Michael Lonsdale
French actor
- Lived
- 1931–2020
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Also writes as
- Michel Lonsdale, Alfred de Turri
Updated September 2026
About Michael Lonsdale
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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