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