
Michael Lonsdale
Acting
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.
TV Shows(12)

Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Le Grand Loustalot
2009

Le Silence de l'épervier
Antoine Carsac
2008

Maigret
Guillaume Serre
1991

Le Tiroir secret
Philippe Jolivet
1986

Le Génie du faux
Constantin Escher
1985

Smiley's People
Anton Grigoriev
1982

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Smith
1974

Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972

Out 1
Thomas
1971
Samedi soir
Self
1971

Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Socrates
1970
Movies(195)

The Life of Mirrors
2025

African Glory
Christopher Columbus
2024

The Outsider
Narrator (Voice)
2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self
2020

Degas and I
Edgar Degas
2019

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Narrator
2019

Bazin's Film
Narrator
2017

Sculpt
2016

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Self
2016

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Self
2016

The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
2016

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Daniel
2016

The Visit
Self
2015

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
(voice)
2014

N: The Madness Of Reason
Narrator
2014

Maestro
Cedric Rovère
2014

Rosenn
(voice)
2014

Le Renard jaune
Jean Virno
2013

Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
2012

Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Narrateur
2011

The Cardboard Village
Old Priest
2011

Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011

Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
2011

Titeuf
Le psy (voice)
2011

Of Gods and Men
Luc
2010

You'll Miss Me
Max
2009

Agora
Theon
2009
Les amants cinéma
Self
2008

To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
2007

Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
2007

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Bartleby (voice)
2007

The Last Mistress
le vicomte Prony
2007

Les Mains d'Andréa
2006

Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
2006

Jeanne, à petits pas
Louis
2006

Munich
Papa
2005

Gentille
Jean
2005

The Separation
Paul Doumer
2005

Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
2005

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Professor Stangerson
2005

Invisible
Le gardien
2005

Under a False Name
David
2004

Adieu
Serge
2004

Five Times Two
Bernard
2004

Le Furet
Don Salvadore
2003

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
2003

Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
2003

Le Mythe Cathare
Narrator
2002

Those Facing Us
Mikaël
2001

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
2000

Speaking of Buñuel
Self
2000

Inside 'Moonraker'
Self
2000

Actors
Man walking down the street
2000
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Narrator (voice)
2000

A Monkey's Tale
Maître Flavius (Voice)
1999

Ronin
Jean-Pierre
1998

Let There Be Light!
Monseigneur Loublié
1998

Don Juan
Don Luis
1998

Mauvais Genre
Honoré de Balzac
1997

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
(voice)
1997

Noise of Love and War
The director
1997

La Plante Humaine
Michel
1996

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Dollabella
1995

Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
1995
Vroum-vroum
1995

Dieu sait quoi
Narrator
1994

The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
1993

Woyzeck
Le capitaine
1993

L'ordre du jour
Stark
1993

My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
1991
Seul face au crime
Procuratore
1991

Out 1
Thomas
1990

Film sur Georges Perec
Self
1990
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Self
1989

Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
1989

Earthen Man
(voice)
1989

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Cammerschulze
1988

Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
1987
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986

The Name of the Rose
The Abbot
1986
Rendez-vous manqués
Moralès
1986

L'air d'aimer
Raymond
1986

Emile Reynaud
Narrator
1986

The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Narrator
1986

Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
1985

The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antonie
1985

The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
1985

Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
1984
The Colour of Words
Self
1984

The Judge
Le docteur
1984

Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
1983

Une jeunesse
Béjardy
1983

Erendira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1983

The Boulugres
Le roi (voice)
1983

La Rényon lontan
Narrator (voice)
1983

Enigma
Bodley
1982

Mersonne ne m'aime
Commissioner Bancau
1982

Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, the financier
1982

Le rose et le blanc
Léon
1982

Trompe-l'oeil
Self (voice)
1982

Alone
Ludovic
1981

The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
1981

The Bunker
Martin Bormann
1981
Un paquebot dans la tête
Roland
1981
Jean-Sans-Terre
Jean Papeuil
1980

Moonraker
Hugo Drax
1979

The Passage
Renoudot
1979
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979

The Left-Handed Woman
The Waiter
1978

The Risk of Living
narrator
1978

Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977

A Dirty Story
The voyeur
1977

The Accuser
Abéraud
1977

The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert
1977

Bartleby
L'Huissier
1976

Mr. Klein
Pierre
1976

Cygne II
Narrator (voice)
1976

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The Vice Consul of Lahore
1976

Scrambled Eggs
The President of the Republic
1976
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
Boris
1976
Les Écrans déchirés
Michael
1976

Né
Self
1975

The Pink Telephone
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
1975

Mad Enough to Kill
Stephane Mostri
1975

The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
1975

India Song
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
1975

The Track
David Sutter
1975

Special Section
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
1975

A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
1975

Aloïse
le médecin
1975

Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
1975

Serious as Pleasure
Inspecteur Fournier
1975

The Suspects
Judge Souftries
1974

No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond
1974

The Phantom of Liberty
The Hatter
1974

Caravan to Vaccarès
Duc de Croyter
1974

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
1974

Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
1974

La Grande Paulette
Paul
1974

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
1974

Right to the city
Narrator
1974

Film sur Hans Bellmer
Narrator
1974

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Stéphane
1973

The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
1973

Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
1973

The Day of the Jackal
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
1973

Autumn
Julien, le réalisateur
1972

Chut !
Sergel
1972

Les Années Lumière
Narrator (voice)
1972

There Once Was a Cop
Commissioner Lucas
1972

The Old Maid
Monod
1972

Spring
L'homme qui fuit
1971

Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand
1971

Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
1971

Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
1971

Jaune, Le Soleil
Un juif
1971

Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
1970

Un troisième
Le réalisateur
1970

La Fenêtre
Bracquemont
1970

The Stud
Commissioner Donald Both
1970

Winter
Julien & Marc
1969

Destroy, She Said
Stein
1969

Hibernatus
Edouard Loriebat
1969

The Nail Clippers
Le mari
1969

The Big Wash
Delaroche
1968

Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard
1968

The Bride Wore Black
Morane
1968

The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
1968
Zoo Story
Peter
1968

Concerto for an Exile
Un acteur au théâtre
1968

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
L'Avocat de la Défense
1967

Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins
1967

Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
1967

Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
1966

Your Money or Your Life
Speaker at the Shy People's Club
1966

Comédie
L'homme (M)
1966

Hail! Mafia
Hyman
1965

The Ghostly Rental
Kernan
1965

The Buddies
Lamendin
1965

Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
1964

The Little Misses
L'elève
1964

Jaloux comme un tigre
The grimacing motorist
1964

Le Petit Nicolas
The father
1964

Snobs!
Charles Dufaut
1962

The Trial
Priest
1962

The Immoral Moment
Mercier
1962

Crime Does Not Pay
Acteur
1962
Le bureau des mariages
1962

Adorable Liar
Albert
1962

The Door Slams
Georges
1960

The Itchy Palm
Nobert
1960

Les Trois Sœurs
Andreï Prodarov
1960

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958

It Happened in Aden
Sinclair
1956