Michael Lonsdale
Born in Paris, France — May 24 1931• Died Sep 21 2020
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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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Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Maigret
Guillaume Serre
Moonraker
Hugo Drax
Ronin
Jean-Pierre
Munich
Papa
The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Socrates
The Name of the Rose
The Abbot
Agora
Theon
The Day of the Jackal
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Smiley's People
Anton Grigoriev
Out 1
Thomas
Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
The Trial
Priest
To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Mr. Klein
Pierre
Of Gods and Men
Luc
Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
Enigma
Bodley
India Song
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Smith
The Passage
Renoudot
Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
The Bunker
Martin Bormann
The Phantom of Liberty
The Hatter
Hibernatus
Edouard Loriebat
Actors
Man walking down the street
Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Le Grand Loustalot
The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
Le Tiroir secret
Philippe Jolivet
Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
Five Times Two
Bernard
Inside 'Moonraker'
Self
The Judge
Le docteur
The Door Slams
Georges
Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
The Suspects
Judge Souftries
Sculpt
Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Dollabella
The Last Mistress
le vicomte Prony
Special Section
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
Maestro
Cedric Rovère
The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
Serious as Pleasure
Inspecteur Fournier
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
The Track
David Sutter
Aloïse
le médecin
There Once Was a Cop
Commissioner Lucas
Don Juan
Don Luis
The Buddies
Lamendin
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Crime Does Not Pay
Acteur
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
The Old Maid
Monod
Bartleby
L'Huissier
Caravan to Vaccarès
Duc de Croyter
Erendira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Rosenn
(voice)
Mauvais Genre
Honoré de Balzac
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
The Itchy Palm
Nobert
The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Out 1
Thomas
The Pink Telephone
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self
Your Money or Your Life
Speaker at the shy people's club
Mad Enough to Kill
Stephane Mostri
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Professor Stangerson
You'll Miss Me
Max
The Big Wash
Delaroche
The Left-Handed Woman
The Waiter
The Life of Mirrors
Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond
A Monkey's Tale
Maître Flavius (Voice)
Mora
Writing
The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Cammerschulze
Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
Le Génie du faux
Constantin Escher
Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
Snobs!
Charles Dufaut
The Accuser
Abéraud
Under a False Name
David
The Stud
Commissioner Donald Both
Gentille
Jean
Jaune, Le Soleil
Un juif
La Fenêtre
Bracquemont
Adieu
Serge
Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
Woyzeck
Le capitaine
Jaloux comme un tigre
The grimacing motorist
Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
Chut !
Sergel
Les Trois Sœurs
Andreï Prodarov
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Narrator
The Little Misses
L'elève
Spring
L'homme qui fuit
Seul face au crime
Procuratore
Scrambled Eggs
The President of the Republic
Le Renard jaune
Jean Virno
Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
The Immoral Moment
Mercier
It Happened in Aden
Sinclair
Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
La Grande Paulette
Paul
The Colour of Words
Self
The Nail Clippers
Le mari
The Ghostly Rental
Kernan
A Dirty Story
The voyeur
Alone
Ludovic
Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
Le Furet
Don Salvadore
The Bride Wore Black
Morane
Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand
Cygne II
Narrator (voice)
Let There Be Light!
Monseigneur Loublié
Adorable Liar
Albert
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins
Le Silence de l'épervier
Antoine Carsac
Le rose et le blanc
Léon
Le Petit Nicolas
The father
The Cardboard Village
Old Priest
Un paquebot dans la tête
Roland
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Self
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Narrator
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Bartleby (voice)
Vroum-vroum
The Boulugres
Le roi (voice)
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Self
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
(voice)
Destroy, She Said
Stein
Hail! Mafia
Hyman
La Rényon lontan
Narrator (voice)
Invisible
Le gardien
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antonie
Les Écrans déchirés
Michael
Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
Rendez-vous manqués
Moralès
Titeuf
Le psy (voice)
Mersonne ne m'aime
Commissioner Bancau
The Risk of Living
narrator
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Self
Those Facing Us
Mikaël
Né
Self
Winter
Julien & Marc
Jeanne, à petits pas
Louis
Noise of Love and War
The director
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
Boris
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Stéphane
Jean-Sans-Terre
Jean Papeuil
The Separation
Paul Doumer
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
The Outsider
Narrator (Voice)
Une jeunesse
Béjardy
Autumn
Julien, le réalisateur
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Daniel
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
L'Avocat de la Défense
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
(voice)
The Visit
Self
L'air d'aimer
Raymond
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The Vice Consul of Lahore
Un troisième
Le réalisateur
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, the financier
Comédie
L'homme (M)
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Narrator (voice)
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
Les Années Lumière
Narrator (voice)
Le bureau des mariages
The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
Les Mains d'Andréa
Concerto for an Exile
Un acteur au théâtre
Earthen Man
(voice)
Emile Reynaud
Narrator
Degas and I
Edgar Degas
Zoo Story
Peter
N: The Madness Of Reason
Narrator
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
Trompe-l'oeil
Self (voice)
Dieu sait quoi
Narrator
Bazin's Film
Narrator
La Plante Humaine
Michel
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Narrator
Les amants cinéma
Self
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Narrateur
L'ordre du jour
Stark
Le Mythe Cathare
Narrator
Right to the city
Narrator
African Glory
Christopher Columbus