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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 born in Paris and raised by a French mother and an English father, initially on the island of Guernsey, then in London in 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco. He moved to Paris to study painting in 1947 but was drawn into the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24.
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.
Filmography [edit]
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
Aloďse
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
The Accuser (film)
Abéraud
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
2011
The Cardboard Village
Les hommes libres
Le recteur Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
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
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