Michael Lonsdale
Acting
Born: May 24, 1931 · Paris, France
Died: September 21, 2020 (aged 89)
Highest Rated
Biography
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day (1993). Lonsdale was born in Paris, the natural son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale Crouch and Simone Calderon (née Béraud). He was brought up initially on the island of Jersey, then in London from 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco. He returned to Paris to study painting in 1947, but was drawn into the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24. Lonsdale was bilingual, and appeared in both English-language and French-language productions. He appeared in a starring role with Roger Moore in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. and with Sean Connery, in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose. He would later appear in Munich (2005), a film that also starred another Bond, Daniel Craig. In February 2011, he won a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Of Gods and Men. Lonsdale was also the author of ten books. A practising Roman Catholic, he was close to the Emmanuel Community. In his 2016 memoir Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie, Lonsdale revealed he had fallen for Delphine Seyrig, having met her as a student in Tania Balachova's acting classes at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1947. He wrote that "it was her or nothing", which was why he never married. Lonsdale died in Paris on 21 September 2020, aged 89. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Name of the Rose
1986
Munich
2005
Ronin
1998
Moonraker
1979
Agora
2009
The Remains of the Day
1993
The Day of the Jackal
1973
The Trial
1962
Goya's Ghosts
2006
Hibernatus
1969
Stolen Kisses
1968
Of Gods and Men
2010
Photos (1)
Movies (170)
The Name of the Rose
The Abbot
Munich
Papa
The Day of the Jackal
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Moonraker
Hugo Drax
The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
Ronin
Jean-Pierre
Agora
Theon
Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
The Trial
Priest
Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard
Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Mr. Klein
Pierre
Hibernatus
Edouard Loriebat
To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
The Phantom of Liberty
Hatter
Erendira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
Actors
Man walking down the street
The Bride Wore Black
Morane
Of Gods and Men
Luc
Five Times Two
Bernard
Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
Un paquebot dans la tête
Roland Gougean-Roland
Spring
L'homme qui fuit
Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
The Bunker
Martin Bormann
A Monkey's Tale
Maître Flavius (Voice)
Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
The Stud
Commissioner Donald Both
Sculpt
2016
The Last Mistress
le vicomte Prony
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Dollabella
The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
Autumn
Julien, le réalisateur
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
(voice)
Adieu
Serge
The Left-Handed Woman
The Waiter
Maestro
Cedric Rovère
Titeuf
Le psy (voice)
The Passage
Renoudot
The Man from London
Kocsmáros (voice)
Woyzeck
Le capitaine
Under a False Name
David
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Professor Stangerson
Enigma
Bodley
Serious as Pleasure
Inspecteur Fournier
Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
The Boulugres
Le roi (voice)
Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
Le rose et le blanc
Léon
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
There Once Was a Cop
Commissioner Lucas
Cygne II
Narrator (voice)
Winter
Julien & Marc
Gentille
Jean
Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
Your Money or Your Life
Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Don Juan
Don Luis
Mad Enough to Kill
Stephane Mostri
Special Section
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Jaloux comme un tigre
The grimacing motorist
India Song
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Mauvais Genre
Honoré de Balzac
Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
The Old Maid
Monod
Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Le Furet
Don Salvadore
The Suspects
Judge Souftries
Snobs!
Charles Dufaut
The Immoral Moment
Mercier
The Accuser
Abéraud
Emile Reynaud
Narrator
Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond
Out 1
Thomas
Degas and I
Edgar Degas
The Life of Mirrors
2025
The Separation
Paul Doumer
Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Bartleby
L'Huissier
You'll Miss Me
Max
My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
The Track
David Sutter
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antonie
Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand
Le Renard jaune
Jean Virno
Noise of Love and War
The director
Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
Let There Be Light!
Monseigneur Loublié
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Bartleby (voice)
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Daniel
Caravan to Vaccarès
Duc de Croyter
Crime Does Not Pay
Acteur
Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
Dieu sait quoi
Narrator
The Pink Telephone
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Narrator
Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
Right to the city
Narrator
It Happened in Aden
Sinclair
Hail! Mafia
Hyman
A Dirty Story
The voyeur
Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
La Grande Paulette
Paul
Les Trois Sœurs
Andreï Prodarov
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Le Petit Nicolas
The father
The Itchy Palm
Nobert
Bazin's Film
Narrator
The Door Slams
Georges
Those Facing Us
Mikaël
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
The Buddies
Lamendin
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
Un troisième
Le réalisateur
The Cardboard Village
Old Priest
La Fenêtre
Bracquemont
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Cammerschulze
Une jeunesse
Béjardy
Adorable Liar
Albert
Chut !
Sergel
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Stéphane
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
L'Avocat de la Défense
The Risk of Living
narrator
Aloïse
le médecin
Scrambled Eggs
The President of the Republic
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Narrator
Rosenn
(voice)
Invisible
Le gardien
The Nail Clippers
Le mari
Destroy, She Said
Stein
Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins
The Judge
Le docteur
The Outsider
Narrator (Voice)
Jaune, Le Soleil
Un juif
La Rényon lontan
Narrator (voice)
The Little Misses
L'elève
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
Concerto for an Exile
Un acteur au théâtre
Jeanne, à petits pas
Louis
African Glory
Christopher Columbus
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The Vice Consul of Lahore
Alone
Ludovic
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Narrator
L'air d'aimer
Raymond
The Ghostly Rental
Kernan
Comédie
L'homme (M)
The Big Wash
Delaroche
Les Années Lumière
Narrator (voice)
Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, the financier
L'ordre du jour
Stark
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Narrateur
The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert
Earthen Man
(voice)
Le Mythe Cathare
Narrator
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
(voice)
N: The Madness Of Reason
Narrator
La Plante Humaine
Michel
Mersonne ne m'aime
Commissioner Bancau
TV Shows (11)
Maigret
Guillaume Serre · 1 eps
Maigret
Sir Lampson · 1 eps
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Socrates · 1 eps
Out 1
Thomas · 8 eps
Smiley's People
Anton Grigoriev · 2 eps
Malaventure
Georges Mortier · 6 eps
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Smith · 1 eps
Le Tiroir secret
Philippe Jolivet · 1 eps
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Le Grand Loustalot · 1 eps
Le Silence de l'épervier
Antoine Carsac · 8 eps
Le Génie du faux
Constantin Escher · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (14)
Ciné regards
Self · 2 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 3 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Né
Self
Inside 'Moonraker'
Self
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Self
Trompe-l'oeil
Self (voice)
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Self
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self
The Visit
Self
