Person Details

Birthday: 1931-05-24 02:09:23

Death: 2020-09-21 02:09:23

Aliases: Michel Lonsdale

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 109

TV Involvements: 8


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Lonsdale (May 24, 1931 – September 21, 2020), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, was 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 was bilingual and is in demand for English-language and French productions. He was 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.

Most Famous Work

Maigret
Average
8

Maigret

(1991) Guillaume Serre
Moonraker
Average
6

Moonraker

(1979) Hugo Drax
The Day of the Jackal
Average
8

The Day of the Jackal

(1973) Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Ronin
Average
7

Ronin

(1998) Jean-Pierre
The Name of the Rose
Average
8

The Name of the Rose

(1986) The Abbot
Munich
Average
7

Munich

(2005) Papa
Agora
Average
7

Agora

(2009) Theon
Chariots of Fire
Average
7

Chariots of Fire

(1981) Garth Jones (scenes deleted)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2020 Self
2019 N/A
Narrator
2017 Narrator
2016 Self
Self
Jean-Berchmans
Daniel
2015 N/A
2014 N/A
Narrator
Cedric Rovère
(voice)
2013 Jean Virno
2012 Gebo
2011 Narrateur
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
N/A
Michael Lonsdale
Le Psy
2010 Luc
2009 Max
Theon
Le Grand Loustalot
2008 Antoine Carsac
Self
2007 The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Mathias Jüst
Bartleby (voice)
le vicomte Prony
2006 N/A
Inquisitor General
N/A
2005 Papa
Jean
Paul Doumer
Robert
Le professeur Stangerson
Le gardien
2004 David
Serge
Bernard
2003 Don Salvadore
Stangerson
Opaz (french voice)
2002 Hugo Drax (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001 Mikaël
2000 Self
Self
Self
N/A
1999 Maître Flavius (Voice)
1998 Jean-Pierre
Monseigneur Loublié
Don Luis
1997 Honoré de Balzac
N/A
1996 N/A
1995 Dollabella
Louis XVI
N/A
1994 Narrator
1993 Dupont D'Ivry
Stark
1991 Gabriel
Guillaume Serre
1990 Self
1989 N/A
Xavier Lorion
(voice)
1988 Cammerschulze
1987 Tanzmann
1986 Philippe Jolivet
Self
The Abbot
Moralès
Raymond
1985 Constantin Escher
Antonie
Ernst Manfredi
1984 Saint Eloi
Self
Le docteur
1983 Narrator (voice)
Béjardy
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1982 Bodley
N/A
Anton Grigoriev
Commissioner Bancau
Ash, the financier
1981 Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Garth Jones (scenes deleted)
Martin Bormann
Ludovic
Roland
1980 Jean Papeuil
1979 Hugo Drax
Renoudot
1978 narrator
1977 N/A
The Waiter
Le réalisateur
Abéraud
Georges Aubert
1976 L'Huissier
Pierre
Narrator (voice)
The Vice Consul of Lahore
The President of the Republic
Boris
1975 N/A
M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Stephane Mostri
Swan
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
David Sutter
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Le peintre
le médecin
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Inspecteur Fournier
Self
1974 Le juge Souftries
Raymond
Le chapelier
Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Docteur Mézy
The Judge
Narrator
Narrator
Smith
1973 Stéphane
N/A
Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
1972 Thomas
Julien, le réalisateur
N/A
Commissioner Lucas
Self
N/A
Sergel
1971 Thomas
Thomas
Inspecteur Bertrand
Father Henri
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Un juif
Self
1970 Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
L'homme qui fuit
Bracquemont
le commissaire Donald Both
1969 Julien & Marc
Stein
Edouard Loriebat
Le mari
1968 Delaroche
Georges Tabard
Morane
L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Un acteur au théâtre
1967 L'Avocat de la Défense
Thomas Perkins
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voix)
1966 Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Le conférencier au club des timides
L'homme (M)
1965 Hyman
Kernan
Lamendin
1964 L'elève
un autre homme en voiture
The father
1962 Priest
Charles Dufaut
Mercier
Acteur
Albert
1960 Georges
Andreï Prodarov
1958 N/A
1956 Sinclair
Le capitaine
Narrator (Voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1982 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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