Michael Lonsdale
Known for Acting · 210 credits
- Born
- 1931-05-24
- Died
- 2020-09-21
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Michel Lonsdale · Майкл Лонсдейл · Мишель Лонсдаль · Майкл Лонсдаль
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.
Known For
TV Shows (14)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Maigret
1991
as Guillaume Serre / Sir Lampson
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Smiley's People
1982
as Anton Grigoriev
Out 1
1971
as Thomas
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
as Socrates
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974
as Smith
Malaventure
1974
as Georges Mortier
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009
as Le Grand Loustalot
Le Tiroir secret
1986
as Philippe Jolivet
Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
as Antoine Carsac
Le Génie du faux
1985
as Constantin Escher
Movies (196)
Moonraker
1979
as Hugo Drax
The Name of the Rose
1986
as The Abbot
Munich
2005
as Papa
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
as Michael Lonsdale
Erendira
1983
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Ronin
1998
as Jean-Pierre
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Dupont D'Ivry
Stavisky...
1974
as Docteur Mézy
Agora
2009
as Theon
The Stud
1970
as Commissioner Donald Both
Mr. Klein
1976
as Pierre
Maestro
2014
as Cedric Rovère
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
as Roland Gougean-Roland
Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Father Henri
Sculpt
2016
The Old Maid
1972
as Monod
Actors
2000
as Man walking down the street
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Spring
1971
as L'homme qui fuit
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
as Self
The Girl with the Cello
1973
as Philippe Lariel
Stolen Kisses
1968
as Georges Tabard
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Inquisitor General
The Man in the Buick
1968
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Serious as Pleasure
1975
as Inspecteur Fournier
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as The Waiter
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
as Stephane Mostri
Hibernatus
1969
as Edouard Loriebat
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Morane
Adieu
2004
as Serge
Gentille
2005
as Jean
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Louis XVI
Les Écrans déchirés
1976
as Michael
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Professor Stangerson
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
as The grimacing motorist
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
as Reporter
Right to the city
1974
as Narrator
Of Gods and Men
2010
as Luc
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as The Hatter
Winter
1969
as Julien & Marc
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
as Self
There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Commissioner Lucas
The Trial
1962
as Priest
A Monkey's Tale
1999
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
Rosenn
2014
as (voice)
Free Men
2011
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
The Passage
1979
as Renoudot
The Separation
2005
as Paul Doumer
Le Furet
2003
as Don Salvadore
The Ghostly Rental
1965
as Kernan
Noise of Love and War
1997
as The director
The Nail Clippers
1969
as Le mari
Mauvais Genre
1997
as Honoré de Balzac
Your Money or Your Life
1966
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Under a False Name
2004
as David
Good King Dagobert
1984
as Saint Eloi
India Song
1975
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Special Section
1975
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Les amants cinéma
2008
as Self
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
as Self
Degas and I
2019
as Edgar Degas
Titeuf
2011
as Le psy (voice)
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
as Gebo
Enigma
1982
as Bodley
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
as Daniel
The Boulugres
1983
as Le roi (voice)
Le Renard jaune
2013
as Jean Virno
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Stangerson
Let There Be Light!
1998
as Monseigneur Loublié
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
as Un juif
Don Juan
1998
as Don Luis
Souvenir
1989
as Xavier Lorion
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
as Moralès
Né
1975
as Self
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
as The Judge
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Ernst Manfredi
The Colour of Words
1984
as Self
The Last Mistress
2007
as le vicomte Prony
Adorable Liar
1962
as Albert
L'air d'aimer
1986
as Raymond
Chronopolis
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Acteur
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
as Andreï Prodarov
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Commissaire Bellanger
Bartleby
1976
as L'Huissier
Galileo
1975
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Five Times Two
2004
as Bernard
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
as Ash, the financier
The Man from London
2008
as Kocsmáros (voice)
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
as Opaz (voice)
Concerto for an Exile
1968
as Un acteur au théâtre
Le rose et le blanc
1982
as Léon
The Pink Telephone
1975
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Out 1
1990
as Thomas
The First, the Last
2016
as Jean-Berchmans
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
as Antonie
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
as Narrator
La Grande Paulette
1974
as Paul
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
The Bunker
1981
as Martin Bormann
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
as Narrator
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
as (voice)
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
as Self (voice)
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Raymond
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
as Cammerschulze
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
as Dollabella
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Old Priest
Out 1: Spectre
1973
as Thomas
A Dirty Story
1977
as The voyeur
The Risk of Living
1978
as narrator
Alone
1981
as Ludovic
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967
as L'Avocat de la Défense
Heartbeat Detector
2007
as Mathias Jüst
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Hail! Mafia
1965
as Hyman
About 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… With 210 credits spanning from 1956 to 2025, Michael Lonsdale has appeared in 196 films and 14 TV shows.
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- Moonraker (1979) — as Hugo Drax
- The Name of the Rose (1986) — as The Abbot
- Munich (2005) — as Papa
- Hitler in Hollywood (2011) — as Michael Lonsdale
- Erendira (1983) — as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
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