
Michael Lonsdale
Known for: Acting
Born: May 24, 1931
Died: September 21, 2020
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
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980

Right to the city
1974
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976

There Once Was a Cop
1972

The Cardboard Village
2011

Gebo and the Shadow
2012

Le revolver et la rose
1970

The Nail Clippers
1969

Cygne II
1976

Le Renard jaune
2013

The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981

Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982

Spring
1971

Dieu sait quoi
1994

The Girl with the Cello
1973

A Dirty Story
1977

N: The Madness Of Reason
2014

The Outsider
2023

Those Facing Us
2001

Chronopolis
1983

La Grande Paulette
1974

Trompe-l'oeil
1982

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016

Autumn
1972

The Risk of Living
1978

The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989

Noise of Love and War
1997

La Plante Humaine
1996

L'air d'aimer
1986

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014

Bazin's Film
2017

Né
1975

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

Degas and I
2019

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019

La Fenêtre
1970

Mersonne ne m'aime
1982

African Glory
2024

Le Mythe Cathare
2002
Le bureau des mariages
1962

La Rényon lontan
1983
Zoo Story
1968

Emile Reynaud
1986

The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
Les amants cinéma
2008

Heartbeat Detector
2007

Of Gods and Men
2010

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976

Destroy, She Said
1969

Free Men
2011

India Song
1975

Special Section
1975

Les Années Lumière
1972

Adieu
2004

Kaena: The Prophecy
2003

Maestro
2014

Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974

Winter
1969

Bartleby
1976
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988

Chut !
1972

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967

L'ordre du jour
1993
Vroum-vroum
1995

Comédie
1966

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981

The Visit
2015

The Separation
2005

The Boulugres
1983
Les Écrans déchirés
1976

Moonraker
1979

Film sur Georges Perec
1990

Invisible
2005

Woyzeck
1993

Le Furet
2003

Jeanne, à petits pas
2006

The Track
1975

Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974

Gentille
2005

Snobs!
1962

Le Petit Nicolas
1964

Crime Does Not Pay
1962

Erendira
1983

Caravan to Vaccarès
1974

Der Madonna-Mann
1987

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973

The Devil in the Box
1977

Souvenir
1989

Alone
1981

The Ghostly Rental
1965

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016

Sculpt
2016

Le rose et le blanc
1982

Stolen Kisses
1968

The Door Slams
1960

The Old Maid
1972

Five Times Two
2004

The Romantic Englishwoman
1975

Stavisky...
1974

Aloïse
1975

Scrambled Eggs
1976

The First, the Last
2016

Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971

The Left-Handed Woman
1978
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006

The Name of the Rose
1986

Enigma
1982

Agora
2009

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995

The Suspects
1974

The Bunker
1981

Les Trois Sœurs
1960

The Pink Telephone
1975

Mauvais Genre
1997

The Big Wash
1968

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016

Out 1: Spectre
1973

Bye Bye Blackbird
2005

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974

Jaune, Le Soleil
1971

Hitler in Hollywood
2011

Jaloux comme un tigre
1964

Mad Enough to Kill
1975

Judoka-Secret Agent
1967

A Monkey's Tale
1999

Une jeunesse
1983

The Last Mistress
2007

The Bride Wore Black
1968

Murmur of the Heart
1971

The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005

Good King Dagobert
1984

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

Hail! Mafia
1965

The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003

The Judge
1984

The Accuser
1977

The Itchy Palm
1960

Goya's Ghosts
2006

The Holcroft Covenant
1985

Concerto for an Exile
1968
The Colour of Words
1984

A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975

The Stud
1970

Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977

Under a False Name
2004

The Buddies
1965

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000

Your Money or Your Life
1966

Don Juan
1998

You'll Miss Me
2009

Earthen Man
1989

Hibernatus
1969

Ronin
1998

Titeuf
2011

The Passage
1979

Un troisième
1970

Out 1
1990

Mr. Klein
1976

The Little Misses
1964

Rosenn
2014

Munich
2005

The Day of the Jackal
1973

Adorable Liar
1962

Galileo
1975

Jefferson in Paris
1995

Billy Ze Kick
1985

The Remains of the Day
1993
Seul face au crime
1991

The Life of Mirrors
2025

The Man in the Buick
1968

The Immoral Moment
1962

Serious as Pleasure
1975

Inside 'Moonraker'
2000

My Life Is Hell
1991

Order of the Daisy
1967
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986

The Phantom of Liberty
1974

It Happened in Aden
1956

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007

Law Breakers
1971

Actors
2000

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958

Speaking of Buñuel
2000

Let There Be Light!
1998

Behold a Pale Horse
1964

The Trial
1962
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022

To Each His Own Cinema
2007

Is Paris Burning?
1966

Le Génie du faux
1985

Maigret
1991

Out 1
1971

Le Tiroir secret
1986

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
Samedi soir
1971

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009

La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974

Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970

Smiley's People
1982