Michael Lonsdale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. Lonsdale was raised by an Irish mother and an English father, initially in London and on Jersey, and later during the Second World War in Casablanca, Morocco. He moved to Paris to study painting in 1947 but was drawn in to the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24. Lonsdale is bilingual and is in demand for English-language and French productions. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villainous Sir Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, the astute French detective Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day. On 25 February 2011, he won a Caesar award, his first, as a best supporting actor in Of Gods and Men. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 24, 1931 In Paris, France
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 156
- First Appeared:
- In the movie A Bullet in the Gun Barrel 1958-11-19
- Latest Project:
- Movie An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose 2022-07-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose | Self (archive footage) | 2022-07-25 |
| Movie | Degas and I | Edgar Degas | 2019-10-30 |
| Movie | Bazin's Film | Narrator | 2017-10-20 |
| Movie | Les Filles au Moyen-Âge | Daniel | 2016-01-27 |
| Movie | Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres | Self | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | 2016-01-27 |
| Movie | Rosenn | (voice) | 2014-03-12 |
| Movie | Maestro | Cedric Rovère | 2014-07-23 |
| Movie | J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds | (voice) | 2014-12-02 |
| Movie | N: The Madness Of Reason | Narrator | 2014-11-08 |
| Movie | Le Renard jaune | Jean Virno | 2013-06-26 |
| Movie | Gebo and the Shadow | Gebo | 2012-09-10 |
| Movie | Titeuf | Le psy (voice) | 2011-04-06 |
| Movie | Hitler in Hollywood | Michael Lonsdale | 2011-05-04 |
| Movie | The Cardboard Village | Old Priest | 2011-10-07 |
| Movie | Free Men | Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit | 2011-09-28 |
| Movie | Of Gods and Men | Luc | 2010-09-08 |
| Movie | Agora | Theon | 2009-05-17 |
| Movie | You'll Miss Me | Max | 2009-06-10 |
| Movie | Les amants cinéma | Self | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | The Last Mistress | le vicomte Prony | 2007-05-30 |
| Movie | Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure | Bartleby (voice) | 2007-07-29 |
| Movie | Heartbeat Detector | Mathias Jüst | 2007-09-12 |
| Movie | To Each His Own Cinema | The old blind man (segment "Le Don") | 2007-10-31 |
| Movie | Goya's Ghosts | Inquisitor General | 2006-11-08 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Blackbird | Robert | 2005-10-14 |
| Movie | The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Le professeur Stangerson | 2005-09-14 |
| Movie | Invisible | Le gardien | 2005-06-15 |
| Movie | The Separation | Paul Doumer | 2005-12-02 |
| Movie | Gentille | Jean | 2005-12-14 |
| Movie | Munich | Papa | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Five Times Two | Bernard | 2004-09-01 |
| Movie | Adieu | Serge | 2004-09-08 |
| Movie | Under a False Name | David | 2004-11-10 |
| Movie | Kaena: The Prophecy | Opaz (voice) | 2003-06-04 |
| Movie | Le Furet | Don Salvadore | 2003-10-29 |
| Movie | The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Stangerson | 2003-06-11 |
| Movie | Best Ever Bond | Hugo Drax (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-22 |
| Movie | Those Facing Us | Mikaël | 2001-09-26 |
| Movie | Inside 'Moonraker' | Self | 2000-05-16 |
| Movie | Actors | Man walking down the street | 2000-04-05 |
