
Birthday
1931/05/24
Day of death
2020/09/21 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know as
Michel Lonsdale, Майкл Лонсдейл, Мишель Лонсдаль, Майкл Лонсдаль
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...Read more

(1986) The Name of the Rose
as The Abbot

(1968) Stolen Kisses
as Georges Tabard

(2005) Munich
as Papa

(1979) Moonraker
as Hugo Drax

(1990) Film sur Georges Perec
as Self
(2008) Les amants cinéma
as Self

(1969) Hibernatus
as Edouard Loriebat

(2007) The Last Mistress
as le vicomte Prony
(1980) Jean-Sans-Terre
as Jean Papeuil

(1968) The Bride Wore Black
as Morane

(1982) Enigma
as Bodley

(1991) My Life Is Hell
as Gabriel

(1971) Law Breakers
as Inspector Bertrand

(1973) The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel

(1960) The Door Slams
as Georges

(1972) The Old Maid
as Monod

(2004) Five Times Two
as Bernard

(1974) The Phantom of Liberty
as The Hatter

(1956) It Happened in Aden
as Sinclair

(1998) Ronin
as Jean-Pierre

(1974) Right to the city
as Narrator
(1976) La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
as Boris

(2009) Agora
as Theon

(1995) Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
as Dollabella

(1974) The Suspects
as Judge Souftries

(2007) Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
as Bartleby (voice)

(1981) The Bunker
as Martin Bormann

(1975) The Romantic Englishwoman
as Swan

(1971) Murmur of the Heart
as Father Henri

(2005) The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Le professeur Stangerson

(2007) Heartbeat Detector
as Mathias Jüst

(1974) Stavisky...
as Docteur Mézy

(2011) Titeuf
as Le psy (voice)

(1984) Good King Dagobert
as Saint Eloi

(1975) Aloïse
as le médecin

(1974) No Pockets in a Shroud
as Raymond

(2004) Under a False Name
as David

(2010) Of Gods and Men
as Luc

(2005) Invisible
as Le gardien

(1976) Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as The Vice Consul of Lahore

(1969) Destroy, She Said
as Stein

(2000) Actors
as Man walking down the street

(1993) Woyzeck
as Le capitaine

(2003) Le Furet
as Don Salvadore

(1979) The Passage
as Renoudot

(1970) Un troisième
as Le réalisateur

(1960) Les Trois Sœurs
as Andreï Prodarov

(1972) There Once Was a Cop
as Commissioner Lucas

(1962) Adorable Liar
as Albert

(2006) Jeanne, à petits pas
as Louis

(1975) The Track
as David Sutter

(1965) The Buddies
as Lamendin

(2011) Free Men
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit

(1990) Out 1
as Thomas

(1974) Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The Judge

(1975) India Song
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore

(2000) Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self

(1968) The Man in the Buick
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.

(1976) Mr. Klein
as Pierre

(2005) Gentille
as Jean

(2011) The Cardboard Village
as Old Priest

(1975) Special Section
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur

(1975) The Pink Telephone
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding

(1966) Your Money or Your Life
as Speaker at the shy people's club

(1962) Snobs!
as Charles Dufaut

(1972) Les années Lumière
as Narrator (voice)

(2012) Gebo and the Shadow
as Gebo

(1970) Le revolver et la rose
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky

(1969) The Nail Clippers
as Le mari

(1976) Cygne II
as Narrator (voice)

(2004) Adieu
as Serge

(1975) Galileo
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

(2013) Le Renard jaune
as Jean Virno

(1981) The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson

(1997) Mauvais Genre
as Honoré de Balzac

(1965) Hail! Mafia
as Hyman

(1982) Sweet Inquest on Violence
as Ash, the financier

(1971) Spring
as L'homme qui fuit

(1964) Le petit Nicolas
as The father

(1964) The Little Misses
as L'elève

(1962) Crime Does Not Pay
as Acteur

(1994) Dieu sait quoi
as Narrator

(2003) Kaena: The Prophecy
as Opaz (voice)

(1973) The Girl with the Cello
as Philippe Lariel

(1998) Let There Be Light!
as Monseigneur Loublié

(1983) Erendira
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez

(1968) The Big Wash
as Delaroche

(1998) Don Juan
as Don Luis

(2003) The Mystery of the Yellow Room
as Stangerson

(1977) A Dirty Story
as The voyeur

(1974) Caravan to Vaccarès
as Duc de Croyter

(2014) Maestro
as Cedric Rovère

(1987) Der Madonna-Mann
as Tanzmann

(2014) N: The Madness Of Reason
as Narrator

(2023) The Outsider
as Narrator (Voice)

(1993) The Remains of the Day
as Dupont D'Ivry

(1974) Film sur Hans Bellmer
as Narrator

(1995) Jefferson in Paris
as Louis XVI

(1984) The Judge
as Le docteur

(2016) Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
as Self

(1977) The Accuser
as Abéraud

(1973) Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Stéphane

(2001) Those Facing Us
as Mikaël

(1960) The Itchy Palm
as Nobert

(1983) Chronopolis
as Narrator (voice)

