
Michael Lonsdale
Born May 24, 1931 · Paris, France
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 of the Day (1993). Lonsdale was born in Paris, the natural son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale Crouch and Simone Calderon (née Béraud). He was brought up initially on the island of Jersey, then in London from 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco. He returned to Paris to study painting in 1947, but was drawn into the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24. Lonsdale was bilingual, and appeared in both English-language and French-language productions. He appeared in a starring role with Roger Moore in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. and with Sean Connery, in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose. He would later appear in Munich (2005), a film that also starred another Bond, Daniel Craig. In February 2011, he won a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Of Gods and Men. Lonsdale was also the author of ten books. A practising Roman Catholic, he was close to the Emmanuel Community. In his 2016 memoir Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie, Lonsdale revealed he had fallen for Delphine Seyrig, having met her as a student in Tania Balachova's acting classes at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1947. He wrote that "it was her or nothing", which was why he never married. Lonsdale died in Paris on 21 September 2020, aged 89. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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To Each His Own Cinema

Murmur of the Heart

Goya's Ghosts

The Bride Wore Black

The Trial

The Phantom of Liberty

Jefferson in Paris

Of Gods and Men

Actors

Mr. Klein

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Hibernatus

A Monkey's Tale

The Man from London

Behold a Pale Horse

The Bunker

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

There Once Was a Cop

The Passage

Stavisky...

Hitler in Hollywood

The Last Mistress

Five Times Two

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Film sur Georges Perec

Enigma

Good King Dagobert

My Life Is Hell

The Romantic Englishwoman

Kaena: The Prophecy

The First, the Last

The Holcroft Covenant

Inside 'Moonraker'

Gebo and the Shadow

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Spring

Don Juan

Erendira

Under a False Name

Free Men

Serious as Pleasure

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

The Man in the Buick

The Games of Countess Dolingen

Your Money or Your Life

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Speaking of Buñuel

No Pockets in a Shroud

Adieu

Né

The Life of Mirrors

The Boulugres

Crime Does Not Pay

India Song

Out 1

Mauvais Genre

Maestro

Papa, the Lil' Boats

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

The Suspects

The Devil in the Box

You'll Miss Me

It Happened in Aden

The Buddies

Jaloux comme un tigre

Law Breakers

Le rose et le blanc

Sculpt

The Old Maid

The Cardboard Village

Emile Reynaud

Cygne II

Titeuf

Winter

Bartleby

Let There Be Light!

Order of the Daisy

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Mersonne ne m'aime

Galileo

Autumn

Gentille

Special Section

Woyzeck

Souvenir

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Le Furet

La Fenêtre

Hail! Mafia

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

Aloïse

The Insomniac on the Bridge

Le revolver et la rose

Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure

Out 1: Spectre

Mad Enough to Kill

Rosenn

The Separation

The Accuser

The Stud

The Nail Clippers

Right to the city

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons

Alone

Heartbeat Detector

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert

Degas and I

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

The Left-Handed Woman

Caravan to Vaccarès

The Pink Telephone

Noise of Love and War

Le Renard jaune

Chronopolis

Un paquebot dans la tête

Judoka-Secret Agent

The Ghostly Rental

Der Madonna-Mann

Those Facing Us

Earthen Man

The Track

Film sur Hans Bellmer

The Door Slams

The Girl with the Cello

Concerto for an Exile

Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

A Dirty Story

Chut !

A Whale That Had a Toothache

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

Adorable Liar

The Judge

Invisible

The Immoral Moment

Jaune, Le Soleil

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

Scrambled Eggs

The Risk of Living

La Grande Paulette

The Itchy Palm

Bye Bye Blackbird

The Big Wash

Sweet Inquest on Violence

L'air d'aimer

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

Les Trois Sœurs

L'ordre du jour

The Outsider

Destroy, She Said

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey

Dieu sait quoi

Snobs!

Trompe-l'oeil

Billy Ze Kick

Bazin's Film

Jeanne, à petits pas

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

Les Années Lumière

The Little Misses

Une jeunesse

Le Petit Nicolas

N: The Madness Of Reason

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

Le Mythe Cathare

The Visit

Comédie

Un troisième

La Plante Humaine

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