Michael Lonsdale
181 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1931
- Died
- Sep 21, 2020 (age 89)
- 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.
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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.
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Michael Lonsdale: movies and TV shows
Acting (191)
- 2025
- 2024 African Glory
as Christopher Columbus
- 2023 The Outsider
as Narrator (Voice)
- 2019 Degas and I
as Edgar Degas
- 2019 Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
as Narrator
- 2017 Bazin's Film
as Narrator
- 2016
- 2016 The First, the Last
as Jean-Berchmans
- 2016 Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
as Daniel
- 2014 J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
as (voice)
- 2014 N: The Madness Of Reason
as Narrator
- 2014 Maestro
as Cedric Rovère
- 2014 Rosenn
as (voice)
- 2013 Le Renard jaune
as Jean Virno
- 2012 Gebo and the Shadow
as Gebo
- 2011
- 2011 The Cardboard Village
as Old Priest
- 2011 Free Men
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
- 2011 Hitler in Hollywood
as Michael Lonsdale
- 2011 Titeuf
as Le psy (voice)
- 2010 Of Gods and Men
as Luc
- 2009 You'll Miss Me
as Max
- 2009 Agora
as Theon
- 2009
- 2008 The Man from London
as Kocsmáros (voice)
- 2008
- 2007 To Each His Own Cinema
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
- 2007 Heartbeat Detector
as Mathias Jüst
- 2007 Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
as Bartleby (voice)
- 2007 The Last Mistress
as le vicomte Prony
- 2006
- 2006 Goya's Ghosts
as Inquisitor General
- 2006 Jeanne, à petits pas
as Louis
- 2005 Munich
as Papa
- 2005 Gentille
as Jean
- 2005 The Separation
as Paul Doumer
- 2005 Bye Bye Blackbird
as Robert
- 2005 The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Professor Stangerson
- 2005 Invisible
as Le gardien
- 2004 Under a False Name
as David
- 2004 Adieu
as Serge
- 2004 Five Times Two
as Bernard
- 2003 Le Furet
as Don Salvadore
- 2003 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
as Stangerson
- 2003 Kaena: The Prophecy
as Opaz (voice)
- 2002 Le Mythe Cathare
as Narrator
- 2001 Those Facing Us
as Mikaël
- 2000 Actors
as Man walking down the street
- 2000 Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 A Monkey's Tale
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
- 1998 Ronin
as Jean-Pierre
- 1998 Let There Be Light!
as Monseigneur Loublié
- 1998 Don Juan
as Don Luis
- 1997 Mauvais Genre
as Honoré de Balzac
- 1997 Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
as (voice)
- 1997 Noise of Love and War
as The director
- 1996 La Plante Humaine
as Michel
- 1995 Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
as Dollabella
- 1995 Jefferson in Paris
as Louis XVI
- 1995
- 1994 Dieu sait quoi
as Narrator
- 1993 The Remains of the Day
as Dupont D'Ivry
- 1993 Woyzeck
as Le capitaine
- 1993 L'ordre du jour
as Stark
- 1991 My Life Is Hell
as Gabriel
- 1991
- 1990 Out 1
as Thomas
- 1990
- 1989 Souvenir
as Xavier Lorion
- 1989 Earthen Man
as (voice)
- 1988 The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as Cammerschulze
- 1987 Der Madonna-Mann
as Tanzmann
- 1986
- 1986 The Name of the Rose
as The Abbot
- 1986 Rendez-vous manqués
as Moralès
- 1986 L'air d'aimer
as Raymond
- 1986 Emile Reynaud
as Narrator
- 1986 The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
as Narrator
- 1985 Billy Ze Kick
as Commissaire Bellanger
- 1985
- 1985 The Insomniac on the Bridge
as Antonie
- 1985 The Holcroft Covenant
as Ernst Manfredi
- 1984 Good King Dagobert
as Saint Eloi
- 1984 The Judge
as Le docteur
- 1983 Chronopolis
as Narrator (voice)
- 1983 Une jeunesse
as Béjardy
- 1983 Erendira
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
- 1983 The Boulugres
as Le roi (voice)
- 1983 La Rényon lontan
as Narrator (voice)
- 1982 Enigma
as Bodley
- 1982
- 1982 Mersonne ne m'aime
as Commissioner Bancau
- 1982 Sweet Inquest on Violence
as Ash, the financier
- 1982 Le rose et le blanc
as Léon
- 1981 Alone
as Ludovic
- 1981 The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
- 1981 The Bunker
as Martin Bormann
- 1981 Un paquebot dans la tête
as Roland Gougean-Roland
- 1980 Jean-Sans-Terre
as Jean Papeuil
