Michael Lonsdale
Acting
Born May 24, 1931 · 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. 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.
Films (195)
The Life of Mirrors
2025
African Glory
2024
The Outsider
2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Degas and I
2019
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
Bazin's Film
2017
Sculpt
2016
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
The First, the Last
2016
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
The Visit
2015
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
Maestro
2014
Rosenn
2014
Le Renard jaune
2013
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
The Cardboard Village
2011
Free Men
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
Titeuf
2011
Of Gods and Men
2010
You'll Miss Me
2009
Agora
2009
Les amants cinéma
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Heartbeat Detector
2007
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
The Last Mistress
2007
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
Goya's Ghosts
2006
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
Munich
2005
Gentille
2005
The Separation
2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
Invisible
2005
Under a False Name
2004
Adieu
2004
Five Times Two
2004
Le Furet
2003
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
Those Facing Us
2001
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
Actors
2000
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
A Monkey's Tale
1999
Ronin
1998
Let There Be Light!
1998
Don Juan
1998
Mauvais Genre
1997
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
Noise of Love and War
1997
La Plante Humaine
1996
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
Jefferson in Paris
1995
Vroum-vroum
1995
Dieu sait quoi
1994
The Remains of the Day
1993
Woyzeck
1993
L'ordre du jour
1993
My Life Is Hell
1991
Seul face au crime
1991
Out 1
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
Souvenir
1989
Earthen Man
1989
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
Der Madonna-Mann
1987
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
The Name of the Rose
1986
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
L'air d'aimer
1986
Emile Reynaud
1986
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
Billy Ze Kick
1985
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
Good King Dagobert
1984
The Colour of Words
1984
The Judge
1984
Chronopolis
1983
Une jeunesse
1983
Erendira
1983
The Boulugres
1983
La Rényon lontan
1983
Enigma
1982
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
Le rose et le blanc
1982
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
Alone
1981
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
The Bunker
1981
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980
Moonraker
1979
The Passage
1979
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
The Risk of Living
1978
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
A Dirty Story
1977
The Accuser
1977
The Devil in the Box
1977
Bartleby
1976
Mr. Klein
1976
Cygne II
1976
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976
Scrambled Eggs
1976
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976
Les Écrans déchirés
1976
Né
1975
The Pink Telephone
1975
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
India Song
1975
The Track
1975
Special Section
1975
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
Aloïse
1975
Galileo
1975
Serious as Pleasure
1975
The Suspects
1974
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974
Stavisky...
1974
La Grande Paulette
1974
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
Right to the city
1974
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
The Girl with the Cello
1973
Out 1: Spectre
1973
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Autumn
1972
Chut !
1972
Les années Lumière
1972
There Once Was a Cop
1972
The Old Maid
1972
Spring
1971
Law Breakers
1971
Murmur of the Heart
1971
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
Le revolver et la rose
1970
Un troisième
1970
La Fenêtre
1970
The Stud
1970
Winter
1969
Destroy, She Said
1969
Hibernatus
1969
The Nail Clippers
1969
The Big Wash
1968
Stolen Kisses
1968
The Bride Wore Black
1968
The Man in the Buick
1968
Zoo Story
1968
Concerto for an Exile
1968
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967
Order of the Daisy
1967
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Your Money or Your Life
1966
Comédie
1966
Hail! Mafia
1965
The Ghostly Rental
1965
The Buddies
1965
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
The Little Misses
1964
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
Le Petit Nicolas
1964
Snobs!
1962
The Trial
1962
The Immoral Moment
1962
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
Le bureau des mariages
1962
Adorable Liar
1962
The Door Slams
1960
The Itchy Palm
1960
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
It Happened in Aden
1956