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