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 |