Michael Lonsdale

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Michael Edward Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a British-French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M. Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day.

Birth Name

Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch

Born

Sunday, 24 May 1931

Died

Monday, 21 September 2020

Actor Filmography

Title	Character	Year

The First, the Last	Jean-Berchmans	2016
Les filles au Moyen Âge	Daniel	2016
N: The Madness Of Reason	Narrator	2014
Maestro	Cédric Rovère	2014
Rosenn	(voice)	2014
Le Renard jaune	Jean Virno	2013
Gebo et l'ombre	Gebo	2012
The Cardboard VIllage	Il vecchio prete	2011
Free Men	Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit	2011
Titeuf: The Movie	Le psy (voice)	2011

(see additional filmography)

Actor Filmography

Title	Character	Year

The First, the Last	Jean-Berchmans	2016
Les filles au Moyen Âge	Daniel	2016
N: The Madness Of Reason	Narrator	2014
Maestro	Cédric Rovère	2014
Rosenn	(voice)	2014
Le Renard jaune	Jean Virno	2013
Gebo et l'ombre	Gebo	2012
The Cardboard VIllage	Il vecchio prete	2011
Free Men	Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit	2011
Titeuf: The Movie	Le psy (voice)	2011
Of Gods and Men	Luc	2010
Agora	Theon	2009
Park Benches	Le client au paillasson	2009
Je vais te manquer	Max	2009
Hollywood contra Franco	Reporter (archive footage)	2008
Heartbeat Detector	Mathias Jüst	2007
The Last Mistress	Le vicomte de Prony	2007
To Each His Own Cinema	The old blind man (segment "Le Don")	2007
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure	Bartleby (voice)	2007
Goya's Ghosts	Inquisitor General	2006
Munich	Papa	2005
Gentille	Jean	2005
Bye Bye Blackbird	Robert	2005
Le parfum de la dame en noir	Le professeur Stangerson	2005
5x2	Bernard	2004
Adieu	Serge	2004
The Mystery of the Yellow Room	Stangerson	2003
Kaena: The Prophecy	Opaz (voice)	2003
Actors	L'homme qui marche dans la rue	2000
Inside 'Moonraker'	Himself	2000
Le château des singes	Master Martin (voice)	1999
Ronin	Jean-Pierre	1998
Let There Be Light	Monseigneur Loublié	1998
Don Juan	Don Luis	1998
Mauvais Genre	Honoré de Balzac	1997
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud	Dolabella	1996
Jefferson in Paris	Louis XVI	1995
God Only Knows	Narrator	1994
The Remains of the Day	Dupont D'Ivry	1993
My Life Is Hell	Gabriel	1991
Maigret	Monsieur Serre, Sir Lampson	1991
Souvenir	Xavier Lorion	1989
Riviera	Detective Dubois	1987
The Name of the Rose	Der Abt	1986
The Holcroft Covenant	Ernst Manfredi	1985
Good King Dagobert	Saint Eloi	1984
La couleur des mots	Himself (as Michaël Lonsdale)	1984
Eréndira	Senator Onésimo Sanchez	1983
Sweet Inquest on Violence	Ash, le financier	1982
Enigma	Bodley	1982
Smiley's People	Anton Grigoriev	1982
The Games of Countess Dolingen	Bertrand Haines-Pearson	1982
Chariots of Fire	Garth Jones	1981
The Bunker	Martin Bormann	1981
The Left-Handed Woman	Kellner	1979
Moonraker	Hugo Drax	1979
The Passage	Renoudot	1979
Mr. Klein	Pierre	1976
Le téléphone rose	Morrison	1975
Mad Enough to Kill	Stéphane Mostri (as Michel Lonsdale)	1975
The Romantic Englishwoman	Swan (as Michel Lonsdale)	1975
India Song	Le vice-consul de Lahore (as Michel Lonsdale)	1975
Special Section	Pierre Pucheu, le ministre de l'Intérieur (as Michel Lonsdale)	1975
Galileo	Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)	1975
Serious as Pleasure	L'inspecteur Fournier / Inspector Fournier (as Michel Lonsdale)	1975
The Suspects	Le juge Souftries	1974
The Phantom of Liberty	Hatter	1974
Caravan to Vaccares	Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)	1974
Stavisky...	Docteur Mézy	1974
Successive Slidings of Pleasure	Le magistrat instructeur (as Michel Lonsdale)	1974
Film sur Hans Bellmer	Narrator	1974
The Day of the Jackal	Lebel (as Michel Lonsdale)	1973
Cops Is Cops	Le commissaire Lucas (as Michel Lonsdale)	1972
Out 1: Spectre	Thomas	1972
Papa the Little Boats	Hippolyte (as Michel Lonsdale)	1971
Le printemps	L'homme qui fuit	1971
Out 1	Thomas	1971
Law Breakers	Inspecteur Bertrand	1971
Murmur of the Heart	Father Henri	1971
L'hiver	Julien & Marc	1969
Hibernatus	Le professeur Édouard Loriebat (as Michel Lonsdale)	1969
La pince à ongles	Le mari	1969
Stolen Kisses	Georges Tabard (as Michel Lonsdale)	1968
The Bride Wore Black	Morane	1968
Concerto for an Exile	Un acteur au théâtre	1968
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung	Defense	1967
Les compagnons de la marguerite	La voix du juge d'instruction (as Michel Lonsdale) / Lataque, expert en écritures	1967
Is Paris Burning?	Debu-Bridel	1966
Your Money or Your Life	Le conférencier au club des timides (as Michel Lonsdale)	1966
Hail, Mafia	Hyman	1965
Les copains	Lamenbin (as Michel Lonsdale)	1965
Les petites demoiselles		1964
Jaloux comme un tigre	L'automobiliste qui grimace	1964
Behold A Pale Horse	Reporter	1964
The Trial	Priest	1962
Snobs!	Charles Dufaut (as Michel Lonsdale)	1962
Crime Does Not Pay	Acteur	1962
Adorable menteuse	Albert (as Michel Lonsdale)	1962
The Door Slams	Georges Hortegrenave	1960
The Itchy Palm	Nobert (as Alfred de Turris)	1960
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel	(as Michel Lonsdale)	1958