Michael Lonsdale
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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
Credits
Munich (2005)
as Papa
The Name of the Rose (1986)
as The Abbot
Moonraker (1979)
as Hugo Drax
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as Dupont D'Ivry
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Ronin (1998)
as Jean-Pierre
Stolen Kisses (1968)
as Georges Tabard
Agora (2009)
as Theon
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
as Father Henri
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
as Hatter
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
as Morane
Mr. Klein (1976)
as Pierre
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
as Inquisitor General
Actors (2000)
as Man walking down the street
The Trial (1962)
as Priest
Of Gods and Men (2010)
as Luc
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
as Dollabella
Hibernatus (1969)
as Edouard Loriebat
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
as Louis XVI
Stavisky... (1974)
as Docteur Mézy
A Monkey's Tale (1999)
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
Adieu (2004)
as Serge
Film sur Georges Perec (1990)
as Self
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
as Opaz (voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Five Times Two (2004)
as Bernard
The Passage (1979)
as Renoudot
The Man from London (2008)
as Kocsmáros (voice)
The Bunker (1981)
as Martin Bormann
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)
as Professor Stangerson
Inside 'Moonraker' (2000)
as Self
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
as Ernst Manfredi
Hitler in Hollywood (2011)
as Michael Lonsdale
Erendira (1983)
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
as Reporter
There Once Was a Cop (1972)
as Commissioner Lucas
Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
as The Judge
Né (1975)
as Self
The Last Mistress (2007)
as le vicomte Prony
Emile Reynaud (1986)
as Narrator
Good King Dagobert (1984)
as Saint Eloi
Zoo Story (1968)
as Peter
My Life Is Hell (1991)
as Gabriel
Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
as Gebo
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds (2014)
as (voice)
Spring (1971)
as L'homme qui fuit
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
as Stangerson
Don Juan (1998)
as Don Luis
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
as Swan
Jaloux comme un tigre (1964)
as The grimacing motorist
Enigma (1982)
as Bodley
Special Section (1975)
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Serious as Pleasure (1975)
as Inspecteur Fournier
Woyzeck (1993)
as Le capitaine
Cygne II (1976)
as Narrator (voice)
Under a False Name (2004)
as David
Maestro (2014)
as Cedric Rovère
The First, the Last (2016)
as Jean-Berchmans
Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Sculpt (2016)
Actor
The Stud (1970)
as Commissioner Donald Both
Your Money or Your Life (1966)
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986)
as Self
You'll Miss Me (2009)
as Max
The Man in the Buick (1968)
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Free Men (2011)
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
as Acteur
The Boulugres (1983)
as Le roi (voice)
The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Raymond
The Life of Mirrors (2025)
Actor
India Song (1975)
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000)
as Self
The Cardboard Village (2011)
as Old Priest
Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971)
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
The Left-Handed Woman (1978)
as The Waiter
Autumn (1972)
as Julien, le réalisateur
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958)
Actor
The Old Maid (1972)
as Monod
Mauvais Genre (1997)
as Honoré de Balzac
The Devil in the Box (1977)
as Georges Aubert
Le Furet (2003)
as Don Salvadore
The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)
as Antonie
Winter (1969)
as Julien & Marc
Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989)
as Self
Law Breakers (1971)
as Inspector Bertrand
Le rose et le blanc (1982)
as Léon
Souvenir (1989)
as Xavier Lorion
Out 1 (1990)
as Thomas
Let There Be Light! (1998)
as Monseigneur Loublié
Mersonne ne m'aime (1982)
as Commissioner Bancau
