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