America released a statement on ...

The game, which is being developed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. Will incorporate the stories of six Bond films, retelling them with an over-arching ...

Whilst Double-0 Seven had flirted with outer space before, Sir Roger Moore’s James Bond proved that the sky was not the limit in Moonraker (1979)! When an American aircraft transporting a Moonraker ...