Michael Lonsdale

Known for ActingBorn 1931-05-24Died 2020-09-21Paris, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Outsider

Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres

Earthen Man

The Boulugres

Mersonne ne m'aime

Le rose et le blanc

Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été

Né

Out 1

Le revolver et la rose

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Seul face au crime

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

Le Génie du faux

The Colour of Words

Un paquebot dans la tête

Jean-Sans-Terre

Les Écrans déchirés

La Fenêtre

La Plante Humaine

Comédie

Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein

Noise of Love and War

Rendez-vous manqués

Le Grand Échiquier

Maigret

Degas and I

Zoo Story

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Smiley's People

Winter

The Name of the Rose

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

The Ghostly Rental

Adieu

The Remains of the Day

The Day of the Jackal

Autumn

The Phantom of Liberty

Munich

Bazin's Film

The Itchy Palm

Agora

Mora

Hail! Mafia

The Separation

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

The Trial