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…
Filmography
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The Life of Mirrors
2025
African Glory
2024
The Outsider
2023
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Degas and I
2019
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
Bazin's Film
2017
Sculpt
2016
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
The First, the Last
2016
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
The Visit
2015
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
Maestro
2014
Rosenn
2014
Le Renard jaune
2013
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
The Cardboard Village
2011
Free Men
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
Titeuf
2011
Of Gods and Men
2010
You'll Miss Me
2009
Agora
2009
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009
Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
Les amants cinéma
Les amants cinéma
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Heartbeat Detector
2007
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
The Last Mistress
2007
Les Mains d'Andréa
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
Goya's Ghosts
2006
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
Munich
2005
Gentille
2005
The Separation
2005
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
Invisible
2005
Under a False Name
2004
Adieu
2004
Five Times Two
2004
Le Furet
2003
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
Those Facing Us
2001
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
Actors
2000
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
A Monkey's Tale
1999
Ronin
1998
Let There Be Light!
1998
Don Juan
1998
Mauvais Genre
1997
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
Noise of Love and War
1997
La Plante Humaine
1996
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
Jefferson in Paris
1995
Vroum-vroum
Vroum-vroum
1995
Dieu sait quoi
1994
The Remains of the Day
1993
Woyzeck
1993
L'ordre du jour
1993
My Life Is Hell
1991
Maigret
1991
Seul face au crime
Seul face au crime
1991
Out 1
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
Souvenir
1989
Earthen Man
1989