Cast & creator
Michael Lonsdale
Best known for Les Rendez-vous du dimanche, Le Grand Échiquier, Samedi soir
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.
Also known as: Michel Lonsdale, Майкл Лонсдейл, Мишель Лонсдаль, Майкл Лонсдаль
196
film credits
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television credits
211
1956–2025 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (212)
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972Samedi soir
Self
1971
Maigret
Guillaume Serre
1991Maigret
Sir Lampson
1991
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Munich
Papa
2005
The Name of the Rose
The Abbot
1986
Moonraker
Hugo Drax
1979
The Day of the Jackal
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
1973
Smiley's People
Anton Grigoriev
1982
The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
1993
Ronin
Jean-Pierre
1998
Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard
1968
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Socrates
1970
Agora
Theon
2009
Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
1966
Out 1
Thomas
1971
Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
1971
The Phantom of Liberty
Hatter
1974
Hibernatus
Edouard Loriebat
1969
The Trial
Priest
1962
To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
2007
The Bride Wore Black
Morane
1968
Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
2006
Malaventure
Georges Mortier
1974
Actors
Man walking down the street
2000
Mr. Klein
Pierre
1976
Of Gods and Men
Luc
2010
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Le Grand Loustalot
2009
Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
1995
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
Smith
1974
A Monkey's Tale
Maître Flavius (Voice)
1999
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Dollabella
1995
Le Tiroir secret
Philippe Jolivet
1986
The Last Mistress
le vicomte Prony
2007
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Professor Stangerson
2005
Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
1974
The Bunker
Martin Bormann
1981
Adieu
Serge
2004
Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
2003
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022
There Once Was a Cop
Commissioner Lucas
1972
Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
1964
The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
1985
Film sur Georges Perec
Self
1990
The Passage
Renoudot
1979
The Man from London
Kocsmáros (voice)
2008
Le Silence de l'épervier
Antoine Carsac
2008
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
1974
Five Times Two
Bernard
2004
Erendira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1983
Inside 'Moonraker'
Self
2000
Le Génie du faux
Constantin Escher
1985
Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
2011
Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
1984
Serious as Pleasure
Inspecteur Fournier
1975
Né
Self
1975
The Boulugres
Le roi (voice)
1983
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
1981
Crime Does Not Pay
Acteur
1962
Don Juan
Don Luis
1998
India Song
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
1975
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
(voice)
2014
Cygne II
Narrator (voice)
1976
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
2003
Enigma
Bodley
1982
Emile Reynaud
Narrator
1986
Winter
Julien & Marc
1969
Let There Be Light!
Monseigneur Loublié
1998
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
Spring
L'homme qui fuit
1971
The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
2016
Autumn
Julien, le réalisateur
1972
The Separation
Paul Doumer
2005
The Left-Handed Woman
The Waiter
1978
Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
2012
Bartleby
L'Huissier
1976
Maestro
Cedric Rovère
2014
The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
1968
Your Money or Your Life
Speaker at the Shy People's Club
1966
The Stud
Commissioner Donald Both
1970
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Woyzeck
Le capitaine
1993
Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand
1971
Under a False Name
David
2004
Sculpt
2016
No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond
1974
My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
1991
Gentille
Jean
2005
Titeuf
Le psy (voice)
2011
Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
1967
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
2000
Le Furet
Don Salvadore
2003
Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011Cela s'appelle l'amour
Self
1989
The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
1975
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antonie
1985
The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert
1977
Jaloux comme un tigre
The grimacing motorist
1964The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986
The Old Maid
Monod
1972
The Buddies
Lamendin
1965Zoo Story
Peter
1968
It Happened in Aden
Sinclair
1956
Caravan to Vaccarès
Duc de Croyter
1974
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
1971
The Cardboard Village
Old Priest
2011
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
2000
Mauvais Genre
Honoré de Balzac
1997
The Nail Clippers
Le mari
1969
Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
1989
The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
1973
You'll Miss Me
Max
2009
Special Section
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
1975
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Stéphane
1973
Noise of Love and War
The director
1997
Out 1
Thomas
1990
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Bartleby (voice)
2007
The Suspects
Judge Souftries
1974
Le rose et le blanc
Léon
1982
Aloïse
le médecin
1975
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
The Vice Consul of Lahore
1976
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
Self
2016
Mad Enough to Kill
Stephane Mostri
1975
Hail! Mafia
Hyman
1965
Mersonne ne m'aime
Commissioner Bancau
1982
Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
2007
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self
2020
Those Facing Us
Mikaël
2001
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Cammerschulze
1988
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
1975
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Self
2016
Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
1983
Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
1975
Un paquebot dans la tête
Roland Gougean-Roland
1981
Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
1970
La Fenêtre
Bracquemont
1970
Le Renard jaune
Jean Virno
2013
Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
1973
Right to the city
Narrator
1974
Rosenn
(voice)
2014
Earthen Man
(voice)
1989Vroum-vroum
1995The Colour of Words
Self
1984
Mora
Writer
1982Un cane sciolto
Procuratore
1990
Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
2005
Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins
1967
The Track
David Sutter
1975
The Ghostly Rental
Kernan
1965
Degas and I
Edgar Degas
2019
La Grande Paulette
Paul
1974
Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
1987
A Dirty Story
The voyeur
1977
Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
1985
Snobs!
Charles Dufaut
1962Rendez-vous manqués
Moralès
1986
The Itchy Palm
Nobert
1960
Concerto for an Exile
Un acteur au théâtre
1968
The Immoral Moment
Mercier
1962
L'ordre du jour
Stark
1993
Alone
Ludovic
1981
Scrambled Eggs
The President of the Republic
1976
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Narrator
2019
The Risk of Living
narrator
1978
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Narrator
1974Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Narrator (voice)
2000
The Pink Telephone
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
1975
Invisible
Le gardien
2005
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Daniel
2016Les amants cinéma
Self
2008
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Narrator
1986Le bureau des mariages
1962
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
Dieu sait quoi
Narrator
1994
Chut !
Sergel
1972
The Door Slams
Georges
1960
The Big Wash
Delaroche
1968
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
1974
Jeanne, à petits pas
Louis
2006
Le Petit Nicolas
The father
1964
The Little Misses
L'elève
1964
The Accuser
Abéraud
1977
The Outsider
Narrator (Voice)
2023Les Écrans déchirés
Michael
1976
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
L'Avocat de la Défense
1967
The Judge
Le docteur
1984
Adorable Liar
Albert
1962
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
(voice)
1997Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
L'air d'aimer
Raymond
1986
Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, the financier
1982
Jaune, Le Soleil
Un juif
1971
Trompe-l'oeil
Self (voice)
1982
Destroy, She Said
Stein
1969La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
Boris
1976Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979Jean-Sans-Terre
Jean Papeuil
1980
Les Trois Sœurs
Andreï Prodarov
1960
Les Années Lumière
Narrator (voice)
1972
La Rényon lontan
Narrator (voice)
1983
Bazin's Film
Narrator
2017
Une jeunesse
Béjardy
1983
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Narrateur
2011
La Plante Humaine
Michel
1996
Comédie
L'homme (M)
1966
Le Mythe Cathare
Narrator
2002
N: The Madness Of Reason
Narrator
2014
Un troisième
Le réalisateur
1970
The Visit
Self
2015
African Glory
Christopher Columbus
2024