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Né
1975
as Self
Michael Lonsdale
Also known as: Michel Lonsdale
Acting
Born:May 24, 1931
Died:September 21, 2020(aged 89)
Birthplace:Paris, France
Nationality:France
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (192 movies)
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Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
as Self
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The Outsider
2023
as Narrator (Voice)
8.7
8.7
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
as Narrator
8.5
8.5
Comédie
1966
as L'homme (M)
7.5
7.5
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
7.5
7.5
Winter
1969
as Julien & Marc
7.5
7.5
Degas and I
2019
as Edgar Degas
7.5
7.5
The Name of the Rose
1986
as The Abbot
7.4
7.4
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as The Hatter
7.4
7.4
Autumn
1972
as Julien, le réalisateur
7.4
7.4
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Dupont D'Ivry
7.3
7.3
Adieu
2004
as Serge
7.3
7.3
Stolen Kisses
1968
as Georges Tabard
7.2
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Mr. Klein
1976
as Pierre
7.2
7.2
Out 1
1990
as Thomas
7.1
7.1
Munich
2005
as Papa
7.1
7.1
Special Section
1975
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
7.1
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The Ghostly Rental
1965
as Kernan
7.1
7.1
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Morane
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The Separation
2005
as Paul Doumer
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The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967
as L'Avocat de la Défense
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Bazin's Film
2017
as Narrator
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Hail! Mafia
1965
as Hyman
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La Plante Humaine
1996
as Michel
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Noise of Love and War
1997
as The director
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
as (voice)
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Agora
2009
as Theon
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Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Father Henri
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Ronin
1998
as Jean-Pierre
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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
as Dollabella
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Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
as Self
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Destroy, She Said
1969
as Stein
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6.8
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
as Daniel
6.7
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The Track
1975
as David Sutter
6.7
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Hibernatus
1969
as Edouard Loriebat
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Mad Enough to Kill
1975
as Stephane Mostri
6.7
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Gebo and the Shadow
2012
as Gebo
6.7
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Of Gods and Men
2010
as Luc
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Out 1: Spectre
1973
as Thomas
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The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as The Waiter
6.6
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Bartleby
1976
as L'Huissier
6.6
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Stangerson
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Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Inquisitor General
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
as Cammerschulze
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
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The Judge
1984
as Le docteur
6.4
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The First, the Last
2016
as Jean-Berchmans
6.4
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Five Times Two
2004
as Bernard
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6.4
A Monkey's Tale
1999
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
6.4
6.4
India Song
1975
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
6.4
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A Dirty Story
1977
as The voyeur
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The Man in the Buick
1968
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
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Spring
1971
as L'homme qui fuit
6.3
6.3
Order of the Daisy
1967
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
6.3
6.3
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
as Self
6.2
6.2
The Bunker
1981
as Martin Bormann
6.2
6.2
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
as Michael Lonsdale
6.2
6.2
The Nail Clippers
1969
as Le mari
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6.2
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
as Bartleby (voice)
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Moonraker
1979
as Hugo Drax
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Maestro
2014
as Cedric Rovère
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The Passage
1979
as Renoudot
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The Risk of Living
1978
as narrator
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Cygne II
1976
as Narrator (voice)
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Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
as Narrator
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It Happened in Aden
1956
as Sinclair
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The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
as Antonie
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self
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N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
as Narrator
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Le professeur Stangerson
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Dieu sait quoi
1994
as Narrator
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The Itchy Palm
1960
as Nobert
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
as The Judge
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There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Commissioner Lucas
5.9
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Behold a Pale Horse
1964
as Reporter
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Your Money or Your Life
1966
as Speaker at the shy people's club
5.9
5.9
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
5.9
5.9
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
as Opaz (voice)
5.9
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Galileo
1975
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
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Stavisky...
1974
as Docteur Mézy
5.9
5.9
Erendira
1983
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
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The Big Wash
1968
as Delaroche
5.8
5.8
The Old Maid
1972
as Monod
5.8
5.8
Titeuf
2011
as Le psy (voice)
5.8
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Chronopolis
1983
as Narrator (voice)
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5.8
Let There Be Light!
1998
as Monseigneur Loublié
5.8
5.8
My Life Is Hell
1991
as Gabriel
5.7
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Actors
2000
as Man walking down the street
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The Last Mistress
2007
as le vicomte Prony
5.7
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The Accuser
1977
as Abéraud
5.7
5.7
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Old Priest
5.7
5.7
Snobs!
