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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 |
|---|
| Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné | Self | 2021 |
| Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self | 2020 |
| Brigitte Fossey, à coeur ouvert | Self | 2016 |
| The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | 2016 |
| Les filles au Moyen Âge | Daniel | 2016 |
| Je veux être actrice | Self | 2016 |
| Sculpt | 2016 | |
| J.R.R.Tolkien, des mots, des mondes | (voice) | 2014 |
| Maestro | Cédric Rovère / Cedric Rovère | 2014 |
| Rosenn | (voice) | 2014 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Le drôle de drame de Marcel Carné | Self | 2021 |
| Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self | 2020 |
| Brigitte Fossey, à coeur ouvert | Self | 2016 |
| The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | 2016 |
| Les filles au Moyen Âge | Daniel | 2016 |
| Je veux être actrice | Self | 2016 |
| Sculpt | 2016 | |
| J.R.R.Tolkien, des mots, des mondes | (voice) | 2014 |
| Maestro | Cédric Rovère / Cedric Rovère | 2014 |
| Rosenn | (voice) | 2014 |
| N: The Madness of Reason | Narrator / Raymond Borremans | 2014 |
| Le renard jaune | Jean Virno | 2013 |
| Gebo and the Shadow | Gebo | 2012 |
| The Cardboard Village | Il vecchio prete | 2011 |
| Free Men | Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit | 2011 |
| Hitler in Hollywood | Michael Lonsdale | 2011 |
| Titeuf: The Movie | Le psy | 2011 |
| Of Gods and Men | Luc | 2010 |
| Hollywood contra Franco | Reporter | 2009 |
| Agora | Theon | 2009 |
| Park Benches | Le client au paillasson | 2009 |
| Je vais te manquer | Max | 2009 |
| Les amants cinéma | Self | 2008 |
| Il sera une fois... | Le vieux monsieur | 2007 |
| Lonsdale l'insondable | Self | 2007 |
| Heartbeat Detector | Mathias Jüst | 2007 |
| The Last Mistress | Le vicomte de Prony / le vicomte Prony | 2007 |
| To Each His Own Cinema | The old blind man (segment "Le Don") | 2007 |
| Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure | Bartleby / Bartleby (Stimme franz. Fassung) | 2007 |
| Goya's Ghosts | Inquisitor General | 2006 |
| Munich | Papa | 2005 |
| Gentille | Jean | 2005 |
| La séparation | Paul Doumer | 2005 |
| Selon Rachel | 2005 | |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | Robert | 2005 |
| The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Le professeur Stangerson | 2005 |
| Les invisibles | Le gardien | 2005 |
| Five Times Two | Bernard | 2004 |
| Adieu | Serge | 2004 |
| Under a False Name | David | 2004 |
| Le Furet | Don Salvadore | 2003 |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Stangerson | 2003 |
| Kaena: The Prophecy | Opaz / Opaz (french voice) | 2003 |
| Best Ever Bond | Hugo Drax | 2002 |
| Those Facing Us | Mikaël | 2001 |
| Actors | L'homme qui marche dans la rue / Self | 2000 |
| Regarding Buñuel | Self | 2000 |
| Inside 'Moonraker' | Self | 2000 |
| Delphine Seyrig Portrait of a Comet | Self | 2000 |
| A Monkey's Tale | Master Martin / Maître Flavius (Voice) | 1999 |
| Ronin | Jean-Pierre | 1998 |
| Let There Be Light | Monseigneur Loublié | 1998 |
| Don Juan | Don Luis | 1998 |
| Un prete tra noi | Vescovo | 1997 |
| Mauvais genre | Honoré de Balzac | 1997 |
| La plante humaine | Michel | 1996 |
| Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud | Dolabella / Dollabella | 1996 |
| In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross | Drax | 1995 |
| Jefferson in Paris | Louis XVI | 1995 |
| Un siècle d'écrivains | Récitant / Narrator | 1995 |
| God Only Knows | Narrator / Récitant | 1994 |
| The Remains of the Day | Dupont D'Ivry | 1993 |
| L'ordre du jour | Stark | 1993 |
| My Life Is Hell | Gabriel | 1991 |
| Maigret | Sir Lampson / Monsieur Serre | 1991 |
| Cela s'appelle l'amour | Self | 1989 |
| L'homme de terre | Narrator / (voice) | 1989 |
| The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | Le maître / Cammerschulze | 1988 |
| Souvenir | Xavier Lorion | 1988 |
| Der Madonna-Mann | Tanzmann | 1987 |
| Riviera | Detective Dubois | 1987 |
| The Name of the Rose | Der Abt / The Abbot | 1986 |
| Le tiroir secret | Philippe Hartman | 1986 |
| Canevas la ville | Narrator | 1986 |
| Billy Ze Kick | Commissaire Bellanger | 1985 |
| The Insomniac on the Bridge | Antoine / Antonie | 1985 |
| The Holcroft Covenant | Ernst Manfredi | 1985 |
| Le bon roi Dagobert | Saint Eloi | 1984 |
| La couleur des mots | Self / Himself | 1984 |
| The Judge | Le Docteur | 1984 |
| Chronopolis | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1983 |
| Une jeunesse | Bejardy / Béjardy | 1983 |