(1974) La grande Paulette
as Paul

(2006) Goya's Ghosts
as Inquisitor General

(1997) Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
as (voice)

(1982) Trompe-l'oeil
as Self (voice)

(1977) The Devil in the Box
as Georges Aubert

(1976) Scrambled Eggs
as The President of the Republic

(1985) The Holcroft Covenant
as Ernst Manfredi

(1969) Winter
as Julien & Marc

(1976) Bartleby
as L'Huissier
(1979) Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
as ---

(1989) Souvenir
as Xavier Lorion

(2016) The First, the Last
as Jean-Berchmans

(2016) Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
as Daniel

(1973) Out 1: Spectre
as Thomas

(1981) Alone
as Ludovic

(1971) Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène

(2005) Bye Bye Blackbird
as Robert

(1978) The Left-Handed Woman
as The Waiter

(1972) Autumn
as Julien, le réalisateur
(1978) The Risk of Living
as narrator

(1965) The Ghostly Rental
as Kernan

(1988) The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as Cammerschulze

(1966) Is Paris Burning?
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)

(1974) The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate

(1985) The Insomniac on the Bridge
as Antonie
(1989) Cela s'appelle l'amour
as Self

(1997) Noise of Love and War
as The director

(1971) Jaune, Le Soleil
as Un juif

(1996) La Plante Humaine
as Michel

(1986) L'air d'aimer
as Raymond

(1972) Chut !
as Sergel

(2014) J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
as (voice)

(1968) Concerto for an Exile
as Un acteur au théâtre

(2011) Hitler in Hollywood
as Michael Lonsdale

(1967) The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
as L'Avocat de la Défense

(2017) Bazin's Film
as Narrator

(2009) You'll Miss Me
as Max

(1964) Jaloux comme un tigre
as The grimacing motorist

(1975) Mad Enough to Kill
as Stephane Mostri

(1975) Né
as Self

(1962) The Trial
as Priest

(1993) L'ordre du jour
as Stark

(2007) To Each His Own Cinema
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
(1984) The Colour of Words
as Self

(2011) Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
as Narrateur

(1962) The Immoral Moment
as Mercier

(1975) A Whale That Had a Toothache
as Le peintre

(1989) Earthen Man
as (voice)
(1995) Vroum-vroum
as ---

(2014) Rosenn
as (voice)

(1967) Order of the Daisy
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)

(1967) Judoka-Secret Agent
as Thomas Perkins

(1958) A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
as ---

(1975) Serious as Pleasure
as Inspecteur Fournier

(1966) Comédie
as L'homme (M)

(2020) Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self

(1970) The Stud
as Commissioner Donald Both
(2000) Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
as Narrator (voice)

(2019) Degas and I
as Edgar Degas

(2000) Inside 'Moonraker'
as Self

(2016) The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
as Self
(1986) The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
as Self

(1999) A Monkey's Tale
as Maître Flavius (Voice)

(2019) Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
as Narrator
(1986) Rendez-vous manqués
as Moralès
(1981) Un paquebot dans la tête
as Roland

(2015) The Visit
as Self

(1983) Une jeunesse
as Béjardy

(1970) La Fenêtre
as Bracquemont

(1982) Mersonne ne m'aime
as Commissioner Bancau

(2006) Les Mains d'Andréa
as ---

(2005) The Separation
as Paul Doumer

(2000) Speaking of Buñuel
as Self

(1983) The Boulugres
as Le roi (voice)

(1985) Billy Ze Kick
as Commissaire Bellanger
(1976) Les Écrans déchirés
as Michael

(2016) Sculpt
as ---
(1991) Seul face au crime
as Procuratore

(2024) African Glory
as Christopher Columbus

(2002) Le Mythe Cathare
as Narrator
(1962) Le bureau des mariages
as ---

(1977) Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
as ---

(1982) Le rose et le blanc
as Léon

(1964) Behold a Pale Horse
as Reporter

(1983) La Rényon lontan
as Narrator (voice)

(2025) The Life of Mirrors
as ---
(1968) Zoo Story
as Peter

(1986) Emile Reynaud
as Narrator

(1986) The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
as Narrator

(1985) Le Génie du faux
as Constantin Escher

(1991) Maigret
as Guillaume Serre

(1971) Out 1
as Thomas

(1982) Smiley's People
as Anton Grigoriev

(1986) Le Tiroir secret
as Philippe Jolivet

(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self

(2008) Le Silence de l'épervier
as Antoine Carsac
(1971) Samedi soir
as Self

(1975) Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self

(2009) Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
as Le Grand Loustalot

(1974) La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
as Smith

(1970) Les Cent Livres des Hommes
as Socrates