French actor Michael Lonsdale, who was known internationally for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film "Moonraker" and detective Claude Lebel in "The Day of the Jackal," has ...

It’s the end of an era, but it doesn’t seem to be the start of a better one. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the daughter and stepson of storied James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, have ...

Longtime "James Bond" producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are stepping back. Amazon MGM Studios will now have full creative control of the franchise. There have been 27 "Bond" films over ...

The thrilling wartime adventures of Ian Fleming have famously been cited as the stimulus for his iconic James Bond novels. Serving as a naval intelligence officer, Fleming was instrumental in ...

Released in 1979, Moonraker was directed by Lewis Gilbert, who had previously made two other Bond movies: 1967’s You Only Live Twice and 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me. It saw Roger Moore reprise his ...

PARIS (AP) — Michael Lonsdale, a 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, has died at 89. From his ...