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Michael Lonsdale
Actor

Michael Lonsdale

4 Movies
4 Credits
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Known For Acting
Known Credits 4
Birthday May 24, 1931 (95 years old)
Place of Birth Paris, France
Also Known As Michel Lonsdale, Майкл ЛонсдСйл, МишСль Π›ΠΎΠ½ΡΠ΄Π°Π»ΡŒ, Майкл Π›ΠΎΠ½ΡΠ΄Π°Π»ΡŒ
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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 (nΓ©e BΓ©raud). 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 CΓ©sar 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 ThéÒtre 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.

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Filmography (210)

The Life of Mirrors 2025
African Glory 2024
The Outsider 2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose 2022
Le FantΓ΄me de Laurent Terzieff 2020
Degas and I 2019
Salvador DalΓ­: GΓ©nie tragi-comique 2019
Bazin's Film 2017
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théÒtres 2016
The First, the Last 2016
Les Filles au Moyen-Γ‚ge 2016
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited 2016
Sculpt 2016
The Visit 2015
Maestro 2014
N: The Madness Of Reason 2014
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds 2014
Rosenn 2014
Le Renard jaune 2013
Gebo and the Shadow 2012
Titeuf 2011
Free Men 2011
The Cardboard Village 2011
Hitler in Hollywood 2011
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journΓ©e monastique Γ  l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux 2011
Of Gods and Men 2010
Agora 2009
You'll Miss Me 2009
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe 2009
Les amants cinΓ©ma 2008
The Man from London 2008
Le Silence de l'Γ©pervier 2008
The Last Mistress 2007
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure 2007
Heartbeat Detector 2007
To Each His Own Cinema 2007
Jeanne, Γ  petits pas 2006
Goya's Ghosts 2006
Les Mains d'AndrΓ©a 2006
Munich 2005
The Perfume of the Lady in Black 2005
Invisible 2005
Gentille 2005
Bye Bye Blackbird 2005
The Separation 2005
Five Times Two 2004
Under a False Name 2004
Adieu 2004
Le Furet 2003
Kaena: The Prophecy 2003
The Mystery of the Yellow Room 2003
Le Mythe Cathare 2002
Those Facing Us 2001
Actors 2000
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète 2000
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein 2000
Inside 'Moonraker' 2000
Speaking of BuΓ±uel 2000
A Monkey's Tale 1999
Ronin 1998
Let There Be Light! 1998
Don Juan 1998
Mauvais Genre 1997
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath 1997
Noise of Love and War 1997
La Plante Humaine 1996
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud 1995 Jefferson in Paris 1995
Vroum-vroum 1995
Dieu sait quoi 1994
Woyzeck 1993
The Remains of the Day 1993
L'ordre du jour 1993
My Life Is Hell 1991
Seul face au crime 1991
Maigret 1991
Film sur Georges Perec 1990
Out 1 1990
Souvenir 1989
Cela s'appelle l'amour 1989
Earthen Man 1989
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober 1988
Der Madonna-Mann 1987
The Name of the Rose 1986
L'air d'aimer 1986
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' 1986
Rendez-vous manquΓ©s 1986
Emile Reynaud 1986
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey 1986
Le Tiroir secret 1986
The Holcroft Covenant 1985
The Insomniac on the Bridge 1985
Billy Ze Kick 1985
Le GΓ©nie du faux 1985
Good King Dagobert 1984
The Judge 1984
The Colour of Words 1984
Erendira 1983
Chronopolis 1983
Une jeunesse 1983
The Boulugres 1983
La RΓ©nyon lontan 1983
Enigma 1982
Sweet Inquest on Violence 1982
Trompe-l'oeil 1982
Mersonne ne m'aime 1982
Le rose et le blanc 1982
Smiley's People 1982
The Bunker 1981
The Games of Countess Dolingen 1981
Alone 1981
Un paquebot dans la tΓͺte 1981
Jean-Sans-Terre 1980
Moonraker 1979
The Passage 1979
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été 1979
The Left-Handed Woman 1978
The Risk of Living 1978
CinΓ© regards 1978
A Dirty Story 1977
The Accuser 1977
The Devil in the Box 1977
Aurais dΓ» faire gaffe... le choc est terrible 1977
La nuit du beau marin peut-Γͺtre? 1976
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta dΓ©sert 1976
Mr. Klein 1976
Cygne II 1976
Scrambled Eggs 1976
Bartleby 1976
Les Γ‰crans dΓ©chirΓ©s 1976
The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
AloΓ―se 1975
The Track 1975
India Song 1975
Special Section 1975
The Pink Telephone 1975
Galileo 1975
Mad Enough to Kill 1975
NΓ© 1975
A Whale That Had a Toothache 1975
Serious as Pleasure 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche 1975
The Phantom of Liberty 1974
Right to the city 1974
The Suspects 1974
Stavisky... 1974
No Pockets in a Shroud 1974
Successive Slidings of Pleasure 1974
Caravan to Vaccarès 1974
Film sur Hans Bellmer 1974
La Grande Paulette 1974
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown 1974
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle 1974
Malaventure 1974
The Day of the Jackal 1973
The Girl with the Cello 1973
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons 1973
Out 1: Spectre 1973
The Old Maid 1972
There Once Was a Cop 1972
Les Années Lumière 1972
Autumn 1972
Chut ! 1972
Le Grand Γ‰chiquier 1972
Law Breakers 1971
Murmur of the Heart 1971
Spring 1971
Papa, the Lil' Boats 1971
Jaune, Le Soleil 1971
Out 1 1971
Samedi soir 1971
Un troisième 1970
Le revolver et la rose 1970
The Stud 1970
La FenΓͺtre 1970
Les Cent Livres des Hommes 1970
Hibernatus 1969
Destroy, She Said 1969
The Nail Clippers 1969
Winter 1969
Stolen Kisses 1968
The Bride Wore Black 1968
The Man in the Buick 1968
The Big Wash 1968
Concerto for an Exile 1968
Zoo Story 1968
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung 1967
Order of the Daisy 1967
Judoka-Secret Agent 1967
Your Money or Your Life 1966
Is Paris Burning? 1966
ComΓ©die 1966
The Buddies 1965
Hail! Mafia 1965
The Ghostly Rental 1965
Le Petit Nicolas 1964
The Little Misses 1964
Jaloux comme un tigre 1964
Behold a Pale Horse 1964
Adorable Liar 1962
Snobs! 1962
Crime Does Not Pay 1962
The Trial 1962
The Immoral Moment 1962
Le bureau des mariages 1962
The Door Slams 1960
Les Trois SΕ“urs 1960
The Itchy Palm 1960
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel 1958
It Happened in Aden 1956
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