Michael Lonsdale
Acting
Born: 1931-05-24 · Paris, France
Died: 2020-09-21
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 o
🎬 Movies (20)
The Life of Mirrors
2025
African Glory
2024
Christopher Columbus
The Outsider
2023
Narrator (Voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Self
Degas and I
2019
Edgar Degas
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
Narrator
Bazin's Film
2017
Narrator
Sculpt
2016
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
Self
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
Self
The First, the Last
2016
Jean-Berchmans
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
Daniel
The Visit
2015
Self
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
(voice)
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
Narrator
Maestro
2014
Cedric Rovère
Rosenn
2014
(voice)
Le Renard jaune
2013
Jean Virno
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
Gebo
📺 TV Shows (13)
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009
Le Grand Loustalot
Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
Antoine Carsac
Maigret
1991
Guillaume Serre
Maigret
1991
Sir Lampson
Le Tiroir secret
1986
Philippe Jolivet
Le Génie du faux
1985
Constantin Escher
Smiley's People
1982
Anton Grigoriev
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Self
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974
Smith
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Self
Out 1
1971
Thomas
Samedi soir
1971
Self
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
Socrates