
Known for
Acting
Born
May 24, 1931
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
September 21, 2020 (aged 89)
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day (1993).
Lonsdale was born in Paris, the natural son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale Crouch and Simone Calderon (née Béraud). He was brought up initially on the island of Jersey, the...
2025
2024
as Christopher Columbus
2023
as Narrator (Voice)
2022
as Self (archive footage)
2020
2019
as Edgar Degas
2019
as Narrator
2017
as Narrator
2016
2016
2016
2016
as Jean-Berchmans
2016
as Daniel
2015
as Self
2014
as (voice)
2014
as Narrator
2014
as Cedric Rovère
2014
as (voice)
2013
as Jean Virno
2012
as Gebo
2011
2011
as Old Priest
2011
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011
as Michael Lonsdale
2011
as Le psy (voice)