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Michael Edward Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a British-French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M. Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day.
Birth Name
Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch
Born
Sunday, 24 May 1931
Died
Monday, 21 September 2020
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Les filles au Moyen Âge | Daniel | 2016 |
| The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | 2016 |
| J.R.R.Tolkien, des mots, des mondes | (voice) | 2014 |
| Maestro | Cédric Rovère / Cedric Rovère | 2014 |
| Rosenn | (voice) | 2014 |
| N: The Madness of Reason | Narrator / Raymond Borremans | 2014 |
| Le renard jaune | Jean Virno | 2013 |
| Gebo and the Shadow | Gebo | 2012 |
| The Cardboard Village | Il vecchio prete | 2011 |
| Free Men | Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit | 2011 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Les filles au Moyen Âge | Daniel | 2016 |
| The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | 2016 |
| J.R.R.Tolkien, des mots, des mondes | (voice) | 2014 |
| Maestro | Cédric Rovère / Cedric Rovère | 2014 |
| Rosenn | (voice) | 2014 |
| N: The Madness of Reason | Narrator / Raymond Borremans | 2014 |
| Le renard jaune | Jean Virno | 2013 |
| Gebo and the Shadow | Gebo | 2012 |
| The Cardboard Village | Il vecchio prete | 2011 |
| Free Men | Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit | 2011 |
| Hitler in Hollywood | Michael Lonsdale | 2011 |
| Titeuf: The Movie | Le psy | 2011 |
| Of Gods and Men | Luc | 2010 |
| Agora | Theon | 2009 |
| Park Benches | Le client au paillasson | 2009 |
| Je vais te manquer | Max | 2009 |
| Hollywood contra Franco | Reporter | 2008 |
| Heartbeat Detector | Mathias Jüst | 2007 |
| The Last Mistress | Le vicomte de Prony / le vicomte Prony | 2007 |
| To Each His Own Cinema | The old blind man (segment "Le Don") | 2007 |
| Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure | Bartleby / Bartleby (Stimme franz. Fassung) | 2007 |
| Goya's Ghosts | Inquisitor General | 2006 |
| Munich | Papa | 2005 |
| Gentille | Jean | 2005 |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | Robert | 2005 |
| Le parfum de la dame en noir | Le professeur Stangerson | 2005 |
| Les invisibles | Le gardien | 2005 |
| Five Times Two | Bernard | 2004 |
| Adieu | Serge | 2004 |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Stangerson | 2003 |
| Kaena: The Prophecy | Opaz / Opaz (voice: French version) | 2003 |
| Best Ever Bond | Hugo Drax | 2002 |
| Actors | L'homme qui marche dans la rue / Self | 2000 |
| Inside 'Moonraker' | Self | 2000 |
| Le château des singes | Master Martin / Maître Flavius (Voice) | 1999 |
| Ronin | Jean-Pierre | 1998 |
| Let There Be Light | Monseigneur Loublié | 1998 |
| Don Juan | Don Luis | 1998 |
| Mauvais genre | Honoré de Balzac | 1997 |
| Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud | Dolabella / Dollabella | 1996 |
| In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross | Drax | 1995 |
| Jefferson in Paris | Louis XVI | 1995 |
| God Only Knows | Narrator / Récitant | 1994 |
| The Remains of the Day | Dupont D'Ivry | 1993 |
| My Life Is Hell | Gabriel | 1991 |
| Maigret | Monsieur Serre, Sir Lampson | 1991 |
| Souvenir | Xavier Lorion | 1988 |
| Riviera | Detective Dubois | 1987 |
| The Name of the Rose | Der Abt / The Abbot | 1986 |
