Michael Lonsdale

ActorWriter May 24 (died age 89) Paris, France 1956–2025 (69 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

The Name of the Rose

The Abbot

Film

Munich

Papa

Film

Ronin

Jean-Pierre

Film

The Remains of the Day

Dupont D'Ivry

Film

Agora

Theon

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel

Film

Moonraker

Hugo Drax

Film

The Trial

Priest

Filmography

Acting (207)

Movies (195)

The Life of Mirrors

2025

African Glory

2024

as Christopher Columbus

The Outsider

2023

as Narrator (Voice)

10.0

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

2022

as Self (archive footage)

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

2020

as Self

6.0

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

as Narrator

Degas and I

as Edgar Degas

Bazin's Film

as Narrator

Sculpt

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

2016

as Self

10.0

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

as Daniel

The First, the Last

as Jean-Berchmans

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

2016

as Self

6.3

The Visit

2015

as Self

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

as (voice)

Maestro

as Cedric Rovère

N: The Madness Of Reason

2014

as Narrator

6.0

Rosenn

2014

as (voice)

Le Renard jaune

as Jean Virno

Gebo and the Shadow

as Gebo

Titeuf

as Le psy (voice)

Hitler in Hollywood

as Michael Lonsdale

Free Men

as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit

5.6

The Cardboard Village

2011

as Old Priest

5.7

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

2011

as Narrateur

Of Gods and Men

as Luc

Agora

as Theon

You'll Miss Me

as Max

Les amants cinéma

as Self

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")

6.5

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

as Bartleby (voice)

The Last Mistress

as le vicomte Prony

Heartbeat Detector

as Mathias Jüst

Goya's Ghosts

as Inquisitor General

6.6

Jeanne, à petits pas

2006

as Louis

Les Mains d'Andréa

Munich

as Papa

The Separation

as Paul Doumer

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

2005

as Le professeur Stangerson

Gentille

as Jean

Invisible

as Le gardien

Bye Bye Blackbird

as Robert

Five Times Two

as Bernard

Adieu

as Serge

Under a False Name

as David

Le Furet

as Don Salvadore

Kaena: The Prophecy

as Opaz (voice)

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

2003

as Stangerson

6.6

Le Mythe Cathare

2002

as Narrator

Those Facing Us

2001

as Mikaël

3.0

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

2000

as Self

8.0

Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein

2000

as Narrator (voice)

Inside 'Moonraker'

2000

as Self

6.8

Actors

2000

as Man walking down the street

Speaking of Buñuel

as Self

A Monkey's Tale

as Maître Flavius (Voice)

Ronin

as Jean-Pierre

Don Juan

as Don Luis

Let There Be Light!

as Monseigneur Loublié

5.8

Noise of Love and War

as The director

Mauvais Genre

as Honoré de Balzac

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

1997

as (voice)

La Plante Humaine

as Michel

Jefferson in Paris

as Louis XVI

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

as Dollabella

Vroum-vroum

Dieu sait quoi

as Narrator

The Remains of the Day

as Dupont D'Ivry

L'ordre du jour

as Stark

Woyzeck

as Le capitaine

My Life Is Hell

1991

as Gabriel

5.8

Seul face au crime

1991

as Procuratore

Out 1

1990

as Thomas

7.1

Film sur Georges Perec

1990

as Self

Souvenir

1989

as Xavier Lorion

5.5

Earthen Man

1989

as (voice)

Cela s'appelle l'amour

1989

as Self

5.0

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

1988

as Cammerschulze

6.5

Der Madonna-Mann

1987

as Tanzmann

The Name of the Rose

1986

as The Abbot

7.5

L'air d'aimer

1986

as Raymond

Rendez-vous manqués

1986

as Moralès

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

1986

as Self

6.5

The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey

1986

as Narrator

Emile Reynaud

1986

as Narrator

Billy Ze Kick

1985

as Commissaire Bellanger

4.8

The Holcroft Covenant

1985

as Ernst Manfredi

5.5

The Insomniac on the Bridge

as Antonie

Good King Dagobert

as Saint Eloi

The Judge

as Le docteur

The Colour of Words

as Self

Une jeunesse

1983

as Béjardy

Erendira

1983

as Senator Onésimo Sanchez

Chronopolis

as Narrator (voice)

The Boulugres

as Le roi (voice)

La Rényon lontan

1983

as Narrator (voice)

Sweet Inquest on Violence

1982

as Ash, the financier

Enigma

as Bodley

Trompe-l'oeil

as Self (voice)

Mersonne ne m'aime

1982

as Commissioner Bancau

Le rose et le blanc

1982

as Léon

Un paquebot dans la tête

1981

as Roland

The Bunker

as Martin Bormann

Alone

as Ludovic

The Games of Countess Dolingen

1981

as Bertrand Haines-Pearson

2.9

Jean-Sans-Terre

1980

as Jean Papeuil

Moonraker

1979

as Hugo Drax

6.2

Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été

1979

The Passage

1979

as Renoudot

6.1

The Left-Handed Woman

as The Waiter

The Risk of Living

as narrator

The Accuser

as Abéraud

Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible

A Dirty Story

as The voyeur

The Devil in the Box

as Georges Aubert

Mr. Klein

as Pierre

La nuit du beau marin peut-être?