The Buddies (1965)
as Lamendin
The Girl with the Cello (1973)
as Philippe Lariel
The Separation (2005)
as Paul Doumer
Titeuf (2011)
as Le psy (voice)
Bartleby (1976)
as L'Huissier
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)
as Cammerschulze
Le revolver et la rose (1970)
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Chronopolis (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007)
as Bartleby (voice)
Rosenn (2014)
as (voice)
Hail! Mafia (1965)
as Hyman
Galileo (1975)
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Gentille (2005)
as Jean
Un paquebot dans la tête (1981)
as Roland Gougean-Roland
The Suspects (1974)
as Judge Souftries
Aloïse (1975)
as le médecin
Mad Enough to Kill (1975)
as Stephane Mostri
The Nail Clippers (1969)
as Le mari
It Happened in Aden (1956)
as Sinclair
Heartbeat Detector (2007)
as Mathias Jüst
Caravan to Vaccarès (1974)
as Duc de Croyter
Alone (1981)
as Ludovic
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020)
as Self
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973)
as Stéphane
Judoka-Secret Agent (1967)
as Thomas Perkins
Those Facing Us (2001)
as Mikaël
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016)
as Self
A Whale That Had a Toothache (1975)
as Le peintre
Noise of Love and War (1997)
as The director
Le Renard jaune (2013)
as Jean Virno
The Ghostly Rental (1965)
as Kernan
Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
as Robert
La Fenêtre (1970)
as Bracquemont
Right to the city (1974)
as Narrator
Out 1: Spectre (1973)
as Thomas
Degas and I (2019)
as Edgar Degas
The Colour of Words (1984)
as Self
Earthen Man (1989)
as (voice)
The Pink Telephone (1975)
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Scrambled Eggs (1976)
as The President of the Republic
The Track (1975)
as David Sutter
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible (1977)
Actor
Les Écrans déchirés (1976)
as Michael
A Dirty Story (1977)
as The voyeur
Concerto for an Exile (1968)
as Un acteur au théâtre
The Accuser (1977)
as Abéraud
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique (2019)
as Narrator
Le bureau des mariages (1962)
Actor
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres (2016)
as Self
Der Madonna-Mann (1987)
as Tanzmann
Vroum-vroum (1995)
Actor
La Grande Paulette (1974)
as Paul
Film sur Hans Bellmer (1974)
as Narrator
Les amants cinéma (2008)
as Self
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge (2016)
as Daniel
Rendez-vous manqués (1986)
as Moralès
Chut ! (1972)
as Sergel
L'air d'aimer (1986)
as Raymond
Jaune, Le Soleil (1971)
as Un juif
The Risk of Living (1978)
as narrator
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey (1986)
as Narrator
The Immoral Moment (1962)
as Mercier
Les Mains d'Andréa (2006)
Actor
Le Petit Nicolas (1964)
as The father
The Door Slams (1960)
as Georges
Invisible (2005)
as Le gardien
The Big Wash (1968)
as Delaroche
The Judge (1984)
as Le docteur
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997)
as (voice)
L'ordre du jour (1993)
as Stark
Billy Ze Kick (1985)
as Commissaire Bellanger
The Itchy Palm (1960)
as Nobert
Jeanne, à petits pas (2006)
as Louis
La nuit du beau marin peut-être? (1976)
as Boris
Adorable Liar (1962)
as Albert
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (1974)
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été (1979)
Actor
Les Trois Sœurs (1960)
as Andreï Prodarov
Dieu sait quoi (1994)
as Narrator
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung (1967)
as L'Avocat de la Défense
Une jeunesse (1983)
as Béjardy
Snobs! (1962)
as Charles Dufaut
The Outsider (2023)
as Narrator (Voice)
Les Années Lumière (1972)
as Narrator (voice)
Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982)
as Ash, the financier
Un troisième (1970)
as Le réalisateur
Jean-Sans-Terre (1980)
as Jean Papeuil
Comédie (1966)
as L'homme (M)
The Little Misses (1964)
as L'elève
Bazin's Film (2017)
as Narrator
Le Mythe Cathare (2002)
as Narrator
La Plante Humaine (1996)
as Michel
Trompe-l'oeil (1982)
as Self (voice)
Destroy, She Said (1969)
as Stein
N: The Madness Of Reason (2014)
as Narrator
La Rényon lontan (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux (2011)
as Narrateur
The Visit (2015)
as Self
African Glory (2024)
as Christopher Columbus