Biography
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch, 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).
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Awards & recognition
- Prix Marguerite Duras · 2016
- César Award — Best Supporting Actor · 2011
- Globes de Cristal Awards · 2011
- Medal of the City of Paris · 2011
- César Award — Best Supporting Actor · 2008 · nominated
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- César Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1996 · nominated
Filmography41 titles
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Maigret
The Name of the Rose
The Day of the Jackal
The Remains of the Day
The Phantom of Liberty
The Trial
Stolen Kisses
Mr. Klein
Special Section
Is Paris Burning?
Munich
The Bride Wore Black
Agora
Ronin
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
Murmur of the Heart
Of Gods and Men
Hibernatus
Gebo and the Shadow
Goya's Ghosts
Five Times Two
A Monkey's Tale
India Song
The Bunker
The Passage
Moonraker
A Dirty Story
Galileo
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Behold a Pale Horse
Kaena: The Prophecy
The Last Mistress
Titeuf: The Movie
Enigma
Free Men
The Holcroft Covenant
The Romantic Englishwoman
Bye Bye Blackbird
Jefferson in Paris
Rosenn