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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 24, 1931
Died
September 21, 2020
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Michel Lonsdale
- Майкл Лонсдейл
- Мишель Лонсдаль
- Майкл Лонсдаль
Michael Lonsdale
0.8 Popularity
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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The Life of Mirrors
2025
0.0
Christopher Columbus
African Glory
2024
10.0
Narrator (Voice)
The Outsider
2023
6.0
Self
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
7.5
Edgar Degas
Degas and I
2019
8.7
Narrator
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
7.0
Narrator
Bazin's Film
2017
1.0
Sculpt
2016
6.3
Self
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
10.0
Self
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
Credits
The Life of Mirrors
2025
0.0
African Glory
as Christopher Columbus
2024
0.0
The Outsider
as Narrator (Voice)
2023
10.0
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self
2020
6.0
Degas and I
as Edgar Degas
2019
7.5
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
as Narrator
2019
8.7
Bazin's Film
as Narrator
2017
7.0
Sculpt
2016
1.0
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
as Self
2016
6.3
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
as Self
2016
10.0
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
as Daniel
2016
6.8
The First, the Last
as Jean-Berchmans
2016
6.4
The Visit
as Self
2015
0.0
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
as (voice)
2014
7.0
N: The Madness Of Reason
as Narrator
2014
6.0
Maestro
as Cedric Rovère
2014
6.1
Rosenn
as (voice)
2014
0.0
Le Renard jaune
as Jean Virno
2013
5.5
Gebo and the Shadow
as Gebo
2012
6.7
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
as Narrateur
2011
0.0
The Cardboard Village
as Old Priest
2011
5.7
Free Men
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011
5.6
Hitler in Hollywood
as Michael Lonsdale
2011
6.2
Titeuf
as Le psy (voice)
2011
5.7
Of Gods and Men
as Luc
2010
6.7
You'll Miss Me
as Max
2009
4.2
Agora
as Theon
2009
7.0
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
as Le Grand Loustalot
2009
4.8
Le Silence de l'épervier
as Antoine Carsac
2008
0.0
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Les amants cinéma
as Self
2008
0.0
To Each His Own Cinema
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
2007
6.5
Heartbeat Detector
as Mathias Jüst
2007
5.6
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
as Bartleby (voice)
2007
6.2
The Last Mistress
as le vicomte Prony
2007
5.7
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
0.0
Goya's Ghosts
as Inquisitor General
2006
6.6
Jeanne, à petits pas
as Louis
2006
0.0
Munich
as Papa
2005
7.1
Gentille
as Jean
2005
5.5
The Separation
as Paul Doumer
2005
7.0
Bye Bye Blackbird
as Robert
2005
5.0
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Le professeur Stangerson
2005
6.0
Invisible
as Le gardien
2005
4.4
Under a False Name
as David
2004
5.6
Adieu
as Serge
2004
7.3
Five Times Two
as Bernard
2004
6.4
Le Furet
as Don Salvadore
2003
3.6
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
as Stangerson
2003
6.6
Kaena: The Prophecy
as Opaz (voice)
2003
5.9
Le Mythe Cathare
as Narrator
2002
0.0
Those Facing Us
as Mikaël
2001
3.0
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self
2000
8.0
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
5.9
Inside 'Moonraker'
as Self
2000
6.8
Actors
as Man walking down the street
2000
5.7
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Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
as Narrator (voice)
2000
0.0
A Monkey's Tale
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
1999
6.4
Ronin
as Jean-Pierre
1998
7.0
Let There Be Light!
as Monseigneur Loublié
1998
5.8
Don Juan
as Don Luis
1998
4.4
Mauvais Genre
as Honoré de Balzac
1997
3.2
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
as (voice)
1997
0.0
Noise of Love and War
as The director
1997
7.0
La Plante Humaine
as Michel
1996
7.0
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
as Dollabella
1995
6.9
Jefferson in Paris
as Louis XVI
1995
5.0
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Vroum-vroum
1995
0.0
Dieu sait quoi
as Narrator
1994
6.0
The Remains of the Day
as Dupont D'Ivry
1993
7.4
Woyzeck
as Le capitaine
1993
0.0
L'ordre du jour
as Stark
1993
2.0
My Life Is Hell
as Gabriel
1991
5.8
Maigret
as Guillaume Serre
1991
7.6
Maigret
as Sir Lampson
1991
7.6
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Seul face au crime
as Procuratore
1991
0.0
Out 1
as Thomas
1990
7.2
Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
1990
0.0
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Cela s'appelle l'amour
as Self
1989
5.0
Souvenir
as Xavier Lorion
1989
5.5
Earthen Man
as (voice)
1989
0.0
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as Cammerschulze
1988
6.5
Der Madonna-Mann
as Tanzmann
1987
0.0
Le Tiroir secret
as Philippe Jolivet
1986
3.0
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
as Self
1986
6.5
The Name of the Rose
as The Abbot
1986
7.5
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Rendez-vous manqués
as Moralès
1986
0.0
L'air d'aimer
as Raymond
1986
0.0
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
as Narrator
1986
0.0
Emile Reynaud
as Narrator
1986
0.0
Billy Ze Kick
as Commissaire Bellanger
1985
4.8
Le Génie du faux
as Constantin Escher
1985
0.0
The Insomniac on the Bridge
as Antonie
1985
6.0
The Holcroft Covenant
as Ernst Manfredi
1985
5.5
Good King Dagobert
as Saint Eloi
1984
4.1
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The Colour of Words
as Self
