Born in Paris, France — May 24 1931• Died Sep 21 2020

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 s…
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Self

Guillaume Serre

Hugo Drax

Jean-Pierre

Papa

Dupont D'Ivry

Socrates

The Abbot

Theon

Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel

Anton Grigoriev

Thomas

Inquisitor General

Debu-Bridel (uncredited)

Priest

The old blind man (segment "Le Don")

Pierre

Luc

Father Henri

Bodley

Le Vice-Consul de Lahore

Louis XVI

Smith

Renoudot

Docteur Mézy

Martin Bormann

The Hatter

Edouard Loriebat

Man walking down the street

Xavier Lorion

Georges Tabard

Le Grand Loustalot

Ernst Manfredi

Philippe Jolivet

Saint Eloi

Jean-Berchmans

Bernard

Self

Le docteur

Georges

Reporter

Judge Souftries


Opaz (voice)

Dollabella

le vicomte Prony

Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur

Gebo

Cedric Rovère

Swan

Inspecteur Fournier

Hippolyte the brother of Marylène

David Sutter

le médecin

Commissioner Lucas

Don Luis

Lamendin

Bertrand Haines-Pearson

Acteur

Self

Monod

L'Huissier

Duc de Croyter

Senator Onésimo Sanchez

(voice)

Honoré de Balzac


Nobert

L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.

Thomas

M. Morrison, président de la Fielding

Self

Speaker at the shy people's club

Stephane Mostri

Professor Stangerson

Max

Delaroche

The Waiter


Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

Raymond

Maître Flavius (Voice)

Writing

Georges Aubert

Cammerschulze

Robert

Constantin Escher

Michael Lonsdale

Charles Dufaut

Abéraud

David

Commissioner Donald Both

Jean

Un juif

Bracquemont

Serge

Tanzmann
Self

Le capitaine

The grimacing motorist

Commissaire Bellanger

Sergel

Andreï Prodarov

Stangerson

Narrator

L'elève

L'homme qui fuit
Procuratore

The President of the Republic

Jean Virno

Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit

Self

Mercier

Sinclair

Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)

Paul
Self

Le mari

Kernan

The voyeur

Ludovic

Thomas

Don Salvadore

Morane

Inspector Bertrand

Narrator (voice)

Monseigneur Loublié

Albert
Self (archive footage)

Gabriel

Mathias Jüst

Self

Thomas Perkins

Antoine Carsac

Léon

The father

Old Priest
Roland

Self

The Judge

Narrator

Bartleby (voice)

Le roi (voice)
Self

(voice)

Stein

Hyman

Narrator (voice)

Le gardien

Antonie
Michael

Narrator (voice)
Moralès

Le psy (voice)

Commissioner Bancau

narrator

Self

Mikaël

Self

Julien & Marc

Louis

The director
Boris

Stéphane
Jean Papeuil

Paul Doumer

Narrator (Voice)

Béjardy

Julien, le réalisateur

Daniel

L'Avocat de la Défense

(voice)

Self

Raymond

The Vice Consul of Lahore

Le réalisateur

Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate

Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky

Ash, the financier

L'homme (M)
Narrator (voice)

Le peintre

Narrator (voice)

Philippe Lariel


Un acteur au théâtre

(voice)

Narrator

Edgar Degas
Peter

Narrator


Self (voice)

Narrator

Narrator

Michel

Narrator
Self

Narrateur

Stark

Narrator

Narrator

Christopher Columbus