Michael Lonsdale

Actor

Born: May 24, 1931
Died: September 21, 2020 (age 89)
From: 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…

Filmography (196)

The Life of Mirrors (2025)
African Glory (2024)
Christopher Columbus
The Outsider (2023)
Narrator (Voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022)
Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020)
Self
Degas and I (2019)
Edgar Degas
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique (2019)
Narrator
Bazin's Film (2017)
Narrator
Sculpt (2016)
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016)
Self
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres (2016)
Self
The First, the Last (2016)
Jean-Berchmans
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge (2016)
Daniel
The Visit (2015)
Self
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds (2014)
(voice)
N: The Madness Of Reason (2014)
Narrator
Maestro (2014)
Cedric Rovère
Rosenn (2014)
(voice)
Le Renard jaune (2013)
Jean Virno
Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Gebo
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux (2011)
Narrateur
The Cardboard Village (2011)
Old Priest
Free Men (2011)
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Hitler in Hollywood (2011)
Michael Lonsdale
Titeuf (2011)
Le psy (voice)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Luc
You'll Miss Me (2009)
Max
Agora (2009)
Theon
The Man from London (2008)
Kocsmáros (voice)
Les amants cinéma
Les amants cinéma (2008)
Self