Michael Lonsdale
Known for Acting · 207 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 (12)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Maigret
1991
as Guillaume Serre / Sir Lampson
Smiley's People
1982
as Anton Grigoriev
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
as Socrates
Out 1
1971
as Thomas
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
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974
as Smith
Le Génie du faux
1985
as Constantin Escher
Movies (195)
Moonraker
1979
as Hugo Drax
Munich
2005
as Papa
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
The Name of the Rose
1986
as The Abbot
Ronin
1998
as Jean-Pierre
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Dupont D'Ivry
Agora
2009
as Theon
Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Father Henri
The Trial
1962
as Priest
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
as Narrateur
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Hibernatus
1969
as Edouard Loriebat
Enigma
1982
as Bodley
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
as Reporter
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Inquisitor General
Out 1
1990
as Thomas
Stolen Kisses
1968
as Georges Tabard
The Judge
1984
as Le docteur
Erendira
1983
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Louis XVI
Of Gods and Men
2010
as Luc
Chut !
1972
as Sergel
The Accuser
1977
as Abéraud
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as The Hatter
Mr. Klein
1976
as Pierre
Under a False Name
2004
as David
The Passage
1979
as Renoudot
Souvenir
1989
as Xavier Lorion
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
as Self
Five Times Two
2004
as Bernard
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Morane
The Track
1975
as David Sutter
The Bunker
1981
as Martin Bormann
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
as Dollabella
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Swan
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Ernst Manfredi
Law Breakers
1971
as Inspector Bertrand
Né
1975
as Self
Galileo
1975
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
as Opaz (voice)
Concerto for an Exile
1968
as Un acteur au théâtre
Good King Dagobert
1984
as Saint Eloi
Serious as Pleasure
1975
as Inspecteur Fournier
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
as The Judge
Stavisky...
1974
as Docteur Mézy
The Stud
1970
as Commissioner Donald Both
It Happened in Aden
1956
as Sinclair
A Monkey's Tale
1999
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Commissioner Lucas
The Last Mistress
2007
as le vicomte Prony
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
The Suspects
1974
as Judge Souftries
India Song
1975
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
as Michael Lonsdale
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as The Waiter
Mauvais Genre
1997
as Honoré de Balzac
Your Money or Your Life
1966
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
Special Section
1975
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Maestro
2014
as Cedric Rovère
The Devil in the Box
1977
as Georges Aubert
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
as Bartleby (voice)
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
as Stephane Mostri
The Old Maid
1972
as Monod
Sculpt
2016
Out 1: Spectre
1973
as Thomas
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Professor Stangerson
Aloïse
1975
as le médecin
The First, the Last
2016
as Jean-Berchmans
The Man in the Buick
1968
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
The Pink Telephone
1975
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Actors
2000
as Man walking down the street
The Immoral Moment
1962
as Mercier
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Don Juan
1998
as Don Luis
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Acteur
Adorable Liar
1962
as Albert
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
Titeuf
2011
as Le psy (voice)
Order of the Daisy
1967
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Destroy, She Said
1969
as Stein
Snobs!
1962
as Charles Dufaut
Chronopolis
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Une jeunesse
1983
as Béjardy
Free Men
2011
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
The Door Slams
1960
as Georges
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
as (voice)
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
as Gebo
The Big Wash
1968
as Delaroche
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
A Dirty Story
1977
as The voyeur
My Life Is Hell
1991
as Gabriel
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
Le Furet
2003
as Don Salvadore
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
as Duc de Croyter
Hail! Mafia
1965
as Hyman
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
as Andreï Prodarov
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
as Cammerschulze
Let There Be Light!
1998
as Monseigneur Loublié
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
as Self
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Stangerson
Comédie
1966
as L'homme (M)
Alone
1981
as Ludovic
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Raymond
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Scrambled Eggs
1976
as The President of the Republic
Rosenn
2014
as (voice)
The Colour of Words
1984
as Self
Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Commissaire Bellanger
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Old Priest
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Adieu
2004
as Serge
The Little Misses
1964
as L'elève
La Fenêtre
1970
as Bracquemont
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
as Le peintre
The Nail Clippers
1969
as Le mari
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 207 credits spanning from 1956 to 2025, Michael Lonsdale has appeared in 195 films and 12 TV shows.
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Most Popular Michael Lonsdale Movies
- Moonraker (1979) — as Hugo Drax
- Munich (2005) — as Papa
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
- The Name of the Rose (1986) — as The Abbot
- Ronin (1998) — as Jean-Pierre
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