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Michael Lonsdale

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Michael Lonsdale

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Also known as Michel Lonsdale

French actor (1931–2020)

Person · Open Library

Born
1931
Works
6

Top works

  • Jésus, lumière de vie
  • Abécédaire
  • Michael Lonsdale
  • Oraisons
  • Un cri dans les images

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Film & TV

Acting · Paris, France

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…

Known for

  • The Life of Mirrors2025
  • African Glory — Christopher Columbus2024
  • The Outsider — Narrator (Voice)2023
  • An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose — Self (archive footage)2022
  • Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff — Self2020
  • Degas and I — Edgar Degas2019
  • Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique — Narrator2019
  • Bazin's Film — Narrator2017
  • Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres — Self2016
  • The First, the Last — Jean-Berchmans2016

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
France
Active from
1931
Active to
2020

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
43
Total plays
257

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Key facts

Born
Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch , ( 1931-05-24 ) 24 May 1931, Paris , France
Died
21 September 2020 (2020-09-21) (aged 89), Paris, France
Other name
Michel Lonsdale
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1955–2016

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Encyclopedic overview

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 most famous for being cast 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).

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Lonsdale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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