1976

as Boris

Cygne II

1976

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

Scrambled Eggs

1976

as The President of the Republic

4.0

Les Écrans déchirés

1976

as Michael

Bartleby

1976

as L'Huissier

6.6

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert

1976

as The Vice Consul of Lahore

7.0

Galileo

1975

as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)

Aloïse

as le médecin

The Pink Telephone

as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding

4.5

The Romantic Englishwoman

as Swan

Né

as Self

Serious as Pleasure

as Inspecteur Fournier

Mad Enough to Kill

as Stephane Mostri

India Song

as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore

6.3

Special Section

1975

as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur

7.1

The Track

1975

as David Sutter

6.8

A Whale That Had a Toothache

as Le peintre

Stavisky...

as Docteur Mézy

Right to the city

as Narrator

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

as The Hatter

7.4

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974

as The Judge

6.1

La Grande Paulette

1974

as Paul

Caravan to Vaccarès

1974

as Duc de Croyter

5.1

Film sur Hans Bellmer

as Narrator

The Suspects

as Judge Souftries

No Pockets in a Shroud

1974

as Raymond

5.2

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

1974

as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate

4.9

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel

7.5

Out 1: Spectre

1973

as Thomas

6.6

The Girl with the Cello

1973

as Philippe Lariel

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons

1973

as Stéphane

3.8

Chut !

1972

as Sergel

There Once Was a Cop

1972

as Commissioner Lucas

The Old Maid

as Monod

Les Années Lumière

as Narrator (voice)

Autumn

1972

as Julien, le réalisateur

Murmur of the Heart

as Father Henri

Papa, the Lil' Boats

as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène

4.1

Law Breakers

1971

as Inspector Bertrand

Spring

as L'homme qui fuit

Jaune, Le Soleil

as Un juif

La Fenêtre

as Bracquemont

The Stud

1970

as Commissioner Donald Both

4.7

Un troisième

1970

as Le réalisateur

Le revolver et la rose

1970

as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky

Destroy, She Said

as Stein

The Nail Clippers

as Le mari

Hibernatus

as Edouard Loriebat

Winter

as Julien & Marc

Stolen Kisses

as Georges Tabard

The Bride Wore Black

as Morane

Concerto for an Exile

1968

as Un acteur au théâtre

5.6

The Man in the Buick

1968

as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.

The Big Wash

as Delaroche

Zoo Story

as Peter

Judoka-Secret Agent

1967

as Thomas Perkins

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

1967

as L'Avocat de la Défense

7.0

Order of the Daisy

1967

as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)

6.3

Is Paris Burning?

1966

as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)

7.2

Comédie

1966

as L'homme (M)

8.5

Your Money or Your Life

1966

as Speaker at the shy people's club

Hail! Mafia

as Hyman

The Buddies

as Lamendin

The Ghostly Rental

as Kernan

Behold a Pale Horse

as Reporter

Le Petit Nicolas

as The father

Jaloux comme un tigre

1964

as The grimacing motorist

2.0

The Little Misses

1964

as L'elève

The Trial

as Priest

Adorable Liar

as Albert

Snobs!

as Charles Dufaut

Crime Does Not Pay

as Acteur

The Immoral Moment

as Mercier

Le bureau des mariages

1962

The Door Slams

1960

as Georges

The Itchy Palm

1960

as Nobert

6.0

Les Trois Sœurs

1960

as Andreï Prodarov

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

It Happened in Aden

as Sinclair

Television (12)

Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe

2009

as Le Grand Loustalot

4.8

Le Silence de l'épervier

2008

as Antoine Carsac

Maigret

as Guillaume Serre

Le Tiroir secret

as Philippe Jolivet

Le Génie du faux

as Constantin Escher

Smiley's People

1982

as Anton Grigoriev

7.7

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

1974

as Smith

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

Out 1

as Thomas

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

1970

as Socrates

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Mora

1982

Writer

4.5