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.
196 movies · 14 shows
The Life of Mirrors
2025·0.0
African Glory
2024·0.0
The Outsider
2023·10.0
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022·2.0
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020·6.0
Degas and I
2019·7.5
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019·8.7
Bazin's Film
2017·7.0
Sculpt
2016·1.0
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016·6.3
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016·10.0
The First, the Last
2016·6.5
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016·6.8
The Visit
2015·0.0
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014·6.9
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014·6.0
Maestro
2014·6.2
Rosenn
2014·6.0
Le Renard jaune
2013·5.5
Gebo and the Shadow
2012·6.6
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011·0.0
The Cardboard Village
2011·5.7
Free Men
2011·5.6
Hitler in Hollywood
2011·6.2
Titeuf
2011·5.7
Of Gods and Men
2010·6.7
You'll Miss Me
2009·4.5
Agora
2009·7.0
The Man from London
2008·7.0
Les amants cinéma
2008·0.0
To Each His Own Cinema
2007·6.5
Heartbeat Detector
2007·5.6
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007·6.2
The Last Mistress
2007·5.8
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006·0.0
Goya's Ghosts
2006·6.6
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006·0.0
Munich
2005·7.1
Gentille
2005·5.8
The Separation
2005·7.0
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005·5.3
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005·6.0
Invisible
2005·4.6
Under a False Name
2004·5.7
Adieu
2004·7.3
Five Times Two
2004·6.5
Le Furet
2003·4.4
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003·6.6
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003·5.9
Le Mythe Cathare
2002·0.0
Those Facing Us
2001·6.5
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000·7.5
Speaking of Buñuel
2000·6.0
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000·6.8
Actors
2000·5.8
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000·8.0
A Monkey's Tale
1999·6.4
Ronin
1998·7.0
Let There Be Light!
1998·6.5
Don Juan
1998·4.5
Mauvais Genre
1997·4.2
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997·0.0
Noise of Love and War
1997·8.0
La Plante Humaine
1996·8.5
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995·7.0
Jefferson in Paris
1995·5.1
Vroum-vroum
1995·7.0
Dieu sait quoi
1994·6.5
The Remains of the Day
1993·7.4
Woyzeck
1993·7.0
L'ordre du jour
1993·3.7
My Life Is Hell
1991·5.8
Seul face au crime
1991·9.0
Out 1
1990·7.1
Film sur Georges Perec
1990·7.0
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989·5.0
Souvenir
1989·6.0
Earthen Man
1989·10.0
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988·6.6
Der Madonna-Mann
1987·7.0
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986·6.7
The Name of the Rose
1986·7.5
Rendez-vous manqués
1986·8.0
L'air d'aimer
1986·7.0
Emile Reynaud
1986·0.0
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986·0.0
Billy Ze Kick
1985·5.6
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985·7.0
The Holcroft Covenant
1985·5.5
Good King Dagobert
1984·4.2
The Colour of Words
1984·9.0
The Judge
1984·7.1
Chronopolis
1983·6.0
Une jeunesse
1983·7.0
Erendira
1983·6.1
The Boulugres
1983·10.0
La Rényon lontan
1983·0.0
Enigma
1982·5.6
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982·10.0
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982·5.9
Le rose et le blanc
1982·10.0
Trompe-l'oeil
1982·0.0
Alone
1981·6.0
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981·3.3
The Bunker
1981·6.3
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981·9.0
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980·9.0
Moonraker
1979·6.2
The Passage
1979·6.0
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979·10.0
The Left-Handed Woman
1978·6.9
The Risk of Living
1978·7.0
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977·7.3
A Dirty Story
1977·6.1
The Accuser
1977·6.2
The Devil in the Box
1977·6.0
Bartleby
1976·7.0
Mr. Klein
1976·7.2
Cygne II
1976·6.0
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976·7.2
Scrambled Eggs
1976·6.0
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976·0.0
Les Écrans déchirés
1976·9.0
Né
1975·10.0
The Pink Telephone
1975·4.8
Mad Enough to Kill
1975·6.8
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975·5.4
India Song
1975·6.4
The Track
1975·6.8
Special Section
1975·7.1
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975·6.7
Aloïse
1975·6.2
Galileo
1975·6.0
Serious as Pleasure
1975·3.9
The Suspects
1974·5.4
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974·5.4
The Phantom of Liberty
1974·7.5
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974·5.4
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974·5.3
Stavisky...
1974·5.9
La Grande Paulette
1974·7.0
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974·6.2
Right to the city
1974·0.0
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974·6.0
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973·4.8
The Girl with the Cello
1973·7.0
Out 1: Spectre
1973·6.6
The Day of the Jackal
1973·7.5
Autumn
1972·7.5
Chut !
1972·7.0
Les Années Lumière
1972·0.0
There Once Was a Cop
1972·6.0
The Old Maid
1972·5.9
Spring
1971·6.4
Law Breakers
1971·5.5
Murmur of the Heart
1971·7.0
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971·4.6
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971·5.2
Le revolver et la rose
1970·10.0
Un troisième
1970·0.0
La Fenêtre
1970·9.0
The Stud
1970·4.9
Winter
1969·7.8
Destroy, She Said
1969·6.9
Hibernatus
1969·6.7
The Nail Clippers
1969·6.7
The Big Wash
1968·5.9
Stolen Kisses
1968·7.3
The Bride Wore Black
1968·7.1
The Man in the Buick
1968·6.4
Zoo Story
1968·8.0
Concerto for an Exile
1968·6.0
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967·7.3
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967·7.0
Order of the Daisy
1967·6.2
Is Paris Burning?
1966·7.2
Your Money or Your Life
1966·6.0
Comédie
1966·8.7
Hail! Mafia
1965·7.4
The Ghostly Rental
1965·7.7
The Buddies
1965·5.3
Behold a Pale Horse
1964·6.0
The Little Misses
1964·0.0
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964·4.7
Le Petit Nicolas
1964·0.0
Snobs!
1962·6.0
The Trial
1962·7.4
The Immoral Moment
1962·5.2
Crime Does Not Pay
1962·5.5
Le bureau des mariages
1962·7.0
Adorable Liar
1962·5.8
The Door Slams
1960·7.0
The Itchy Palm
1960·7.5
Les Trois Sœurs
1960·7.0
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958·5.4
It Happened in Aden
1956·7.0