
Michael Lonsdale
Biography
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.
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Acting (178 movies)

The Name of the Rose
1986

Stolen Kisses
1968

Munich
2005

Moonraker
1979

Film sur Georges Perec
1990

Hibernatus
1969

The Last Mistress
2007

The Bride Wore Black
1968

My Life Is Hell
1991

Enigma
1982

Law Breakers
1971

The Door Slams
1960

The Day of the Jackal
1973

The Old Maid
1972

Five Times Two
2004

The Phantom of Liberty
1974

It Happened in Aden
1956

Ronin
1998

Right to the city
1974

Agora
2009

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995

The Suspects
1974

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007

The Bunker
1981

The Romantic Englishwoman
1975

Murmur of the Heart
1971

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005

Heartbeat Detector
2007

Stavisky...
1974

Titeuf
2011

Good King Dagobert
1984

Aloïse
1975

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

Under a False Name
2004

Of Gods and Men
2010

Invisible
2005

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976

Destroy, She Said
1969

Actors
2000

Woyzeck
1993

Le Furet
2003

The Passage
1979

Un troisième
1970

Les Trois Sœurs
1960

There Once Was a Cop
1972

Adorable Liar
1962

Jeanne, à petits pas
2006

The Track
1975

The Buddies
1965

Free Men
2011

Out 1
1990

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974

India Song
1975

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000

The Man in the Buick
1968

Mr. Klein
1976

Gentille
2005

The Cardboard Village
2011

Special Section
1975

The Pink Telephone
1975

Your Money or Your Life
1966

Snobs!
1962

Les années Lumière
1972

Gebo and the Shadow
2012

Le revolver et la rose
1970

The Nail Clippers
1969

Cygne II
1976

Adieu
2004

Galileo
1975

Le Renard jaune
2013

The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981

Mauvais Genre
1997

Hail! Mafia
1965

Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982

Spring
1971

Le petit Nicolas
1964

The Little Misses
1964

Crime Does Not Pay
1962

Dieu sait quoi
1994

Kaena: The Prophecy
2003

The Girl with the Cello
1973

Let There Be Light!
1998

Erendira
1983

The Big Wash
1968

Don Juan
1998

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003

A Dirty Story
1977

Caravan to Vaccarès
1974

Maestro
2014

Der Madonna-Mann
1987

N: The Madness Of Reason
2014

The Outsider
2023

The Remains of the Day
1993

Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974

Jefferson in Paris
1995

The Judge
1984

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016

The Accuser
1977

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973

Those Facing Us
2001
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Mora | 1982 | Writer |