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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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-05-24
Place of birth
Paris, France
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Cast
The Name of the Rose
1986
7.49
Stolen Kisses
1968
7.30
Munich
2005
7.10
Moonraker
1979
6.18
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
0.00
Les amants cinéma
2008
0.00
Hibernatus
1969
6.72
The Last Mistress
2007
5.70
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980
0.00
The Bride Wore Black
1968
7.12
Enigma
1982
5.50
My Life Is Hell
1991
5.80
Law Breakers
1971
5.50
The Day of the Jackal
1973
7.50
The Door Slams
1960
0.00
The Old Maid
1972
5.80
Five Times Two
2004
6.43
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
7.40
It Happened in Aden
1956
6.00
Ronin
1998
6.96
Right to the city
1974
0.00
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976
0.00
Agora
2009
6.99
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
6.90
The Suspects
1974
5.22
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
6.17
The Bunker
1981
6.20
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
5.38
Murmur of the Heart
1971
7.00
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
6.00
Heartbeat Detector
2007
5.60
Stavisky...
1974
5.89
Titeuf
2011
5.70
Good King Dagobert
1984
4.10
Aloïse
1975
5.60
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
5.20
Under a False Name
2004
5.58
Of Gods and Men
2010
6.70
Invisible
2005
4.40
Destroy, She Said
1969
6.80
Actors
2000
5.74
Woyzeck
1993
0.00
Le Furet
2003
3.58
The Passage
1979
6.10
Un troisième
1970
0.00
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
0.00
There Once Was a Cop
1972
6.00
Adorable Liar
1962
5.20
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
0.00
The Track
1975
6.80
The Buddies
1965
5.10
Free Men
2011
5.60
Out 1
1990
7.20
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
6.00
India Song
1975
6.35
The Man in the Buick
1968
6.30
Mr. Klein
1976
7.20
Gentille
2005
5.50
The Cardboard Village
2011
5.70
Special Section
1975
7.10
The Pink Telephone
1975
4.50
Your Money or Your Life
1966
5.90
Snobs!
1962
5.70
Les années Lumière
1972
0.00
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
6.70
Le revolver et la rose
1970
0.00
The Nail Clippers
1969
6.20
Cygne II
1976
6.00
Adieu
2004
7.30
Galileo
1975
5.90
Le Renard jaune
2013
5.50
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
2.90
Mauvais Genre
1997
3.20
Hail! Mafia
1965
7.00
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
5.60
Spring
1971
6.30
Le petit Nicolas
1964
0.00
The Little Misses
1964
0.00
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
5.10
Dieu sait quoi
1994
6.00
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
5.90
The Girl with the Cello
1973
0.00
Let There Be Light!
1998
5.80
Erendira
1983
5.88
The Big Wash
1968
5.90
Don Juan
1998
4.35
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
6.60
A Dirty Story
1977
6.40
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
5.10
Maestro
2014
6.14
Der Madonna-Mann
1987
0.00
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
6.00
The Outsider
2023
10.00
The Remains of the Day
1993
7.36
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
6.00
Jefferson in Paris
1995
5.00
The Judge
1984
6.50
The Accuser
1977
5.70
Those Facing Us
2001
3.00
The Itchy Palm
1960
6.00
Chronopolis
1983
5.80
La grande Paulette
1974
0.00
Goya's Ghosts
2006
6.59
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
0.00
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
0.00
The Devil in the Box
1977
4.50
Scrambled Eggs
1976
4.00
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
5.50
Winter
1969
7.50
Bartleby
1976
6.60
Souvenir
1989
5.50
The First, the Last
2016
6.40
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
6.80
Out 1: Spectre
1973
6.60
Alone
1981
5.50
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
4.06
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
5.00
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
6.55
Autumn
1972
7.40
The Risk of Living
1978
6.00
The Ghostly Rental
1965
7.13
Is Paris Burning?
1966
7.20
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
6.00
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
5.00
Noise of Love and War
1997
7.00
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
4.60
La Plante Humaine
1996
7.00
L'air d'aimer
1986
0.00
Chut !
1972
0.00
Concerto for an Exile
1968
5.60
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
6.20
Bazin's Film
2017
7.00
You'll Miss Me
2009
4.20
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
2.00
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
6.70
Né
1975
10.00
The Trial
1962
7.42
L'ordre du jour
1993
2.00
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
6.50
The Colour of Words
1984
0.00
The Immoral Moment
1962
4.80
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
5.00
Earthen Man
1989
0.00
Vroum-vroum
1995
0.00
Rosenn
2014
0.00
Order of the Daisy
1967
6.30
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967
0.00
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
5.20
Serious as Pleasure
1975
3.44
Comédie
1966
8.50
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
6.00
The Stud
1970
4.67
Degas and I
2019
7.50
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
6.80
A Monkey's Tale
1999
6.40
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
0.00
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
0.00
The Visit
2015
0.00
Une jeunesse
1983
0.00
La Fenêtre
1970
0.00
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
0.00
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
0.00
The Separation
2005
7.00
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
5.90
The Boulugres
1983
0.00
Billy Ze Kick
1985
4.80
Les Écrans déchirés
1976
0.00
Sculpt
2016
1.00
Seul face au crime
1991
0.00
African Glory
2024
0.00
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
0.00
Le bureau des mariages
1962
0.00
Le rose et le blanc
1982
0.00
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
5.96
La Rényon lontan
1983
0.00
The Life of Mirrors
2025
0.00
Zoo Story
1968
0.00
Emile Reynaud
1986
0.00
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
0.00