Michael Lonsdale
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.
207 acting credits
Acting · 207
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Samedi soir
1971
Maigret
1991
Ronin
1998
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Moonraker
1979
Munich
2005
The Name of the Rose
1986
Smiley's People
1982
The Remains of the Day
1993
Agora
2009
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
Murmur of the Heart
1971
Seul face au crime
1991
The Trial
1962
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009
Out 1
1971
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Goya's Ghosts
2006
Of Gods and Men
2010
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Hibernatus
1969
Stolen Kisses
1968
The Bride Wore Black
1968
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Jefferson in Paris
1995
Mr. Klein
1976
Enigma
1982
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
The Bunker
1981
The Passage
1979
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
Le Tiroir secret
1986
Souvenir
1989
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
Stavisky...
1974
Under a False Name
2004
The Last Mistress
2007
Special Section
1975
Actors
2000
There Once Was a Cop
1972
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
India Song
1975
Good King Dagobert
1984
The Old Maid
1972
Your Money or Your Life
1966
My Life Is Hell
1991
The Suspects
1974
Don Juan
1998
Galileo
1975
Titeuf
2011
The Track
1975
Erendira
1983
Five Times Two
2004
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Out 1
1990
Serious as Pleasure
1975
Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
Let There Be Light!
1998
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
The Judge
1984
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
A Monkey's Tale
1999
Le Furet
2003
Free Men
2011
Chut !
1972
The Big Wash
1968
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
Law Breakers
1971
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974
The Cardboard Village
2011
Gentille
2005
Maestro
2014
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
The Pink Telephone
1975
The Accuser
1977
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
Mauvais Genre
1997
L'air d'aimer
1986
Sculpt
2016
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
Aloïse
1975
The Man in the Buick
1968
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
Destroy, She Said
1969
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967
Le Génie du faux
1985
The Door Slams
1960
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976
Out 1: Spectre
1973
Snobs!
1962
Chronopolis
1983
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
Adorable Liar
1962
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
The First, the Last
2016
Spring
1971
La Fenêtre
1970
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
The Immoral Moment
1962
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
Adieu
2004
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
The Girl with the Cello
1973
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
Comédie
1966
Degas and I
2019
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
It Happened in Aden
1956
Der Madonna-Mann
1987
Bazin's Film
2017
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
Billy Ze Kick
1985
The Stud
1970
Bartleby
1976
Le Renard jaune
2013
Vroum-vroum
1995
Alone
1981
The Visit
2015
Rosenn
2014
Order of the Daisy
1967
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
A Dirty Story
1977
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
The Nail Clippers
1969
Earthen Man
1989
You'll Miss Me
2009
Les Années Lumière
1972
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
Heartbeat Detector
2007
The Separation
2005
Zoo Story
1968
Né
1975
Scrambled Eggs
1976
Hail! Mafia
1965
Winter
1969
The Buddies
1965
Those Facing Us
2001
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
The Itchy Palm
1960
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
The Ghostly Rental
1965
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
The Devil in the Box
1977
Autumn
1972
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
Concerto for an Exile
1968
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
Une jeunesse
1983
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
The Boulugres
1983
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
The Colour of Words
1984
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
Emile Reynaud
1986
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
Le revolver et la rose
1970
Noise of Love and War
1997
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
The Little Misses
1964
Le rose et le blanc
1982
The Outsider
2023
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
Le bureau des mariages
1962
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
Les amants cinéma
2008
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
Woyzeck
1993
Cygne II
1976
The Risk of Living
1978
Invisible
2005
La Plante Humaine
1996
La Rényon lontan
1983
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980
Le Petit Nicolas
1964
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976
African Glory
2024
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
La Grande Paulette
1974
Un troisième
1970
L'ordre du jour
1993
Dieu sait quoi
1994
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
Right to the city
1974
Les Écrans déchirés
1976