| Michael Lonsdale | |
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Michael Lonsdale at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival |
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| Born | 24 May 1931 Paris, France |
| Other names | Michel Lonsdale |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1956–present |
Michael Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows.
Lonsdale was raised by a French-Irish mother and an English father, initially in London and on Jersey, and later during the Second World War in Casablanca, Morocco.[1] 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.[1]
Lonsdale is bilingual and is in demand for English-language and French productions. He is 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 César Award, his first, as a best supporting actor in Of Gods and Men.
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | The Trial | Priest | |
| 1964 | Behold a Pale Horse | Reporter | |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? | Debu-Bridel | |
| 1968 | The Bride Wore Black | René Morane | |
| Stolen Kisses | Georges Tabard | ||
| 1969 | Détruire, dit-elle | ||
| Hibernatus | Professor Edouard Lauriebat | ||
| 1971 | Out 1 | Thomas | |
| Le Souffle au coeur | Father Henri | ||
| 1972 | Jaune le soleil | ||
| The Old Maid | |||
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Lebel | |
| 1974 | Successive Slidings of Pleasure | ||
| Stavisky | Docteur Mézy | by Alain Resnais | |
| Un linceul n'a pas de poches | Raymond | ||
| Le fantôme de la liberté | Le chapelier/Hatter | ||
| Caravan to Vaccares | Duc de Croyter | ||
| 1975 | Serious as Pleasure | ||
| India Song | Le vice-consul de Lahore | ||
| The Romantic Englishwoman | Swan | ||
| Section spéciale | Le ministre de l'intérieur | ||
| Aloïse | The second doctor | ||
| Galileo | Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII | ||
| 1976 | Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert | Récitant | (voice) |
| Mr. Klein | Pierre | ||
| Scrambled Eggs | |||
| 1977 | Une sale histoire | ||
| Jacques Prévert | Himself | ||
| 1978 | Bartleby | L'huissier | |
| Die Linkshändige Frau | The Waiter | ||
| 1979 | Moonraker | Hugo Drax | |
| 1980 | Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz | Bertrand Haines-Pearson | |
| Seuls | Le peintre | ||
| 1981 | The Bunker | Martin Bormann | |
| 1982 | Sweet Inquest on Violence | ||
| Mora | as writer | ||
| Smiley's People | Anton Grigoriev | ||
| 1983 | Eréndira | Senator Onésimo Sanchez | |
| Enigma | Bodley | ||
| 1984 | Le Bon Roi Dagobert | Saint Eloi | |
| 1985 | L'éveillé du Pont de l'Alma | Antoine | |
| The Holcroft Covenant | Ernst Manfredi | ||
| Billy Ze Kick | Commissaire Bellanger | ||
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | The Abbot | |
| 1988 | Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera | ||
| 1989 | Souvenir | Xavier Lorion | |
| 1991 | Ma vie est un enfer | Gabriel | |
| 1993 | Woyzeck | Le capitaine | |
| The Remains of the Day | Dupont D'Ivry | ||
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Louis XVI | |
| Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud | Dolabella | ||
| 1997 | Mauvais genre | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 1998 | Don Juan | Don Luis | |
| Let There Be Light | Monseigneur Loublié | ||
| Ronin | Jean-Pierre | ||
| 2000 | Les Acteurs | Man in the street | by Bertrand Blier |
| 2003 | Kaena: The Prophecy | Opaz | voice, French version |
| 2004 | 5x2 | Bernard | by François Ozon |
| 2005 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Robert | |
| Munich | Papa | ||
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Father Gregorio | |
| 2007 | The Last Mistress | Le vicomte de Prony | |
| Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine) |
Mathias Jüst | ||
| 2009 | Agora | Theon | |
| 2010 | Of Gods and Men | Luc | |
| 2012 | Gebo et l'Ombre | Gebo | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Mini-series | |
| 1991 | Maigret et la Grande Perche | Monsieur Serre | TV Series |
| 2001 | Maigret et la Croqueuse de Diamants | Sir Lampson | TV Series |