| The Holcroft Covenant | Ernst Manfredi | 1985 |
| Le bon roi Dagobert | Saint Eloi | 1984 |
| La couleur des mots | Self / Himself | 1984 |
| The Judge | Le Docteur | 1984 |
| Eréndira | Senator Onésimo Sanchez | 1983 |
| Sweet Inquest on Violence | Ash, le financier | 1982 |
| Smiley's People | Anton Grigoriev | 1982 |
| Enigma | Bodley | 1982 |
| The Games of Countess Dolingen | Bertrand Haines-Pearson | 1982 |
| Chariots of Fire | Garth Jones | 1981 |
| The Bunker | Martin Bormann | 1981 |
| Moonraker | Hugo Drax | 1979 |
| The Passage | Renoudot / Alain Renoudot | 1979 |
| The Left-Handed Woman | Kellner | 1978 |
| Mr. Klein | Pierre | 1976 |
| The Pink Telephone | Morrison | 1975 |
| Mad Enough to Kill | Stéphane Mostri / Stephane Mostri | 1975 |
| The Romantic Englishwoman | Swan | 1975 |
| India Song | Le vice-consul de Lahore | 1975 |
| Special Section | Pierre Pucheu, le ministre de l'Intérieur / Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur | 1975 |
| Galileo | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) | 1975 |
| Serious as Pleasure | L'inspecteur Fournier / Inspecteur Fournier | 1975 |
| The Suspects | Le juge Souftries | 1974 |
| The Phantom of Liberty | Hatter / Le chapelier | 1974 |
| Caravan to Vaccares | Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale) / Duc de Croyter | 1974 |
| Stavisky | Docteur Mézy | 1974 |
| Successive Slidings of Pleasure | Le magistrat instructeur / The Judge | 1974 |
| Film sur Hans Bellmer | Narrator | 1974 |
| Big Sentiments Make for Good Sports | Stéphane | 1973 |
| The Day of the Jackal | Lebel / Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel | 1973 |
| Cops Is Cops | Le commissaire Lucas | 1972 |
| The Old Maid | Monod | 1972 |
| Out 1: Spectre | Thomas | 1972 |
| Papa, the Lil' Boats | Hippolyte the brother of Marylène / Hippolyte the brother of Marylène (as Michel Lonsdale) | 1971 |
| Out 1 | Thomas | 1971 |
| Law Breakers | Inspecteur Bertrand | 1971 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Father Henri | 1971 |
| Le printemps | L'homme qui fuit | 1971 |
| L'hiver | Julien & Marc | 1969 |
| Hibernatus | Le professeur Édouard Loriebat / Edouard Loriebat | 1969 |
| La pince à ongles | Le mari | 1969 |
| Stolen Kisses | Georges Tabard | 1968 |
| The Bride Wore Black | Morane / Rene Morane | 1968 |
| The Man in the Buick | L'inspecteur / The inspector | 1968 |
| Concerto for an Exile | Un acteur au théâtre | 1968 |
| The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung | Defense / Un avocat | 1967 |
| Les compagnons de la marguerite | Lataque, expert en écritures / Lastac / La voix du juge d'instruction / Le juge (voice) | 1967 |
| Is Paris Burning? | Debu-Bridel | 1966 |
| Your Money or Your Life | Le conférencier au club des timides | 1966 |
| Hail, Mafia | Hyman | 1965 |
| Les copains | Lamenbin / Lamendin | 1965 |
| Jaloux comme un tigre | L'automobiliste qui grimace / un autre homme en voiture | 1964 |
| Behold a Pale Horse | Reporter | 1964 |
| Les petites demoiselles | L'Elève | 1964 |
| The Trial | Priest | 1962 |
| Snobs! | Charles Dufaut | 1962 |
| The Immoral Moment | Mercier | 1962 |
| Crime Does Not Pay | Acteur / L'employé de la morgue (segment "L'homme de l'avenue") | 1962 |
| Adorable menteuse | Albert | 1962 |
| The Door Slams | Georges Hortegrenave / Georges | 1960 |
| The Itchy Palm | Nobert | 1960 |
| A Bullet in the Gun Barrel | (as Michel Lonsdale) | 1958 |
