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Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch
in Paris, France
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???? L'étrange monsieur Trip (in production)
 
2013 Le renard jaune
Jean Virno
 
2012 007 Legends (Video Game)
Hugo Drax (voice)
 
2012 O Gebo e a Sombra
Gebo
 
2011 The Cardboard Village
Il vecchio prete
 
2011 Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
 
2011 Titeuf, le film
Le psy (voice)
 
2010 Même l'avenir dure longtemps (short) (as Michaël Lonsdale)
 
2010 Hitler in Hollywood
Michael Lonsdale
 
2010 Of Gods and Men
Luc
 
2010 Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (TV series)
Le Grand Loustalot
– Le fauteuil hanté (2010) … Le Grand Loustalot
 
2010 Le chant des particules (short)
 
2009 Park Benches
Le client au paillasson
 
2009 You'll Miss Me
Max
 
2009 Agora
Theon
 
2009 Wakefield (short) (voice)
 
2008 Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon (Video Game)
Henri Crousteau (voice)
 
2008 Le silence de l'épervier (TV mini-series)
Antoine Carsac
 
2007 Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke
Bartleby (voice)
 
2007 The Last Mistress
Le vicomte de Prony
 
2007 To Each His Own Cinema
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
 
2007 Heartbeat Detector
Mathias Jüst
 
2007 Faits divers (short)
Paul
 
2006 Goya's Ghosts
Inquisitor General
 
2006 Les mains d'Andrea (short)
 
2006 Il sera une fois...
Le vieux monsieur
 
2006 Jeanne à petits pas (short)
 
2006 Ce que je vous dois (short)
Paul
 
2005 Munich
Papa
 
2005 La séparation (TV movie)
Paul Doumer
 
2005 Selon Rachel
 
2005 Gentille
Jean
 
2005 Le parfum de la dame en noir
Le professeur Stangerson
 
2005 Bye Bye Blackbird
Robert
 
2005 Les invisibles
Le gardien
 
2004 5x2
Bernard
 
2004 Strange Crime
David Ginsberg
 
2004 L'empreinte
Romain Dessouches
 
2003 Le furet
Don Salvadore
 
2003 Adieu
Serge
 
2003 La place de l'autre (TV movie)
Hans
 
2003 Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice: French version)
 
2003 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
 
1991-2001 Maigret (TV series)
Monsieur Serre / Sir Lampson
– Maigret et la croqueuse de diamants (2001) … Sir Lampson
– Maigret et la grande perche (1991) … Monsieur Serre
 
2000 Those Facing Us
Mikaël
 
2000 Actors
L'homme qui marche dans la rue
 
1999 Le château des singes
Maître Flavius (French version) (voice)
 
1998 Ronin
Jean-Pierre
 
1998 Let There Be Light
Monseigneur Loublié
 
1998 Don Juan
Don Luis
 
1998 To Be or Not to Be (short)
Old Jewish Man
 
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV series)
Bishop
 
1997 Mauvais genre
Honoré de Balzac
 
1997 Bruit d'amour et de guerre (short)
Le réalisateur
 
1996 La plante humaine
Michel
 
1995 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
Dolabella
 
1995 Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
 
1995 Vroum-vroum (short)
 
1995 L'entretien (short)
 
1995 Terra incognita (short)
 
1993 The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
 
1993 L'ordre du jour
Stark
 
1993 Woyzeck
Le capitaine
 
1992 Un cane sciolto 3 (TV movie)
Le professeur Braida
 
1992 La table d'émeraude (short)
 
1992 Pièce unique (short)
 
1992 Deux amis, prélude (short)
 
1991 My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
 
1991 Un cane sciolto 2 (TV movie)
Procuratore generale
 
1990 Un cane sciolto (TV movie)
Procuratore
 
1989 Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
 
1989 Le voisin de Paul (short)
L'aveugle
 
1988 Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera
Le maître
 
1988 À suivre (short)
Main part
 
1981-1987 Cinéma 16 (TV series)
Gustave / Roland
– Le loufiat (1987) … Gustave
– Un paquebot dans la tête (1981) … Roland
 
1987 Der Madonna-Mann
Tanzmann
 
1987 La conscience (short) (voice)
 
1986 Le tiroir secret (TV mini-series)
Philippe Jolivet
– La saisie (1986) … Philippe Jolivet
 
1986 The Name of the Rose
The Abbot
 
1986 Rendez-vous manqués (TV movie)
Moralès
 
1986 Canevas la ville (voice)
 
1985 Billy Ze Kick
Commissaire Bellanger
 
1985 Le génie du faux (TV movie)
Constantin Escher
 
1985 The Insomniac on the Bridge
Antoine
 
1985 The Holcroft Covenant
Ernst Manfredi
 
1985/I L'art d'aimer (short)
 
1984 Good King Dagobert
Saint Eloi
 
1984 La jeune femme en vert (TV movie)
Vidal
 
1984 The Judge
Le Docteur
 
1984 Lire c'est vivre: Élie Faure, Vélasquez et les Ménines (TV movie)
Le lecteur
 
1983 Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
 
1983 Eréndira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
 
1983 Une jeunesse
Bejardy
 
1983 Liberté-liberté (TV movie)
Maurice
 
1983 Enigma
Bodley
 
1983 Les Boulugres
Le Roi (voice)
 
1980-1982 Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (TV series)
– L'armoire (1982)
– Annonce matrimoniale (1980)
 
