Michael Lonsdale
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
207
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-05-24
Day of death
2020-09-21 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
To Each His Own Cinema
Ronin
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
India Song
Stolen Kisses
The Day of the Jackal
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Special Section
Your Money or Your Life
Out 1
The Passage
The Track
The Trial
Adorable Liar
Chut !
Erendira
Moonraker
Galileo
Maigret
Maigret
Samedi soir
Stavisky...
Le Furet
Snobs!
Hibernatus
Don Juan
Murmur of the Heart
Maestro
Crime Does Not Pay
The Name of the Rose
Agora
Une jeunesse
Inside 'Moonraker'
Souvenir
La Plante Humaine
Mauvais Genre
Un troisième
The Remains of the Day
Five Times Two
The Buddies
Sculpt
Smiley's People
Actors
Is Paris Burning?
Munich
A Dirty Story
Of Gods and Men
Mr. Klein
Aloïse
The Phantom of Liberty
There Once Was a Cop
Goya's Ghosts
The Bride Wore Black
Enigma
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Good King Dagobert
The Itchy Palm
Invisible
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
No Pockets in a Shroud
Jefferson in Paris
The Judge
The Last Mistress
It Happened in Aden
Behold a Pale Horse
La Fenêtre
The Holcroft Covenant
The Big Wash
Les Mains d'Andréa
The First, the Last
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
The Stud
Serious as Pleasure
Titeuf
Scrambled Eggs
The Man in the Buick
The Romantic Englishwoman
Heartbeat Detector
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Order of the Daisy
The Door Slams
The Left-Handed Woman
The Cardboard Village
Gebo and the Shadow
The Pink Telephone
Gentille
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Kaena: The Prophecy
Noise of Love and War
Hail! Mafia
The Life of Mirrors
Speaking of Buñuel
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
You'll Miss Me
A Monkey's Tale
The Bunker
Hitler in Hollywood
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Seul face au crime
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Adieu
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Destroy, She Said
Mad Enough to Kill
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Under a False Name
Le Renard jaune
Caravan to Vaccarès
The Old Maid
Earthen Man
Papa, the Lil' Boats
The Visit
My Life Is Hell
Le Tiroir secret
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Free Men
Jaloux comme un tigre
Judoka-Secret Agent
Let There Be Light!
The Ghostly Rental
Bye Bye Blackbird
Woyzeck
Le rose et le blanc
Out 1
Out 1: Spectre
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
The Colour of Words
Jaune, Le Soleil
Chronopolis
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Billy Ze Kick
The Girl with the Cello
La grande Paulette
Cela s'appelle l'amour
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
The Outsider
Alone
Le Silence de l'épervier
The Suspects
The Separation
The Accuser
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
The Boulugres
Jean-Sans-Terre
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
The Nail Clippers
Degas and I
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
The Little Misses
Film sur Georges Perec
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Law Breakers
The Immoral Moment
Autumn
Les Trois Sœurs
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Dieu sait quoi
Né
Le Génie du faux
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
Le petit Nicolas
Bartleby
Concerto for an Exile
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Les Écrans déchirés
Comédie
The Devil in the Box
Rosenn
Le revolver et la rose
Un paquebot dans la tête
Spring
L'ordre du jour
Those Facing Us
Winter
Mersonne ne m'aime
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
Film sur Hans Bellmer
Les amants cinéma
Der Madonna-Mann
Jeanne, à petits pas
Cygne II
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
Les années Lumière
Rendez-vous manqués
Right to the city
Sweet Inquest on Violence
The Risk of Living
Vroum-vroum
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
Emile Reynaud
African Glory
Trompe-l'oeil
Le Mythe Cathare
Bazin's Film
Zoo Story
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
Le bureau des mariages
N: The Madness Of Reason
La Rényon lontan
L'air d'aimer
