Michael Lonsdale
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1931
- Died
- September 21, 2020 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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
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Filmography
The Life of Mirrors
Movie
African Glory
Movie · as Christopher Columbus
The Outsider
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
So Long Michael
Movie · as Himself
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie · as Self
Degas and I
Movie · as Edgar Degas
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Movie · as Narrator
Bazin's Film
Movie · as Narrator
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Movie · as Self
The First, the Last
Movie · as Jean-Berchmans
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Movie · as Daniel
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Movie · as Self
Sculpt
Movie
The Visit
Movie · as Self
Maestro
Movie · as Cedric Rovère
N: The Madness Of Reason
Movie · as Narrator
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
Movie · as (voice)
Rosenn
Movie · as (voice)
Le Renard jaune
Movie · as Jean Virno
Marguerite Yourcenar: Alchimie du paysage
Movie
Gebo and the Shadow
Movie · as Gebo
Titeuf
Movie · as Le psy (voice)
Free Men
Movie · as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
The Cardboard Village
Movie · as Old Priest
Hitler in Hollywood
Movie · as Michael Lonsdale
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Movie · as Narrateur
Of Gods and Men
Movie · as Luc
Le Fauteuil hanté
Movie · as Le Grand Loustalot
Agora
Movie · as Theon
You'll Miss Me
Movie · as Max
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
TV · as Le Grand Loustalot · 1 ep
Les amants cinéma
Movie · as Self
The Man from London
Movie · as Kocsmáros (voice)
Le Silence de l'épervier
TV · as Antoine Carsac · 8 eps
The Last Mistress
Movie · as le vicomte Prony
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Movie · as Bartleby (voice)
Heartbeat Detector
Movie · as Mathias Jüst
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie · as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Jeanne, à petits pas
Movie · as Louis
Goya's Ghosts
Movie · as Inquisitor General
Les Mains d'Andréa
Movie
Munich
Movie · as Papa
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Movie · as Professor Stangerson
Invisible
Movie · as Le gardien
Gentille
Movie · as Jean
Bye Bye Blackbird
Movie · as Robert
The Separation
Movie · as Paul Doumer
Five Times Two
Movie · as Bernard
Under a False Name
Movie · as David
Adieu
Movie · as Serge
Le Furet
Movie · as Don Salvadore
Kaena: The Prophecy
Movie · as Opaz (voice)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Movie · as Stangerson
Le Mythe Cathare
Movie · as Narrator
Those Facing Us
Movie · as Mikaël
Actors
Movie · as Man walking down the street
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Movie · as Self
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Inside 'Moonraker'
Movie · as Self
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie · as Self
A Monkey's Tale
Movie · as Maître Flavius (Voice)
Ronin
Movie · as Jean-Pierre
Let There Be Light!
Movie · as Monseigneur Loublié
Don Juan
Movie · as Don Luis
Mauvais Genre
Movie · as Honoré de Balzac
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Movie · as (voice)
Noise of Love and War
Movie · as The director
La Plante Humaine
Movie · as Michel
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Movie · as Dollabella
Jefferson in Paris
Movie · as Louis XVI
Vroum-vroum
Movie
Dieu sait quoi
Movie · as Narrator
Woyzeck
Movie · as Le capitaine
The Remains of the Day
Movie · as Dupont D'Ivry
L'ordre du jour
Movie · as Stark
My Life Is Hell
Movie · as Gabriel
Maigret
TV · as Guillaume Serre, Sir Lampson · 1 ep
Film sur Georges Perec
Movie · as Self
Out 1
Movie · as Thomas
Un cane sciolto
TV · as Procuratore · 2 eps
Souvenir
Movie · as Xavier Lorion
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Movie · as Self
Earthen Man
Movie · as (voice)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Movie · as Cammerschulze
Der Madonna-Mann
Movie · as Tanzmann
The Name of the Rose
Movie · as The Abbot
L'air d'aimer
Movie · as Raymond
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Movie · as Self
Rendez-vous manqués
Movie · as Moralès
Emile Reynaud
Movie · as Narrator
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Movie · as Narrator
Le Tiroir secret
TV · as Philippe Jolivet · 1 ep
The Holcroft Covenant
Movie · as Ernst Manfredi
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Movie · as Antonie
Billy Ze Kick
Movie · as Commissaire Bellanger
Le Génie du faux
TV · as Constantin Escher · 4 eps
Good King Dagobert
Movie · as Saint Eloi
The Judge
Movie · as Le docteur
The Colour of Words
Movie · as Self
Erendira
Movie · as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Chronopolis
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Une jeunesse
Movie · as Béjardy
The Boulugres
Movie · as Le roi (voice)
La Rényon lontan
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Enigma
Movie · as Bodley
Sweet Inquest on Violence
Movie · as Ash, the financier
