Personal Info
Birth date
1931-05-24 (94 Years)
Day of death
2020-09-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Paris, France
Also known as
Michel Lonsdale
Майкл Лонсдейл
Мишель Лонсдаль
Майкл Лонсдаль
Michael Lonsdale
Biography
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor and author. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Maigret
7.5
Overview:
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.Out 1
10
Overview:
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.Le Tiroir secret
3.5
Overview:
Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.Smiley's People
7.7
Overview:
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.The Day of the Jackal
7.5
Overview:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.Moonraker
6.175
Overview:
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.Munich
7.14
Overview:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.Ronin
6.967
Overview:
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.The Name of the Rose
7.491
Overview:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.Agora
6.999
Overview:
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.The Remains of the Day
7.367
Overview:
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.The Stud
4.9
Overview:
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...Hibernatus
6.718
Overview:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...Is Paris Burning?
7.171
Overview:
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.Stolen Kisses
7.308
Overview:
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.Mr. Klein
7.236
Overview:
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.The Trial
7.434
Overview:
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.Murmur of the Heart
7
Overview:
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.Goya's Ghosts
6.604
Overview:
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.The Phantom of Liberty
7.445
Overview:
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.Five Times Two
6.506
Overview:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.To Each His Own Cinema
6.5
Overview:
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.Acting
TBAWoyzeck as Le capitaine
2024African Glory as Unknown
2023The Outsider as Narrator (Voice)
2020Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self
2019Degas and I as Unknown
2019Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique as Narrator
2017Bazin's Film as Narrator
2016Sculpt as Unknown
2016The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited as Self
2016Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres as Self
2016The First, the Last as Jean-Berchmans
2016Les Filles au Moyen-Âge as Daniel
2015The Visit as Unknown
2014J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds as Unknown
2014N: The Madness Of Reason as Narrator
2014Maestro as Cedric Rovère
2014Rosenn as (voice)
2013Le Renard jaune as Jean Virno
2012Gebo and the Shadow as Gebo
2011Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux as Narrateur
2011The Cardboard Village as Old Priest
2011Free Men as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011Hitler in Hollywood as Michael Lonsdale
2011Titeuf as Le psy (voice)
2010Of Gods and Men as Luc
2009You'll Miss Me as Max
2009Agora as Theon
2009Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe (1 Episode) as Le Grand Loustalot
2008Le Silence de l'épervier (8 Episodes) as Antoine Carsac
2008Les amants cinéma as Self
2007To Each His Own Cinema as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
2007Heartbeat Detector as Mathias Jüst
2007Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure as Bartleby (voice)
2007The Last Mistress as le vicomte Prony
2007The Gift as Unknown
2006Les Mains d'Andréa as Unknown
2006Goya's Ghosts as Inquisitor General
2006Jeanne, à petits pas as Unknown
2005Munich as Papa
2005Gentille as Jean
2005The Separation as Paul Doumer
2005Bye Bye Blackbird as Robert
2005The Perfume of the Lady in Black as Le professeur Stangerson
2005Invisible as Le gardien
2004Under a False Name as David
2004Adieu as Serge
2004Five Times Two as Bernard
2003Le Furet as Don Salvadore
2003The Mystery of the Yellow Room as Stangerson
2003Kaena: The Prophecy as Opaz (voice)
2002Best Ever Bond as Hugo Drax (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002Le Mythe Cathare as Himself
2001Those Facing Us as Mikaël
2000Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète as Self
2000Speaking of Buñuel as Self
2000Inside 'Moonraker' as Self
2000Actors as Man walking down the street
2000Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein as Unknown
1999A Monkey's Tale as Maître Flavius (Voice)
1998Ronin as Jean-Pierre
1998Let There Be Light! as Monseigneur Loublié
1998Don Juan as Don Luis
1997Mauvais Genre as Honoré de Balzac
1997Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath as (voice)
1997Noise of Love and War as Unknown
1996La Plante Humaine as Unknown
1995Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud as Dollabella
1995Jefferson in Paris as Louis XVI
1995Vroum-vroum as Unknown
1994Dieu sait quoi as Narrator
1993The Remains of the Day as Dupont D'Ivry
1993L'ordre du jour as Stark
1991My Life Is Hell as Gabriel
1991Maigret (1 Episode) as Guillaume Serre
1991Seul face au crime as Procuratore
1990Out 1 as Thomas
1990Film sur Georges Perec as Self