- 1979 Moonraker
as Hugo Drax
- 1979 The Passage
as Renoudot
- 1979
- 1978 The Left-Handed Woman
as The Waiter
- 1978 The Risk of Living
as narrator
- 1977
- 1977 A Dirty Story
as The voyeur
- 1977 The Accuser
as Abéraud
- 1977 The Devil in the Box
as Georges Aubert
- 1976 Bartleby
as L'Huissier
- 1976 Mr. Klein
as Pierre
- 1976 Cygne II
as Narrator (voice)
- 1976 Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
- 1976 Scrambled Eggs
as The President of the Republic
- 1976 La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
as Boris
- 1976 Les Écrans déchirés
as Michael
- 1975 The Pink Telephone
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
- 1975 Mad Enough to Kill
as Stephane Mostri
- 1975 The Romantic Englishwoman
as Swan
- 1975 India Song
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
- 1975 The Track
as David Sutter
- 1975 Special Section
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
- 1975 A Whale That Had a Toothache
as Le peintre
- 1975 Aloïse
as le médecin
- 1975 Galileo
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
- 1975 Serious as Pleasure
as Inspecteur Fournier
- 1974
- 1974 The Suspects
as Judge Souftries
- 1974 No Pockets in a Shroud
as Raymond
- 1974 The Phantom of Liberty
as Hatter
- 1974
- 1974 Caravan to Vaccarès
as Duc de Croyter
- 1974 The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
- 1974 Stavisky...
as Docteur Mézy
- 1974 La Grande Paulette
as Paul
- 1974 Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The Judge
- 1974 Right to the city
as Narrator
- 1974 Film sur Hans Bellmer
as Narrator
- 1973 Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Stéphane
- 1973 The Girl with the Cello
as Philippe Lariel
- 1973 Out 1: Spectre
as Thomas
- 1973 The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- 1972 Autumn
as Julien, le réalisateur
- 1972 Chut !
as Sergel
- 1972 Les Années Lumière
as Narrator (voice)
- 1972 There Once Was a Cop
as Commissioner Lucas
- 1972 The Old Maid
as Monod
- 1971 Spring
as L'homme qui fuit
- 1971
- 1971 Law Breakers
as Inspector Bertrand
- 1971 Murmur of the Heart
as Father Henri
- 1971 Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
- 1971 Jaune, Le Soleil
as Un juif
- 1970 Le revolver et la rose
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
- 1970 Un troisième
as Le réalisateur
- 1970 La Fenêtre
as Bracquemont
- 1970
- 1970 The Stud
as Commissioner Donald Both
- 1969 Winter
as Julien & Marc
- 1969 Destroy, She Said
as Stein
- 1969 Hibernatus
as Edouard Loriebat
- 1969 The Nail Clippers
as Le mari
- 1968 The Big Wash
as Delaroche
- 1968 Stolen Kisses
as Georges Tabard
- 1968 The Bride Wore Black
as Morane
- 1968 The Man in the Buick
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
- 1968 Zoo Story
as Peter
- 1968 Concerto for an Exile
as Un acteur au théâtre
- 1967 The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
as L'Avocat de la Défense
- 1967 Judoka-Secret Agent
as Thomas Perkins
- 1967 Order of the Daisy
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
- 1966 Is Paris Burning?
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
- 1966 Your Money or Your Life
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
- 1966 Comédie
as L'homme (M)
- 1965 Hail! Mafia
as Hyman
- 1965 The Ghostly Rental
as Kernan
- 1965 The Buddies
as Lamendin
- 1964 Behold a Pale Horse
as Reporter
- 1964 The Little Misses
as L'elève
- 1964 Jaloux comme un tigre
as The grimacing motorist
- 1964 Le Petit Nicolas
as The father
- 1962 Snobs!
as Charles Dufaut
- 1962 The Trial
as Priest
- 1962 The Immoral Moment
as Mercier
- 1962 Crime Does Not Pay
as Acteur
- 1962
- 1962 Adorable Liar
as Albert
- 1960 The Door Slams
as Georges
- 1960 The Itchy Palm
as Nobert
- 1960 Les Trois Sœurs
as Andreï Prodarov
- 1958
- 1956 It Happened in Aden
as Sinclair
Behind the camera (1)
- 1982 Mora
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (20)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 2008
- 2000
- 2000
- 2000
- 1990
- 1989
- 1986
- 1984
- 1982
- 1978 Ciné regards
2 episodes
- 1975
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
3 episodes
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier
1 episode
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode