Michael Lonsdale

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Michael Lonsdale

Born	May 24, 1931 (1931-05-24) (age 77) Paris, Île-de-France, France
Other name(s)	Michel Lonsdale
Years active	1956 - present

Michael Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale (May 24, 1931, in Paris) is an Anglo-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. He is perhaps best known for his role as the villainous Sir Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, or possibly the astute French detective Lebel who brought down the "Jackal" in The Day of the Jackal. Lonsdale also notably played the abbot in The Name of the Rose, a mysterious rescuer of Robert De Niro in Ronin (in which he also starred with Bond villain actors Sean Bean and Jonathan Pryce) and most recently the father of Louis in Steven Spielberg's Munich. A Frenchman of British descent, Lonsdale is perfectly bilingual and is often in demand for English-language productions.

[edit] Selected Filmography

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