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