| Movie | Speaking of Buñuel | Self | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | Don Juan | Don Luis | 1998-04-28 |
| Movie | Let There Be Light! | Monseigneur Loublié | 1998-07-08 |
| Movie | Ronin | Jean-Pierre | 1998-09-25 |
| Movie | Noise of Love and War | The director | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath | (voice) | 1997-05-14 |
| Movie | Mauvais Genre | Honoré de Balzac | 1997-05-27 |
| Movie | La Plante Humaine | Michel | 1996-02-22 |
| Movie | Jefferson in Paris | Louis XVI | 1995-03-31 |
| Movie | Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud | Dollabella | 1995-10-18 |
| Movie | Dieu sait quoi | Narrator | 1994-08-04 |
| Movie | The Remains of the Day | Dupont D'Ivry | 1993-11-05 |
| Movie | L'ordre du jour | Stark | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Seul face au crime | Procuratore | 1991-01-30 |
| Movie | My Life Is Hell | Gabriel | 1991-12-04 |
| Movie | Out 1 | Thomas | 1990-12-15 |
| Movie | Souvenir | Xavier Lorion | 1989-01-06 |
| Movie | Cela s'appelle l'amour | Self | 1989-10-25 |
| Movie | The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | Cammerschulze | 1988-12-26 |
| Movie | Der Madonna-Mann | Tanzmann | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | L'air d'aimer | Raymond | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Rendez-vous manqués | Moralès | 1986-07-30 |
| Movie | The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' | Self | 1986-10-11 |
| Movie | The Name of the Rose | The Abbot | 1986-09-24 |
| Movie | The Holcroft Covenant | Ernst Manfredi | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Billy Ze Kick | Commissaire Bellanger | 1985-12-18 |
| Movie | The Insomniac on the Bridge | Antonie | 1985-10-02 |
| Movie | The Colour of Words | Self | 1984-06-12 |
| Movie | The Judge | Le docteur | 1984-04-11 |
| Movie | Good King Dagobert | Saint Eloi | 1984-08-22 |
| Movie | Erendira | Senator Onésimo Sanchez | 1983-06-01 |
| Movie | Une jeunesse | Béjardy | 1983-06-15 |
| Movie | Chronopolis | Narrator (voice) | 1983-09-21 |
| Movie | Mersonne ne m'aime | Commissioner Bancau | 1982-06-26 |
| Movie | Sweet Inquest on Violence | Ash, the financier | 1982-06-04 |
| Series | Smiley's People | Anton Grigoriev | 1982-09-20 |
| Movie | Enigma | Bodley | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | Chariots of Fire | Garth Jones (scenes deleted) | 1981-05-15 |
| Movie | The Bunker | Martin Bormann | 1981-04-15 |
| Movie | Alone | Ludovic | 1981-10-07 |
| Movie | The Games of Countess Dolingen | Bertrand Haines-Pearson | 1981-09-01 |
| Movie | The Passage | Renoudot | 1979-03-09 |
| Movie | Moonraker | Hugo Drax | 1979-06-26 |
| Movie | The Risk of Living | narrator | 1978-04-18 |
| Movie | The Left-Handed Woman | The Waiter | 1978-05-26 |
| Movie | The Devil in the Box | Georges Aubert | 1977-04-19 |
| Movie | The Accuser | Abéraud | 1977-09-07 |
| Movie | A Dirty Story | The voyeur | 1977-11-09 |
| Movie | Scrambled Eggs | The President of the Republic | 1976-03-30 |
| Movie | Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert | The Vice Consul of Lahore | 1976-06-02 |
| Movie | Les Écrans déchirés | Michael | 1976-01-01 |
| Movie | Mr. Klein | Pierre | 1976-09-23 |
| Movie | Bartleby | L'Huissier | 1976-12-16 |
| Movie | A Whale That Had a Toothache | Le peintre | 1975-04-15 |
| Movie | Aloïse | le médecin | 1975-04-02 |
| Movie | Serious as Pleasure | Inspecteur Fournier | 1975-01-15 |
| Movie | Special Section | Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur | 1975-04-23 |
| Movie | Galileo | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) | 1975-01-27 |