1982 Théâtre pour demain: L'armoire (TV movie)
Focker
 
1982 Smiley's People (TV mini-series)
Anton Grigoriev
– Episode #1.6 (1982) … Anton Grigoriev
– Episode #1.5 (1982) … Anton Grigoriev
 
1982 Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, le financier
 
1982 Mersonne ne m'aime (TV movie)
Le commissaire de police
 
1982 Les invités (TV movie)
Charles Maurienne
 
1982 Merci Bernard (TV series)
Various Characters
 
1982 Le rose et le blanc
Léon
 
1982 Les atours de l'oeil foudre (short)
 
1981 Non-Lieu (TV movie)
Le docteur Gilbert Dereine
 
1981 Histoire contemporaine (TV mini-series)
Récitant
 
1981 Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
 
1981 Seuls
Le peintre
 
1981 Chariots of Fire
Garth Jones
 
1981 The Bunker (TV movie)
Martin Bormann
 
1981 Le roman du samedi: L'agent secret (TV movie)
Adolphe Verloc
 
1980 Jean-Sans-Terre (TV movie)
Jean Papeuil
 
1979 Acte manqué (short)
Monsieur
 
1979 Moonraker
Hugo Drax
 
1979 The Passage
Alain Renoudot
 
1979 Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
 
1978 Die linkshändige Frau
Kellner
 
1978 La dame à la licorne (short)
 
1977 Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
 
1977 A Dirty Story (as Michaël Lonsdale)
 
1977 The Accuser
Abéraud
 
1977 L'adieu nu
Boris/The visitor
 
1977 The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1977 Le conseiller Crespel (short)
 
1976 Bartleby
L'huissier
 
1976 Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
1976 Mr. Klein
Pierre (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1976 Scrambled Eggs
Le Président de la République
 
1976 La nuit du beau marin peut-être (short)
Boris
 
1976 Les écrans déchirés (short)
Michel
 
1976 L'Eden Palace
Raoul
 
1975 The Track
David Sutter
 
1975 Le téléphone rose
Morrison
 
1975 Mad Enough to Kill
Stéphane Mostri (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan
 
1975 India Song
Le vice-consul de Lahore (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1975 Section spéciale
Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
 
1975 Aloïse
Le médecin directeur/The second doctor
 
1975 Kafka: la lettre au père (TV movie)
Le lecteur
 
1975 Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
 
1975 Serious as Pleasure
L'inspecteur Fournier/Inspector Fournier (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1975 Ne
 
1974 La confession d'un enfant du siècle (TV movie)
Smith
 
1974 The Suspects
Le juge Souftries
 
1974 La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
 
1974 No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1974 The Phantom of Liberty
Le chapelier/Hatter
 
1974 Caravan to Vaccares
Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1974 Malaventure (TV series)
Georges Mortier (segment "Dans l'intérêt des familles")
 
1974 A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
 
1974 Stavisky...
Docteur Mézy
 
1974 La grande Paulette
Paul
 
1974 Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
 
1974 Successive Slidings of Pleasure
The Judge
 
1974 La choisie (short)
L'oncle
 
1974 Les musiciens du culte (short)
 
1974 Le jeu des preuves (short)
 
1974 Naissance et mont de Prométhée (short)
 
1973 Big Sentiments Make for Good Sports
Stéphane
 
1973 The Day of the Jackal
Lebel (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1973 Papa the Little Boats
Hippolyte (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1973 The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel
 
1972 Chut!
Sergel (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1972 The Old Maid
Monod (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1972 Alberte (TV mini-series)
Jean
 
1972 Le printemps
L'homme qui fuit (as Michael Lonsdale)
 
1971 Out 1
Thomas
 
1971 Romulus le grand (TV movie)
 
1971 Law Breakers
Inspector Bertrand (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1971 Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri
 
1971 Le malade imaginaire (TV movie)
Purgon (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1971 La poule (short)
 
1971 Jaune le soleil
Un juif
 
1971 There Was Once a Cop
Le commissaire Lucas (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1971 L'automne
Julien, le réalisateur
 
1970 La fenêtre (TV movie)
Bracquemont
 
1970 The Stud
Both (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1970 La rose et le revolver
 
1969 Détruire dit-elle
Stein
 
1969 Hibernatus
Le professeur Édouard Loriebat (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1969 La pince à ongles (short)
Le mari
 
1969 Appelez-moi Rose (TV movie)
Alexis
 
1969 Les frères Karamazov (TV movie)
Le diable
 
1969 L'hiver
Julien & Marc
 
1968 The Big Wash
Delaroche (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1968 Stolen Kisses
Georges Tabard (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1968 The Bride Wore Black
Rene Morane (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1968 Zoo Story (TV movie)
 
1968 The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur/The inspector (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1968 Project Orfée (short)
Orfée
 
