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
Ronin (1998)
as Jean-Pierre
Agora (2009)
as Theon
Munich (2005)
as Papa
Moonraker (1979)
as Hugo Drax
Actors (2000)
as Man walking down the street
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as Dupont D'Ivry
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Mr. Klein (1976)
as Pierre
Stavisky... (1974)
as Docteur Mézy
Hibernatus (1969)
as Edouard Loriebat
The Separation (2005)
as Paul Doumer
Sculpt (2016)
Actor
A Monkey's Tale (1999)
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
as Father Henri
Of Gods and Men (2010)
as Luc
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
as Inquisitor General
Erendira (1983)
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Five Times Two (2004)
as Bernard
Stolen Kisses (1968)
as Georges Tabard
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)
as Professor Stangerson
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
as Stangerson
The Trial (1962)
as Priest
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Gentille (2005)
as Jean
Adieu (2004)
as Serge
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
as Hatter
Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989)
as Self
Maestro (2014)
as Cedric Rovère
Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
as The Judge
Né (1975)
as Self
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
as Morane
Le Furet (2003)
as Don Salvadore
Inside 'Moonraker' (2000)
as Self
Serious as Pleasure (1975)
as Inspecteur Fournier
The Stud (1970)
as Commissioner Donald Both
The Old Maid (1972)
as Monod
Mauvais Genre (1997)
as Honoré de Balzac
Hitler in Hollywood (2011)
as Michael Lonsdale
Mad Enough to Kill (1975)
as Stephane Mostri
The Last Mistress (2007)
as le vicomte Prony
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
as Reporter
Spring (1971)
as L'homme qui fuit
The Girl with the Cello (1973)
as Philippe Lariel
There Once Was a Cop (1972)
as Commissioner Lucas
Free Men (2011)
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
as Opaz (voice)
The Left-Handed Woman (1978)
as The Waiter
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
as Dollabella
The Man in the Buick (1968)
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds (2014)
as (voice)
Rosenn (2014)
as (voice)
Woyzeck (1993)
as Le capitaine
The Nail Clippers (1969)
as Le mari
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
as Louis XVI
The Man from London (2008)
as Kocsmáros (voice)
Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
as Gebo
Alone (1981)
as Ludovic
Jaune, Le Soleil (1971)
as Un juif
The Passage (1979)
as Renoudot
Jaloux comme un tigre (1964)
as The grimacing motorist
Winter (1969)
as Julien & Marc
Bartleby (1976)
as L'Huissier
The Boulugres (1983)
as Le roi (voice)
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
as Swan
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
as Ernst Manfredi
Le Renard jaune (2013)
as Jean Virno
So Long Michael (2021)
as Himself
Enigma (1982)
as Bodley
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Raymond
Special Section (1975)
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Under a False Name (2004)
as David
Degas and I (2019)
as Edgar Degas
India Song (1975)
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Le rose et le blanc (1982)
as Léon
Noise of Love and War (1997)
as The director
The Bunker (1981)
as Martin Bormann
Law Breakers (1971)
as Inspector Bertrand
Galileo (1975)
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Film sur Georges Perec (1990)
as Self
The Judge (1984)
as Le docteur
Le revolver et la rose (1970)
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007)
as Bartleby (voice)
Let There Be Light! (1998)
as Monseigneur Loublié
La Fenêtre (1970)
as Bracquemont
Un paquebot dans la tête (1981)
as Roland Gougean-Roland
Autumn (1972)
as Julien, le réalisateur
Those Facing Us (2001)
as Mikaël
My Life Is Hell (1991)
as Gabriel
Good King Dagobert (1984)
as Saint Eloi
The First, the Last (2016)
as Jean-Berchmans
The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)
as Antonie
The Suspects (1974)
as Judge Souftries
Heartbeat Detector (2007)
as Mathias Jüst
Chronopolis (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Out 1 (1990)
as Thomas
Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982)
as Ash, the financier
La Grande Paulette (1974)
as Paul
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres (2016)