1984
0.0
The Judge
as Le docteur
1984
6.5
Chronopolis
as Narrator (voice)
1983
5.8
Une jeunesse
as Béjardy
1983
0.0
Erendira
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1983
5.9
The Boulugres
as Le roi (voice)
1983
0.0
La Rényon lontan
as Narrator (voice)
1983
0.0
Enigma
as Bodley
1982
5.5
Smiley's People
as Anton Grigoriev
1982
7.7
Mersonne ne m'aime
as Commissioner Bancau
1982
0.0
Sweet Inquest on Violence
as Ash, the financier
1982
5.6
Le rose et le blanc
as Léon
1982
0.0
Trompe-l'oeil
as Self (voice)
1982
0.0
Alone
as Ludovic
1981
5.5
The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
1981
2.9
The Bunker
as Martin Bormann
1981
6.2
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Un paquebot dans la tête
as Roland
1981
0.0
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Jean-Sans-Terre
as Jean Papeuil
1980
0.0
Moonraker
as Hugo Drax
1979
6.2
The Passage
as Renoudot
1979
6.1
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Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
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The Left-Handed Woman
as The Waiter
1978
6.6
The Risk of Living
as narrator
1978
6.0
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
5.5
A Dirty Story
as The voyeur
1977
6.4
The Accuser
as Abéraud
1977
5.7
The Devil in the Box
as Georges Aubert
1977
4.5
Bartleby
as L'Huissier
1976
6.6
Mr. Klein
as Pierre
1976
7.2
Cygne II
as Narrator (voice)
1976
6.0
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
1976
7.0
Scrambled Eggs
as The President of the Republic
1976
4.0
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Les Écrans déchirés
as Michael
1976
0.0
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La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
as Boris
1976
0.0
Né
as Self
1975
10.0
The Pink Telephone
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
1975
4.5
Mad Enough to Kill
as Stephane Mostri
1975
6.7
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Swan
1975
5.4
India Song
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
1975
6.4
The Track
as David Sutter
1975
6.8
Special Section
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
1975
7.1
A Whale That Had a Toothache
as Le peintre
1975
5.0
Aloïse
as le médecin
1975
5.6
Galileo
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
1975
5.9
Serious as Pleasure
as Inspecteur Fournier
1975
3.4
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
as Smith
1974
0.0
The Suspects
as Judge Souftries
1974
5.2
No Pockets in a Shroud
as Raymond
1974
5.2
The Phantom of Liberty
as The Hatter
1974
7.4
Caravan to Vaccarès
as Duc de Croyter
1974
5.1
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
1974
4.9
Stavisky...
as Docteur Mézy
1974
5.9
La grande Paulette
as Paul
1974
0.0
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The Judge
1974
6.0
Right to the city
as Narrator
1974
0.0
Film sur Hans Bellmer
as Narrator
1974
6.0
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Stéphane
1973
3.8
The Girl with the Cello
as Philippe Lariel
1973
0.0
Out 1: Spectre
as Thomas
1973
6.6
The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
1973
7.5
Autumn
as Julien, le réalisateur
1972
7.4
Chut !
as Sergel
1972
0.0
Les années Lumière
as Narrator (voice)
1972
0.0
There Once Was a Cop
as Commissioner Lucas
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
The Old Maid
as Monod
1972
5.8
Spring
as L'homme qui fuit
1971
6.3
Out 1
as Thomas
1971
10.0
Law Breakers
as Inspector Bertrand
1971
5.5
Murmur of the Heart
as Father Henri
1971
7.0
Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
1971
4.1
Jaune, Le Soleil
as Un juif
1971
4.6
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Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
Le revolver et la rose
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
1970
0.0
Un troisième
as Le réalisateur
1970
0.0
La Fenêtre
as Bracquemont
1970
0.0
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
as Socrates
1970
0.0
The Stud
as Commissioner Donald Both
1970
4.7
Winter
as Julien & Marc
1969
7.5
Destroy, She Said
as Stein
1969
6.8
Hibernatus
as Edouard Loriebat
1969
6.7
The Nail Clippers
as Le mari
1969
6.2
The Big Wash
as Delaroche
1968
5.9
Stolen Kisses
as Georges Tabard
1968
7.3
The Bride Wore Black
as Morane
1968
7.1
The Man in the Buick
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
1968
6.3
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Zoo Story
as Peter
1968
0.0
Concerto for an Exile
as Un acteur au théâtre
1968
5.6
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
as L'Avocat de la Défense
1967
7.0
Judoka-Secret Agent
as Thomas Perkins
1967
0.0
Order of the Daisy
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
1967
6.3
Is Paris Burning?
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
1966
7.2
Your Money or Your Life
as Speaker at the shy people's club
1966
5.9
Comédie
as L'homme (M)
1966
8.5
Hail! Mafia
as Hyman
1965
7.0
The Ghostly Rental
as Kernan
1965
7.1
The Buddies
as Lamendin
1965
5.1
Behold a Pale Horse
as Reporter
1964
5.9
The Little Misses
as L'elève
1964
0.0
Jaloux comme un tigre
as The grimacing motorist
1964
2.0
Le petit Nicolas
as The father
1964
0.0
Snobs!
as Charles Dufaut
1962
5.7
The Trial
as Priest
1962
7.4
The Immoral Moment
as Mercier
1962
4.8
Crime Does Not Pay
as Acteur
1962
5.1
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Le bureau des mariages
1962
0.0
Adorable Liar
as Albert
1962
5.2
The Door Slams
as Georges
1960
0.0
The Itchy Palm
as Nobert
1960
6.0
Les Trois Sœurs
as Andreï Prodarov
1960
0.0
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
5.2
It Happened in Aden
as Sinclair
1956
6.0