Michael Lonsdale

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Michael Edward Lonsdale (born 24 May 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a British-French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows.

He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M. Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day.

Early life and education

Lonsdale was born in Paris, the son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale-Crouch and his half-French, half-Irish wife Simone Béraud. He was brought up initially on the island of Guernsey, then in London from 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Personal life and death

In his 2016 memoir Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie, Lonsdale revealed he had fallen for Delphine Seyrig, having met her as a student in Tania Balachova's acting classes at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1947. He wrote that "it was her or nothing", which was why he never married.

Lonsdale died in Paris on 21 September 2020, aged 89.

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Career

In 1947, he returned to Paris to study painting, but was soon pulled into acting, first appearing on stage at the age of 24. Lonsdale was bilingual and appeared in both English-language and French-language films. In the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, he appeared in a starring role alongside Roger Moore. In the 1984 film The Name of the Rose, Sean Connery appears as the protagonist. As it happens, he will appear in Munich later this year, in a film that also stars Daniel Craig.

He received the César Award for his role in Of Gods and Men in February 2011.

Lonsdale was also the author of ten books.

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