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
Moonraker
Hugo Drax
Munich
Papa
Agora
Theon
The Day of the Jackal
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard
The Phantom of Liberty
Hatter
Hibernatus
Edouard Loriebat
The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Ronin
Jean-Pierre
Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
The Trial
Priest
Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
There Once Was a Cop
Commissioner Lucas
Of Gods and Men
Luc
The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
The Bunker
Martin Bormann
A Monkey's Tale
Maître Flavius (Voice)
The Bride Wore Black
Morane
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Dollabella
Actors
Man walking down the street
Five Times Two
Bernard
The Man from London
Kocsmáros (voice)
The Passage
Renoudot
Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
Mr. Klein
Pierre
The Pink Telephone
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
The Last Mistress
le vicomte Prony
The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Professor Stangerson
To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Enigma
Bodley
The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
Winter
Julien & Marc
Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
The Cardboard Village
Old Priest
Your Money or Your Life
Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Spring
L'homme qui fuit
Under a False Name
David
The Suspects
Judge Souftries
Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand
Don Juan
Don Luis
No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond
Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
Maestro
Cedric Rovère
Titeuf
Le psy (voice)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
(voice)
Invisible
Le gardien
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Hail! Mafia
Hyman
Out 1
Thomas
Let There Be Light!
Monseigneur Loublié
Sculpt
2016
Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
The Separation
Paul Doumer
Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins
Special Section
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
Le Furet
Don Salvadore
Cygne II
Narrator (voice)
India Song
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
The Ghostly Rental
Kernan
The Stud
Commissioner Donald Both
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antonie
Crime Does Not Pay
Acteur
The Big Wash
Delaroche
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
The Old Maid
Monod
The Boulugres
Le roi (voice)
Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
Emile Reynaud
Narrator
Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Bartleby (voice)
Serious as Pleasure
Inspecteur Fournier
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Aloïse
le médecin
Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
Erendira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Bartleby
L'Huissier
La Fenêtre
Bracquemont
Mersonne ne m'aime
Commissioner Bancau
Right to the city
Narrator
The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
(voice)
Caravan to Vaccarès
Duc de Croyter
Autumn
Julien, le réalisateur
Rosenn
(voice)
Adieu
Serge
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
Mauvais Genre
Honoré de Balzac
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Cammerschulze
Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
A Dirty Story
The voyeur
Gentille
Jean
Bazin's Film
Narrator
Degas and I
Edgar Degas
Alone
Ludovic
Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Chut !
Sergel
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Daniel
Jeanne, à petits pas
Louis
Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
The Nail Clippers
Le mari
The Accuser
Abéraud
Jaloux comme un tigre
The grimacing motorist
Jaune, Le Soleil
Un juif
The Track
David Sutter
Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, the financier
Woyzeck
Le capitaine
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The Vice Consul of Lahore
The Outsider
Narrator (Voice)
L'air d'aimer
Raymond
Mad Enough to Kill
Stephane Mostri
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Narrator
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
Dieu sait quoi
Narrator
The Left-Handed Woman
The Waiter
Le rose et le blanc
Léon
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Stéphane
Le Renard jaune
Jean Virno
The Door Slams
Georges
Les Trois Sœurs
Andreï Prodarov
You'll Miss Me
Max
It Happened in Aden
Sinclair
Le Mythe Cathare
Narrator
L'ordre du jour
Stark
The Buddies
Lamendin
Destroy, She Said
Stein
Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
The Judge
Le docteur
Adorable Liar
Albert
Un paquebot dans la tête
Roland Gougean-Roland
Noise of Love and War
The director
The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert
Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
La Grande Paulette
Paul
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Narrator
The Immoral Moment
Mercier
Those Facing Us
Mikaël
The Risk of Living
narrator
Snobs!
Charles Dufaut
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Narrator
Scrambled Eggs
The President of the Republic
Earthen Man
(voice)
The Itchy Palm
Nobert
N: The Madness Of Reason
Narrator
Concerto for an Exile
Un acteur au théâtre
Une jeunesse
Béjardy
Le Petit Nicolas
The father
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Narrateur
Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
L'Avocat de la Défense
La Rényon lontan
Narrator (voice)
Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
The Little Misses
L'elève
Les Années Lumière
Narrator (voice)
Un troisième
Le réalisateur
La Plante Humaine
Michel
Comédie
L'homme (M)
African Glory
Christopher Columbus
TV Shows (11)
Maigret
Guillaume Serre · 1 eps
Maigret
Sir Lampson · 1 eps
Smiley's People
Anton Grigoriev · 2 eps
Out 1
Thomas · 8 eps
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Socrates · 1 eps
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Le Grand Loustalot · 1 eps
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Smith · 1 eps
Le Tiroir secret
Philippe Jolivet · 1 eps
Malaventure
Georges Mortier · 6 eps
Le Silence de l'épervier
Antoine Carsac · 8 eps
Le Génie du faux
Constantin Escher · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (15)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 3 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Ciné regards
Self · 2 eps
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
Inside 'Moonraker'
Self
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
Né
Self
The Visit
Self
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Self
Trompe-l'oeil
Self (voice)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self
So Long Michael
Himself
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Self
