Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow.
Posted on 09/21/2020 11:25:06 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Anglo-French actor Michael Lonsdale, who played the villain opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1979 film Moonraker, has died at the age of 89.
In the film, he played Hugo Drax, an industrialist planning to poison all humans on Earth then repopulate the planet from his space station.
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Moonraker was not a great Bond film...But, it had some good parts...Like the pre-title sequence...
Lois Chiles is still alive...I think that she lives in Texas...
Dr.Goodhead is still alive...007, Jaws, and Drax all passed away...
Also played the cop in Day of the Jackal. A great movie!
I was 10.
Good movie with a few problems.
Ditto. Jaws turning face when realizing him and his girlfriend were not up to Dax’s standards was a nice moment.
Well, what to say? The villain outlived James Bond himself...
Yaphet Kotto (Mr. Big in Live and Let Die) is still with us, as is Jane Seymour (the lovely Solitaire). I don’t know if any other villains from the Roger Moore era are left.
Moonraker, a/k/a “Thunderball in Space so we can get in on this Star Wars $$$”
He was a good Bond villain. RIP, Hugo Drax.
Isn’t he Peter Dinklage father?
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Funny thing is, it's probably my favorite Bond film only because I never really got in to the others all that much.
It was a massive hit at the time as well, if I recall.
Excellent performance in the Day of the Jackal. Great movie-one of my favorites.
It was actually a well photographed one, as I liked the on location work done in Rio de Janeiro. Also very much liked the on location cinematography in The Man With the Golden Gun and For Your Eyes Only.
Yet Geroge Soros lives on...
Definitely good cinematography.
Definitely good cinematography.
Definitely good cinematography.
Believe that Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) passed away only a few years (1982) after The Spy Who Loved Me was made. Christopher Lee (The Man With the Golden Gun) lived to a fairly ripe age a few years ago. As did Louis Jourdan (Octopussy). Earlier in the month Diana Rigg (Teresa Bond) passed away.
Frederick Gray! What a surprise. And in distinguished company, all wearing gas masks. You must excuse me, gentlemen, not being English, I sometimes find your sense of humor rather difficult to follow.
A favorite part of the movie.
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