Michael Lonsdale
Birthday: 1931-05-24 | Place of Birth: Paris, FranceMichael Lonsdale (May 24, 1931 – September 21, 2020), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. Lonsdale was raised by an Irish mother and an English father, initially in London and on Jersey, and later during the Second World War in Casablanca, Morocco. 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. Lonsdale was bilingual and is in demand for English-language and French productions. He was 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 Caesar award, his first, as a best supporting actor in Of Gods and Men. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as Daniel
as Narrator
as Luc
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
as Theon
as Inquisitor General
as le vicomte Prony
as Bernard
as Papa
as Robert
as Opaz (french voice)
as Jean-Pierre
as Dollabella
as Louis XVI
as Dupont D'Ivry
as Xavier Lorion
as The Abbot
as Ernst Manfredi
as Saint Eloi
as Bodley
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
as Hugo Drax
as Renoudot
as Morrison
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
as Swan
as Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
as The Judge