Trompe-l'oeil
Movie · as Self (voice)
Mersonne ne m'aime
Movie · as Commissioner Bancau
Le rose et le blanc
Movie · as Léon
Smiley's People
TV · as Anton Grigoriev · 2 eps
The Bunker
Movie · as Martin Bormann
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie · as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Alone
Movie · as Ludovic
Un paquebot dans la tête
Movie · as Roland Gougean-Roland
Jean-Sans-Terre
Movie · as Jean Papeuil
Moonraker
Movie · as Hugo Drax
The Passage
Movie · as Renoudot
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Movie
The Left-Handed Woman
Movie · as The Waiter
The Risk of Living
Movie · as narrator
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 2 eps
A Dirty Story
Movie · as The voyeur
The Accuser
Movie · as Abéraud
The Devil in the Box
Movie · as Georges Aubert
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
Movie
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
Movie · as Boris
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Movie · as The Vice Consul of Lahore
Mr. Klein
Movie · as Pierre
Cygne II
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Scrambled Eggs
Movie · as The President of the Republic
Bartleby
Movie · as L'Huissier
Les Écrans déchirés
Movie · as Michael
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie · as Swan
Aloïse
Movie · as le médecin
The Track
Movie · as David Sutter
India Song
Movie · as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Special Section
Movie · as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
The Pink Telephone
Movie · as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Galileo
Movie · as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Mad Enough to Kill
Movie · as Stephane Mostri
Né
Movie · as Self
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Movie · as Le peintre
Serious as Pleasure
Movie · as Inspecteur Fournier
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Phantom of Liberty
Movie · as Hatter
Right to the city
Movie · as Narrator
The Suspects
Movie · as Judge Souftries
Stavisky...
Movie · as Docteur Mézy
No Pockets in a Shroud
Movie · as Raymond
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Movie · as The Judge
Caravan to Vaccarès
Movie · as Duc de Croyter
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Movie · as Narrator
La Grande Paulette
Movie · as Paul
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Movie · as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
TV · as Smith · 1 ep
Malaventure
TV · as Georges Mortier · 6 eps
The Day of the Jackal
Movie · as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
The Girl with the Cello
Movie · as Philippe Lariel
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Movie · as Stéphane
Out 1: Spectre
Movie · as Thomas
The Old Maid
Movie · as Monod
There Once Was a Cop
Movie · as Commissioner Lucas
Les Années Lumière
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Autumn
Movie · as Julien, le réalisateur
Chut !
Movie · as Sergel
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Law Breakers
Movie · as Inspector Bertrand
Murmur of the Heart
Movie · as Father Henri
Spring
Movie · as L'homme qui fuit
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Movie · as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Jaune, Le Soleil
Movie · as Un juif
Out 1
TV · as Thomas · 8 eps
Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Un troisième
Movie · as Le réalisateur
Le revolver et la rose
Movie · as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
The Stud
Movie · as Commissioner Donald Both
La Fenêtre
Movie · as Bracquemont
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
TV · as Socrates · 1 ep
Hibernatus
Movie · as Edouard Loriebat
Destroy, She Said
Movie · as Stein
The Nail Clippers
Movie · as Le mari
Winter
Movie · as Julien & Marc
Stolen Kisses
Movie · as Georges Tabard
The Bride Wore Black
Movie · as Morane
The Man in the Buick
Movie · as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
The Big Wash
Movie · as Delaroche
Concerto for an Exile
Movie · as Un acteur au théâtre
Zoo Story
Movie · as Peter
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
Movie · as L'Avocat de la Défense
Order of the Daisy
Movie · as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Judoka-Secret Agent
Movie · as Thomas Perkins
Your Money or Your Life
Movie · as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Is Paris Burning?
Movie · as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Comédie
Movie · as L'homme (M)
The Buddies
Movie · as Lamendin
Hail! Mafia
Movie · as Hyman
The Ghostly Rental
Movie · as Kernan
Le Petit Nicolas
Movie · as The father
The Little Misses
Movie · as L'elève
Jaloux comme un tigre
Movie · as The grimacing motorist
Behold a Pale Horse
Movie · as Reporter
Adorable Liar
Movie · as Albert
Snobs!
Movie · as Charles Dufaut
Crime Does Not Pay
Movie · as Acteur
The Trial
Movie · as Priest
The Immoral Moment
Movie · as Mercier
Le bureau des mariages
Movie
The Door Slams
Movie · as Georges
Les Trois Sœurs
Movie · as Andreï Prodarov
The Itchy Palm
Movie · as Nobert
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Movie
It Happened in Aden
Movie · as Sinclair