
Michael Lonsdale
Born: 1931-05-24
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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

Ronin

Moonraker

Agora

The Day of the Jackal

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Munich

Out 1

The Name of the Rose

Hibernatus

Mr. Klein

Five Times Two

Don Juan

Stolen Kisses

Un troisième

Adorable Liar

Erendira

The Remains of the Day

Inside 'Moonraker'

Souvenir

Une jeunesse

The Judge

Actors

Galileo

Stavisky...

Invisible

Le Furet

Snobs!

The Buddies

Enigma

Chut !

Murmur of the Heart

Aloïse

Maestro

The Pink Telephone

Jefferson in Paris

Adieu

The Trial

Sculpt

Goya's Ghosts

La Fenêtre

The Visit

Destroy, She Said

Of Gods and Men

Hitler in Hollywood

Is Paris Burning?

The Door Slams

The Stud

The Phantom of Liberty

Titeuf

Rosenn

Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible

A Monkey's Tale

The Bunker

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

The Last Mistress

Woyzeck

Good King Dagobert

Bartleby

The Boulugres

The Old Maid

Gentille

The Holcroft Covenant

The Bride Wore Black

The Outsider

To Each His Own Cinema

N: The Madness Of Reason

You'll Miss Me

Alone

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Né

The Games of Countess Dolingen

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

Gebo and the Shadow

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

The Romantic Englishwoman

Behold a Pale Horse

The Passage

There Once Was a Cop

Autumn

Spring

The Itchy Palm

Kaena: The Prophecy

Cygne II

African Glory

The Left-Handed Woman

Hail! Mafia

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Papa, the Lil' Boats

Under a False Name

Earthen Man

Trompe-l'oeil

Le petit Nicolas

India Song

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Man in the Buick

Bye Bye Blackbird

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

Film sur Hans Bellmer

Right to the city

The Track

Mad Enough to Kill

Winter

Concerto for an Exile

Serious as Pleasure

Chronopolis

The Separation

Le Renard jaune

The Nail Clippers

Special Section

Les Trois Sœurs

Mauvais Genre

Judoka-Secret Agent

The First, the Last

La grande Paulette

Sweet Inquest on Violence

Caravan to Vaccarès

Your Money or Your Life

Free Men

The Risk of Living

L'ordre du jour

Billy Ze Kick

My Life Is Hell

Bazin's Film

The Accuser

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert

Jaloux comme un tigre

Crime Does Not Pay

The Girl with the Cello

The Life of Mirrors

A Dirty Story

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

No Pockets in a Shroud

Let There Be Light!

L'air d'aimer

Les Mains d'Andréa

The Little Misses

The Immoral Moment

Noise of Love and War

Le revolver et la rose

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons

The Suspects

The Big Wash

Law Breakers

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

Scrambled Eggs

Out 1: Spectre

Speaking of Buñuel

Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux

Jaune, Le Soleil

Film sur Georges Perec

The Cardboard Village

Order of the Daisy

The Ghostly Rental

Le rose et le blanc

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited

Degas and I

The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey

The Insomniac on the Bridge

Comédie

Mersonne ne m'aime

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

Emile Reynaud

Heartbeat Detector

It Happened in Aden

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

A Whale That Had a Toothache

The Devil in the Box

Dieu sait quoi

La Plante Humaine

Le Mythe Cathare

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

Those Facing Us

Jeanne, à petits pas

La Rényon lontan

Les années Lumière

Der Madonna-Mann