as Self
Titeuf (2011)
as Le psy (voice)
L'air d'aimer (1986)
as Raymond
Billy Ze Kick (1985)
as Commissaire Bellanger
The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981)
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
as Acteur
The Colour of Words (1984)
as Self
Les Trois Sœurs (1960)
as Andreï Prodarov
Les amants cinéma (2008)
as Self
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986)
as Self
Right to the city (1974)
as Narrator
Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971)
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Rendez-vous manqués (1986)
as Moralès
Caravan to Vaccarès (1974)
as Duc de Croyter
Emile Reynaud (1986)
as Narrator
Der Madonna-Mann (1987)
as Tanzmann
L'ordre du jour (1993)
as Stark
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique (2019)
as Narrator
Les Mains d'Andréa (2006)
Actor
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
Cygne II (1976)
as Narrator (voice)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
The Devil in the Box (1977)
as Georges Aubert
Your Money or Your Life (1966)
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
The Ghostly Rental (1965)
as Kernan
Jean-Sans-Terre (1980)
as Jean Papeuil
Vroum-vroum (1995)
Actor
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)
as Cammerschulze
A Dirty Story (1977)
as The voyeur
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020)
as Self
Adorable Liar (1962)
as Albert
Les Écrans déchirés (1976)
as Michael
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge (2016)
as Daniel
The Cardboard Village (2011)
as Old Priest
Judoka-Secret Agent (1967)
as Thomas Perkins
Le bureau des mariages (1962)
Actor
Le Petit Nicolas (1964)
as The father
The Pink Telephone (1975)
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
The Life of Mirrors (2025)
Actor
The Track (1975)
as David Sutter
Don Juan (1998)
as Don Luis
N: The Madness Of Reason (2014)
as Narrator
Concerto for an Exile (1968)
as Un acteur au théâtre
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung (1967)
as L'Avocat de la Défense
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973)
as Stéphane
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000)
as Self
Hail! Mafia (1965)
as Hyman
You'll Miss Me (2009)
as Max
The Buddies (1965)
as Lamendin
Zoo Story (1968)
as Peter
Film sur Hans Bellmer (1974)
as Narrator
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958)
Actor
Une jeunesse (1983)
as Béjardy
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016)
as Self
A Whale That Had a Toothache (1975)
as Le peintre
It Happened in Aden (1956)
as Sinclair
Aloïse (1975)
as le médecin
The Door Slams (1960)
as Georges
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible (1977)
Actor
Destroy, She Said (1969)
as Stein
Jeanne, à petits pas (2006)
as Louis
Mersonne ne m'aime (1982)
as Commissioner Bancau
The Itchy Palm (1960)
as Nobert
The Accuser (1977)
as Abéraud
Out 1: Spectre (1973)
as Thomas
Souvenir (1989)
as Xavier Lorion
Invisible (2005)
as Le gardien
Earthen Man (1989)
as (voice)
Dieu sait quoi (1994)
as Narrator
Bye Bye Blackbird (2005)
as Robert
The Big Wash (1968)
as Delaroche
The Immoral Moment (1962)
as Mercier
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
La Rényon lontan (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
The Risk of Living (1978)
as narrator
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey (1986)
as Narrator
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été (1979)
Actor
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (1974)
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
The Outsider (2023)
as Narrator (Voice)
Bazin's Film (2017)
as Narrator
Snobs! (1962)
as Charles Dufaut
Comédie (1966)
as L'homme (M)
Les Années Lumière (1972)
as Narrator (voice)
Un troisième (1970)
as Le réalisateur
Trompe-l'oeil (1982)
as Self (voice)
La nuit du beau marin peut-être? (1976)
as Boris
Scrambled Eggs (1976)
as The President of the Republic
The Little Misses (1964)
as L'elève
Le Mythe Cathare (2002)
as Narrator
Chut ! (1972)
as Sergel
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997)
as (voice)
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux (2011)
as Narrateur
La Plante Humaine (1996)
as Michel
The Visit (2015)
as Self
African Glory (2024)
as Christopher Columbus
Marguerite Yourcenar: Alchimie du paysage (2013)
Actor
Le Fauteuil hanté (2010)
as Le Grand Loustalot