
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, then in London from 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco.
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The titles people know Michael from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Christopher Columbus

as Narrator (Voice)

as Edgar Degas

as Narrator

as Narrator

as Jean-Berchmans

as Daniel
as (voice)

as Narrator

as Max
as Theon

as Le Grand Loustalot · 1 episode
as Kocsmáros (voice)

as Antoine Carsac · 8 episodes
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
as Mathias Jüst
as Bartleby (voice)
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
as Jean-Pierre

as Monseigneur Loublié
as Don Luis

as Honoré de Balzac

as (voice)

as The director

as Michel

as Xavier Lorion

as (voice)
as Cammerschulze

as Tanzmann

as Philippe Jolivet · 1 episode
as The Abbot
as Moralès

as Raymond
as Hugo Drax
as Renoudot
as The Waiter

as narrator

as The voyeur

as Abéraud
as Julien & Marc
as Stein
as Edouard Loriebat

as Le mari
as Delaroche
as Georges Tabard
as Morane
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.

as Sinclair
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