Michael Lonsdale

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Michael Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931) is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows.

Lonsdale was born in Paris to a French mother and an English father. Lonsdale is perfectly bilingual and is often in demand for English-language productions. He is best known for his role 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. Michael Lonsdale has worked with three of the six James Bond actors. Roger Moore in Moonraker (film) (1979), Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Daniel Craig in Munich (film) (2005).

Filmography

• The Trial (1962) - Priest
• Behold a Pale Horse (1964) - Reporter
• Is Paris Burning? (1966) - Debu-Bridel
• The Bride Wore Black (1968) - René Morane
• Stolen Kisses (1968) - Georges Tabard
• Détruire, dit-elle (1969)
• Hibernatus (1969)
• Out 1 (1971) - Thomas
• Le Souffle au coeur (1971) - Father Henri
• Jaune le soleil (1972)
• The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Lebel
• Stavisky (1974, by Alain Resnais) - Docteur Mézy
• Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974) - Raymond
• Le fantôme de la liberté (1974) - Le chapelier/Hatter
• Caravan to Vaccares (1974) - Duc de Croyter
• India Song (1975) - Le vice-consul de Lahore
• The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) - Swan
• Section spéciale (1975) - Le ministre de l'intérieur
• Aloïse (1975) - The second doctor
• Galileo (1975) - Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII
• Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976) - Récitant (voice)
• Mr. Klein (1976) - Pierre
• Une sale histoire (1977)
• Jacques Prévert (1977) - Himself
• Bartleby (1978) - L'huissier
• Die Linkshändige Frau (1978) - The Waiter
• Moonraker (1979) - Hugo Drax
• Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz (1980) - Bertrand Haines-Pearson
• Seuls (1980) - Le peintre
• The Bunker (1981) - Martin Bormann
• Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982)
• Mora (1982) - as writer
• Smiley's People (1982) - Anton Grigoriev
• Eréndira (1983) - Senator Onésimo Sanchez
• Enigma (1983) - Bodley
• Le Bon Roi Dagobert (1984) - Saint Eloi
• L'éveillé du Pont de l'Alma (1985) - Antoine
• The Holcroft Covenant (1985) - Ernst Manfredi
• Billy Ze Kick (1985) - Commissaire Bellanger
• The Name of the Rose (1986) - The Abbot
• Le Tiroir secret (1986) TV mini-series
• Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera (1988)
• Souvenir (1989) - Xavier Lorion
• Ma vie est un enfer (1991) - Gabriel
• Woyzeck (1993) - Le capitaine
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• Jefferson in Paris (1995) - Louis XVI
• Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995) - Dolabella
• Mauvais genre (1997) - Honoré de Balzac
• Don Juan (1998) - Don Luis
• Let There Be Light (1998) - Monseigneur Loublié
• Ronin (1998) - Jean-Pierre
• Les Acteurs (2000, by Bertrand Blier) - Man in the street
• Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) - Opaz (voice: French version)
• 5x2 (2004, by François Ozon) - Bernard
• Bye Bye Blackbird (2005) - Robert
• Munich (2005) - Papa
• Goya's Ghosts (2006) - Father Gregorio
• The Last Mistress (2007) - Le vicomte de Prony
• Agora (2009) - Theon

External links

• Michael Lonsdale at the Internet Movie Database