1962
as Charles Dufaut
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5.6
Free Men
2011
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
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Aloïse
1975
as le médecin
5.6
5.6
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
as Ash, the financier
5.6
5.6
Heartbeat Detector
2007
as Mathias Jüst
5.6
5.6
Concerto for an Exile
1968
as Un acteur au théâtre
5.6
5.6
Under a False Name
2004
as David
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Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
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5.5
Souvenir
1989
as Xavier Lorion
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Gentille
2005
as Jean
5.5
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Le Renard jaune
2013
as Jean Virno
5.5
5.5
Alone
1981
as Ludovic
5.5
5.5
Enigma
1982
as Bodley
5.5
5.5
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Ernst Manfredi
5.5
5.5
Law Breakers
1971
as Inspector Bertrand
5.4
5.4
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Swan
5.2
5.2
The Suspects
1974
as Judge Souftries
5.2
5.2
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Raymond
5.2
5.2
Adorable Liar
1962
as Albert
5.2
5.2
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
5.2
5.2
The Buddies
1965
as Lamendin
5.1
5.1
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
as Duc de Croyter
5.1
5.1
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Acteur
5.0
5.0
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Louis XVI
5.0
5.0
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
as Self
5.0
5.0
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
as Le peintre
5.0
5.0
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
as Robert
4.9
4.9
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
4.8
4.8
The Immoral Moment
1962
as Mercier
4.8
4.8
Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Commissaire Bellanger
4.7
4.7
The Stud
1970
as Commissioner Donald Both
4.6
4.6
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
as Un juif
4.5
4.5
The Pink Telephone
1975
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
4.5
4.5
The Devil in the Box
1977
as Georges Aubert
4.5
4.5
Mora
1982
Writer
4.4
4.4
Invisible
2005
as Le gardien
4.2
4.2
You'll Miss Me
2009
as Max
4.2
4.2
Don Juan
1998
as Don Luis
4.1
4.1
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
4.1
4.1
Good King Dagobert
1984
as Saint Eloi
4.0
4.0
Scrambled Eggs
1976
as The President of the Republic
3.8
3.8
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
as Stéphane
3.6
3.6
Le Furet
2003
as Don Salvadore
3.4
3.4
Serious as Pleasure
1975
as Inspecteur Fournier
3.0
3.0
Mauvais Genre
1997
as Honoré de Balzac
3.0
3.0
Those Facing Us
2001
as Mikaël
2.9
2.9
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
2.0
2.0
L'ordre du jour
1993
as Stark
2.0
2.0
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
as The grimacing motorist
1.0
1.0
Sculpt
2016
La grande Paulette
1974
as Paul
The Girl with the Cello
1973
as Philippe Lariel
The Colour of Words
1984
as Self
Le rose et le blanc
1982
as Léon
Une jeunesse
1983
as Béjardy
Earthen Man
1989
as (voice)
Vroum-vroum
1995
The Boulugres
1983
as Le roi (voice)
The Door Slams
1960
as Georges
Right to the city
1974
as Narrator
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
as Louis
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
as Andreï Prodarov
Un troisième
1970
as Le réalisateur
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
as (voice)
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
as Moralès
The Visit
2015
as Self
La Fenêtre
1970
as Bracquemont
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
as Commissioner Bancau
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980
as Jean Papeuil
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
as Self
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
as Self
Le revolver et la rose
1970
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Les années Lumière
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Les amants cinéma
2008
as Self
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976
as Boris
Woyzeck
1993
as Le capitaine
Le petit Nicolas
1964
as The father
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
as Self (voice)
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
Les Écrans déchirés
1976
as Michael
African Glory
2024
as Christopher Columbus
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
as Narrator
Le bureau des mariages
1962
The Life of Mirrors
2025
La Rényon lontan
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Zoo Story
1968
as Peter
Emile Reynaud
1986
as Narrator
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
as Roland
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
as Narrator
Rosenn
2014
as (voice)
Seul face au crime
1991
as Procuratore
L'air d'aimer
1986
as Raymond
Chut !
1972
as Sergel
Der Madonna-Mann
1987
as Tanzmann
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
as Narrateur
The Little Misses
1964
as L'elève
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967
as Thomas Perkins
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