Cast

Michael Lonsdale

Acting

Cast

Michael Lonsdale

Known for

Acting

Born

1931-05-24

From

Paris, France

Died

2020-09-21

Also known as Michel Lonsdale, Майкл Лонсдейл, Мишель Лонсдаль

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 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.

Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale

Biography

Moonraker

The Name of the Rose

The Day of the Jackal

Munich

Agora

Ronin

Actors

Erendira

Hitler in Hollywood

Stavisky...

Murmur of the Heart

The Stud

The Remains of the Day

Is Paris Burning?

Cela s'appelle l'amour

The Old Maid

Mr. Klein

Goya's Ghosts

Hibernatus

The Phantom of Liberty

Un paquebot dans la tête

Film sur Georges Perec

Maestro

The Separation

Stolen Kisses

Adieu

Jefferson in Paris

The Trial

The Man in the Buick

A Monkey's Tale

Mad Enough to Kill

Les Écrans déchirés

Rosenn

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

The Boulugres

Souvenir

Sculpt

Le Furet

Inside 'Moonraker'

The Last Mistress

Right to the city

Les amants cinéma

Good King Dagobert

Your Money or Your Life

Né

Of Gods and Men

The Holcroft Covenant

Free Men

Enigma

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

Jaloux comme un tigre

Gentille

Five Times Two

Alone

Speaking of Buñuel

Chronopolis

Behold a Pale Horse

Degas and I

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

A Dirty Story

The First, the Last

To Each His Own Cinema

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

India Song

The Left-Handed Woman

The Bride Wore Black

Les Trois Sœurs

There Once Was a Cop

The Passage

Serious as Pleasure

Bartleby

Winter

Under a False Name

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

The Bunker