1989Cela s'appelle l'amour as Unknown
1989Souvenir as Xavier Lorion
1989Earthen Man as (voice)
1988The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober as Cammerschulze
1987Der Madonna-Mann as Tanzmann
1986Le Tiroir secret (1 Episode) as Philippe Jolivet
1986The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
1986The Name of the Rose as The Abbot
1986Rendez-vous manqués as Moralès
1986L'air d'aimer as Raymond
1985Billy Ze Kick as Commissaire Bellanger
1985Le Génie du faux (4 Episodes) as Constantin Escher
1985The Insomniac on the Bridge as Antonie
1985The Holcroft Covenant as Ernst Manfredi
1984Good King Dagobert as Saint Eloi
1984The Colour of Words as Self
1984The Judge as Le docteur
1983Chronopolis as Narrator (voice)
1983Une jeunesse as Béjardy
1983Erendira as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1983The Boulugres as Le roi (voice)
1982Enigma as Bodley
1982Smiley's People (2, 6 Episode) as Unknown, Anton Grigoriev
1982Mersonne ne m'aime as Commissioner Bancau
1982Sweet Inquest on Violence as Ash, the financier
1982Le rose et le blanc as Léon
1982Trompe-l'oeil as (Voiceover)
1981Alone as Ludovic
1981The Games of Countess Dolingen as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
1981The Bunker as Martin Bormann
1981Un paquebot dans la tête as Roland
1980Jean-Sans-Terre as Jean Papeuil
1979Moonraker as Hugo Drax
1979The Passage as Renoudot
1979Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été as Unknown
1978The Left-Handed Woman as The Waiter
1978The Risk of Living as narrator
1977Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible as Unknown
1977A Dirty Story as Unknown
1977The Accuser as Abéraud
1977The Devil in the Box as Georges Aubert
1976Bartleby as L'Huissier
1976Mr. Klein as Pierre
1976Cygne II as Narrator (voice)
1976Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert as The Vice Consul of Lahore
1976Scrambled Eggs as The President of the Republic
1976La nuit du beau marin peut-être? as Boris
1976Les Écrans déchirés as Michael
1975Né as Unknown
1975The Pink Telephone as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
1975Mad Enough to Kill as Stephane Mostri
1975The Romantic Englishwoman as Swan
1975India Song as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
1975The Track as David Sutter
1975Special Section as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
1975A Whale That Had a Toothache as Le peintre
1975Aloïse as le médecin
1975Galileo as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
1975Serious as Pleasure as Inspecteur Fournier
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (3 Episodes) as Self
1974La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (1 Episode) as Smith
1974The Suspects as Judge Souftries
1974No Pockets in a Shroud as Raymond
1974The Phantom of Liberty as The Hatter
1974Caravan to Vaccarès as Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
1974The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
1974Stavisky... as Docteur Mézy
1974La grande Paulette as Unknown
1974Successive Slidings of Pleasure as The Judge
1974Right to the city as Narrator
1974Film sur Hans Bellmer as Narrator
1973Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons as Stéphane
1973The Girl with the Cello as Unknown
1973Out 1: Spectre as Thomas
1973The Day of the Jackal as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
1972Autumn as Julien, le réalisateur
1972Chut ! as Sergel
1972Les années Lumière as Unknown
1972There Once Was a Cop as Commissioner Lucas
1972Le Grand Échiquier (1 Episode) as Self
1972The Old Maid as Monod
1971Spring as L'homme qui fuit
1971Out 1 (8 Episodes) as Thomas
1971Law Breakers as Inspecteur Bertrand
1971Murmur of the Heart as Father Henri
1971Papa, the Lil' Boats as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
1971Jaune, Le Soleil as Un juif
1971Samedi soir (1 Episode) as Self
1970Le revolver et la rose as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
1970Un troisième as Le réalisateur
1970La Fenêtre as Bracquemont
1970The Stud as Commissioner Donald Both
1969Winter as Julien & Marc
1969Destroy, She Said as Stein
1969Hibernatus as Edouard Loriebat
1969The Nail Clippers as Le mari
1968The Big Wash as Delaroche
1968Stolen Kisses as Georges Tabard
1968The Bride Wore Black as Morane
1968The Man in the Buick as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
1968Concerto for an Exile as Un acteur au théâtre
1967The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung as L'Avocat de la Défense
1967Judoka-Secret Agent as Thomas Perkins
1967Order of the Daisy as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
1966Is Paris Burning? as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
1966Your Money or Your Life as Speaker at the shy people's club
1966Comédie as L'homme (M)
1965Hail! Mafia as Hyman
1965The Ghostly Rental as Kernan
1965The Buddies as Lamendin
1964The Little Misses as L'elève
1964Jaloux comme un tigre as un autre homme en voiture
1964Le petit Nicolas as The father
1962The Trial as Priest
1962Snobs! as Charles Dufaut
1962The Immoral Moment as Mercier
1962Crime Does Not Pay as Acteur
1962Le bureau des mariages as Unknown
1962Adorable Liar as Albert
1960The Door Slams as Georges
1960The Itchy Palm as Nobert
1960Les Trois Sœurs as Andreï Prodarov
1958A Bullet in the Gun Barrel as Unknown
1956It Happened in Aden as Sinclair
Writing
1982Mora ... Writer