| Movie | Né | Self | 1975-11-05 |
| Movie | The Track | David Sutter | 1975-05-14 |
| Movie | Mad Enough to Kill | Stephane Mostri | 1975-08-20 |
| Movie | The Pink Telephone | M. Morrison, président de la Fielding | 1975-10-15 |
| Movie | India Song | Le Vice-Consul de Lahore | 1975-06-04 |
| Movie | The Romantic Englishwoman | Swan | 1975-06-11 |
| Movie | Stavisky... | Docteur Mézy | 1974-05-15 |
| Movie | Successive Slidings of Pleasure | The Judge | 1974-03-07 |
| Movie | Film sur Hans Bellmer | Narrator | 1974-01-01 |
| Movie | The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown | Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate | 1974-05-20 |
| Movie | No Pockets in a Shroud | Raymond | 1974-10-25 |
| Movie | The Suspects | Judge Souftries | 1974-11-27 |
| Movie | The Phantom of Liberty | The Hatter | 1974-09-10 |
| Movie | Caravan to Vaccarès | Duc de Croyter | 1974-08-08 |
| Movie | Out 1: Spectre | Thomas | 1973-06-30 |
| Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel | 1973-05-16 |
| Movie | Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons | Stéphane | 1973-12-12 |
| Movie | The Old Maid | Monod | 1972-01-05 |
| Movie | There Once Was a Cop | Commissioner Lucas | 1972-02-11 |
| Movie | Autumn | Julien, le réalisateur | 1972-07-05 |
| Movie | Chut ! | Sergel | 1972-03-23 |
| Movie | Papa, the Lil' Boats | Hippolyte the brother of Marylène | 1971-04-22 |
| Movie | Murmur of the Heart | Father Henri | 1971-04-27 |
| Movie | Jaune, Le Soleil | Un juif | 1971-02-16 |
| Movie | Law Breakers | Inspector Bertrand | 1971-05-07 |
| Movie | Spring | L'homme qui fuit | 1971-10-27 |
| Movie | La Fenêtre | Bracquemont | 1970-08-02 |
| Movie | The Stud | Commissioner Donald Both | 1970-02-13 |
| Movie | Un troisième | Le réalisateur | 1970-09-16 |
| Movie | Le revolver et la rose | Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky | 1970-11-25 |
| Movie | Hibernatus | Edouard Loriebat | 1969-09-10 |
| Movie | The Nail Clippers | Le mari | 1969-01-08 |
| Movie | Destroy, She Said | Stein | 1969-09-25 |
| Movie | Winter | Julien & Marc | 1969-12-31 |
| Movie | The Man in the Buick | L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J. | 1968-01-12 |
| Movie | Concerto for an Exile | Un acteur au théâtre | 1968-01-02 |
| Movie | The Bride Wore Black | Morane | 1968-03-22 |
| Movie | Stolen Kisses | Georges Tabard | 1968-09-04 |
| Movie | The Big Wash | Delaroche | 1968-11-12 |
| Movie | Order of the Daisy | Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice) | 1967-01-20 |
| Movie | Judoka-Secret Agent | Thomas Perkins | 1967-07-24 |
| Movie | The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung | L'Avocat de la Défense | 1967-12-27 |
| Movie | Your Money or Your Life | Speaker at the shy people's club | 1966-04-26 |
| Movie | Is Paris Burning? | Debu-Bridel (uncredited) | 1966-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ghostly Rental | Kernan | 1965-04-17 |
| Movie | The Buddies | Lamendin | 1965-01-15 |
| Movie | Hail! Mafia | Hyman | 1965-08-10 |
| Movie | Jaloux comme un tigre | The grimacing motorist | 1964-06-16 |
| Movie | The Little Misses | L'elève | 1964-07-14 |
| Movie | Behold a Pale Horse | Reporter | 1964-08-14 |
| Movie | Adorable Liar | Albert | 1962-02-02 |
| Movie | Crime Does Not Pay | Acteur | 1962-07-06 |
| Movie | The Trial | Priest | 1962-08-25 |
| Movie | The Immoral Moment | Mercier | 1962-07-18 |
| Movie | Snobs! | Charles Dufaut | 1962-09-05 |
| Movie | The Door Slams | Georges | 1960-12-21 |
| Movie | A Bullet in the Gun Barrel | 1958-11-19 |