1968 Concerto for an Exile (short)
Un acteur au théâtre
 
1967 Les compagnons de la marguerite
Lastac/Lataque, expert en écritures/La voix du juge d'instruction (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1967 Méli-mélodrame (short)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
1966 Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
 
1966 Your Money or Your Life
Le conférencier au club des timides (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1966 Le fer à repasser
 
1966 Comédie (short)
L'homme
 
1966 Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1966 The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
Defense
 
1965 Hail, Mafia
Hyman
 
1965 La redevance du fantôme (TV movie)
Kerman (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1965 Les copains
Lamenbin (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1964 L'enlèvement d'Antoine Bigut (TV movie)
Didot
 
1964 Les petites demoiselles (TV movie)
 
1964 Jaloux comme un tigre
 
1964 L'amour médecin (TV movie)
M. des Fonandres
 
1964 Behold a Pale Horse
Reporter
 
1964 Tous les enfants du monde (short)
 
1964 Les fables de La Fontaine (TV series)
– Le loup et le chien
 
1962 The Trial
Priest
 
1962 Snobs!
Charles Dufaut (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1962 Escale obligatoire (TV movie)
L'Américain (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1962 La dénonciation
 
1962 Crime Does Not Pay
L'employé de la morgue (segment "L'homme de l'avenue") (uncredited)
 
1962 Adorable menteuse
Albert (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1962 Le bureau des mariages (short)
 
1960 The Door Slams
 
1960 The Itchy Palm
Nobert (as Alfred de Turris)
 
1960 Les trois soeurs (TV movie)
Andreï Prodarov (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1958 A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
1956 It Happened in Aden
Sinclair (as Michel Lonsdale)
 
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2007 The Man from London (voice dubbing: Gyula Pauer)
 
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2005 Bye Bye Blackbird (performer: "A Paris dans chaque Faburourg")
 
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1982 Mora (scenario)
 
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1976 Les discours du maître (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (30 titles)
2008-2012 Vivement dimanche (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 28 October 2012 (2012) … Himself
– Roger Moore (2008) … Himself
 
2011 Ghjuva est mort (documentary)
French Narrator (voice)
 
2011 Un foglio bianco - Appunti su 'Il villaggio di cartone' (documentary)
Himself
 
1977-2011 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself / Himself - César du meilleur espoir masculin
– 36e cérémonie des César (2011) … Himself - César du meilleur espoir masculin
– 8ème nuit des Césars (1983) … Himself
– 5ème nuit des Césars (1980) … Himself
– 2ème nuit des Césars (1977) … Himself
 
2010 Gargouille de charme - Daniel Emilfork, contre les apparences (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Passemerveille (documentary short)
Voice-over
 
2007 Lonsdale l'insondable (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Munich: The International Cast (video short)
Himself
 
2006 Mocky circus (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003-2006 Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Nouveau campus en direct! (2006) … Himself
– Spéciale Avignon (2003) … Himself
 
2000 Un siècle d'écrivains (TV series documentary)
Narrator / Récitant
– André Pieyre de Mandiargues - L'amateur d'imprudence (2000) … Récitant/Narrator (voice)
– Is dead ou Portrait incomplet de Gertrud Stein (2000) … Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
2000 Speaking of Bunuel (documentary)
Él mismo
 
2000 Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1994 Dieu sait quoi (documentary)
Récitant/Narrator
 
1991 Langlois monumental (TV short)
Himself
 
1990 Un film sur Georges Pérec: Te souviens-tu de Gaspard Winckler? - Vous souvenez-vous de Gaspard Winckler? (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1990 Mémoires rhénanes: L'aventure des mines (documentary short)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
1989 Cela s'appelle l'amour
Himself
 
1988 Du côté de chez Fred (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 3 November 1988 (1988) … Himself
 
1986 The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Requiem pour un fumeur (short)
Himself
 
1984 La couleur des mots (documentary)
Himself (as Michaël Lonsdale)
 
1983 Jean-Louis Barrault, un homme de théâtre (documentary)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
1979 Un comédien lit un auteur (TV series)
Himself
 
1978 The Risk of Living (documentary)
Récitant/Narrator (voice)
 
1977 Sur les traces de Balint (documentary)
 
1977 Jacques Prévert
Himself
 
1974 Film sur Hans Bellmer (documentary short)
Narrator (voice)
 
1972 Les cent livres des hommes (TV series)
Socrate
– Le portrait de Socrate (1972) … Socrate
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (5 titles)
2011 Special Collector's Edition (TV series)
 
2007 True Bond (TV documentary)
Hugo Drax (archive footage: Moonraker)
 
2004 Le nom de la rose (video documentary)
The Abbot (uncredited)
 
1999 The James Bond Story (TV documentary)
Hugo Drax (uncredited)
 
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV documentary)
Hugo Drax (uncredited)
 

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(1969) He acted in Samuel Beckett's play, "Oh! Les Beaux Jours," and Marguerite Duras's play, "L'Amante Anglaise," at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Madeleine Renaud, Michel Bertay, and Jean Servais in the cast.

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Alternate Names:

Michaël Lonsdale | Michel Lonsdale | Alfred de Turris

Height:

6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Gemini