| Erendira | Senator Onésimo Sanchez | 1983 |
| Les Boulugres | Le Roi | 1983 |
| Jean-Louis Barrault, un homme de théâtre | Récitant / Narrator | 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 |
| Le rose et le blanc | Léon | 1982 |
| Chariots of Fire | Garth Jones | 1981 |
| The Bunker | Martin Bormann | 1981 |
| Ella, une vraie famille | Le comédien studio d'enregistrement | 1980 |
| Moonraker | Hugo Drax | 1979 |
| The Passage | Renoudot / Alain Renoudot | 1979 |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Kellner / The Waiter | 1978 |
| The Risk of Living | narrator | 1978 |
| Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible | 1977 | |
| A Dirty Story | (as Michaël Lonsdale) | 1977 |
| The Accuser | Abéraud | 1977 |
| The Devil in the Box | Georges Aubert | 1977 |
| Sur les traces de Balint | 1977 | |
| Jacques Prévert | Self | 1977 |
| Bartleby | L'huissier | 1976 |
| Mr. Klein | Pierre | 1976 |
| Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta | Le vice-consul de Lahore | 1976 |
| Scrambled Eggs | Le Président de la République / The President of the Republic | 1976 |
| Ne | 1975 | |
| The Pink Telephone | Morrison / M. Morrison, président de la Fielding | 1975 |
| Mad Enough to Kill | Stéphane Mostri / Stephane Mostri | 1975 |
| The Romantic Englishwoman | Swan | 1975 |
| India Song | Le vice-consul de Lahore | 1975 |
| The Track | David Sutter | 1975 |
| Special Section | Pierre Pucheu, le ministre de l'Intérieur / Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur | 1975 |
| Aloïse | le médecin | 1975 |
| Galileo | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) | 1975 |
| Serious as Pleasure | L'inspecteur Fournier / Inspecteur Fournier | 1975 |
| The Suspects | Le juge Souftries | 1974 |
| No Pockets in a Shroud | Raymond | 1974 |
| The Phantom of Liberty | Le chapelier / Jean Bermans | 1974 |
| Caravan to Vaccares | Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale) / Duc de Croyter | 1974 |
| Stavisky | Docteur Mézy | 1974 |
| La grande Paulette | Paul | 1974 |
| Successive Slidings of Pleasure | Le magistrat instructeur / The Judge | 1974 |
| Film sur Hans Bellmer | Narrator | 1974 |
| Big Sentiments Make for Good Sports | Stéphane | 1973 |
| The Girl with the Cello | Philippe Lariel | 1973 |
| The Day of the Jackal | Lebel / Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel | 1973 |
| Out 1: Spectre | Thomas | 1972 |
| Alberte | Jean | 1972 |
| Cops Is Cops | Le commissaire Lucas | 1972 |
| Jaune le soleil | Un juif | 1972 |
| The Old Maid | Monod | 1972 |
| Papa, the Lil' Boats | Hippolyte the brother of Marylène / Hippolyte the brother of Marylène (as Michel Lonsdale) | 1971 |
| Out 1 | Thomas | 1971 |
| Romulus le grand | L'empereur Romulus Augustule | 1971 |
| Law Breakers | Inspecteur Bertrand | 1971 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Father Henri | 1971 |
| Le printemps | L'homme qui fuit | 1971 |
| The Stud | Both / le commissaire Donald Both | 1970 |
| L'hiver | Julien & Marc | 1969 |
| Destroy, She Said | Stein | 1969 |
| Hibernatus | Le professeur Édouard Loriebat / Edouard Loriebat | 1969 |
| La pince à ongles | Le mari | 1969 |
| The Big Wash | Delaroche | 1968 |
| Stolen Kisses | Georges Tabard | 1968 |
| The Bride Wore Black | Morane / Rene Morane | 1968 |
| The Man in the Buick | L'inspecteur / The inspector / L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J. | 1968 |
| Concerto for an Exile | Un acteur au théâtre | 1968 |
| The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung | Defense / Un avocat | 1967 |
| Judoka-Secret Agent | Thomas Perkins | 1967 |
| Les compagnons de la marguerite | Lataque, expert en écritures / Lastac / La voix du juge d'instruction / Le juge (voice) | 1967 |
| Is Paris Burning? | Debu-Bridel | 1966 |
| Your Money or Your Life | Le conférencier au club des timides | 1966 |
| Hail, Mafia | Hyman | 1965 |
| La redevance du fantôme | Kerman / Kernan | 1965 |
| Les copains | Lamenbin / Lamendin | 1965 |
| Jaloux comme un tigre | L'automobiliste qui grimace / un autre homme en voiture | 1964 |
| Behold a Pale Horse | Reporter | 1964 |
| Les petites demoiselles | L'Elève | 1964 |
| The Trial | Priest | 1962 |
| Snobs! | Charles Dufaut | 1962 |
| Escale obligatoire | L'Américain | 1962 |
| The Immoral Moment | Mercier | 1962 |
| Crime Does Not Pay | Acteur / L'employé de la morgue (segment "L'homme de l'avenue") | 1962 |
| Adorable menteuse | Albert | 1962 |
| The Door Slams | Georges Hortegrenave / Georges | 1960 |
| The Itchy Palm | Nobert | 1960 |
| A Bullet in the Gun Barrel | (as Michel Lonsdale) | 1958 |
| It Happened in Aden | Sinclair | 1956 |
