Michael Lonsdale, Bond Villain in 'Moonraker,' Dies at 89
He was not on the list.
The Paris-born actor also was memorable in 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'Of Gods and Men.'
Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film Moonraker and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died. He was 89.
Lonsdale died Monday at his home in Paris, his agent, Olivier Loiseau, told the AFP.
Born in Paris, Lonsdale portrayed Louis XVI in Jefferson in Paris (1995) and appeared in other notable films including Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose (1986), James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993), John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998) and Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) during his busy six-decade career.
He also received a Cesar award for portraying the Trappist monk Brother Luc in Of Gods and Men (2010), set in 1996 during Algeria's civil war. The film was a huge hit in France.
In the Roger Moore-starring Moonraker (1979), Lonsdale was fiendishly good as Drax, a billionaire piano-playing industrialist who aims to poison the people of Earth and then repopulate the planet using people he has selected to live on his space station.
"He is such a terrible character, a sort of Nazi," he said in a 2012 interview. "I mean, Drax is like Hitler. He wanted to destroy everybody and rain down a new order of very athletic, young people … he was mad completely."
As Claude Lebel, he thwarted the would-be Charles de Gaulle assassin played by Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal (1973).
Lonsdale was born to an English military officer and a French mother on May 24, 1931. He and his family moved to Morocco in 1939.
"My parents became friends with the officers [there at the time] and they brought me along to see all the great movies by John Ford, George Cukor, Howard Hawks," he told The Wall Street Journal in 2010. "I even saw Casablanca in Casablanca. It was amusing to see Hollywood's idea of Morocco, which was a kind of extravagant Egyptian fantasy. Of course, nobody looked anything like that."
He returned to Paris in 1947 to study painting but took acting classes and appeared on the stage for the first time when he was 24.
Lonsdale also played a pastor in Orson Welles' The Trial (1962), a tortured vice-consul in Marguerite Duras' India Song (1974) and a strange shoe salesman in François Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968).
Actor (243 credits)
2019 Degas et moi (Short)
Edgar Degas
2016 Sculpt
2016 Un passager clandestin (Short)
2016 Une saison pour Maurice Pons
2016 The First, the Last
Jean-Berchmans
2015 Nox (Short)
Léon
2015 Les filles au Moyen Âge
Daniel
2014 C'est le ciel qui vous envoie! (Short)
Voix de papa
2014/I Maestro
Cédric Rovère
2014 Rosenn (voice)
2013 Le tourbillon de Jeanne (TV Series)
L'homme
- Bien Joué (2013) ... L'homme
2013 Le renard jaune
Jean Virno
2012 007 Legends (Video Game)
Hugo Drax (voice)
2012 Gebo and the Shadow
Gebo
2011 The Cardboard Village
Il vecchio prete
2011 Free Men
Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
2011 Titeuf: The Movie
Le psy (voice)
2011 Le chant des particules (Short)
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 (as Michaël Lonsdale)
2009 Une ville (Short)
Narrator
2009 Wakefield (Short) (voice)
2009 Park Benches
Le client au paillasson
2009 Je vais te manquer
Max
2009 Agora
Theon
2008 Une belle croisière (Short)
2008 Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon (Video Game)
Henri Crousteau (voice)
2008 Le silence de l'épervier (TV Mini Series)
Antoine Carsac
- Episode #1.8 (2008) ... Antoine Carsac
- Episode #1.7 (2008) ... Antoine Carsac
- Episode #1.6 (2008) ... Antoine Carsac
- Episode #1.5 (2008) ... Antoine Carsac
- Episode #1.4 (2008) ... Antoine Carsac
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2008 Ciels de traîne (Short)
Lucien
2007 Faits divers (Short)
Paul
2007 Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
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
2006 Ce que je vous dois (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)
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 Five Times Two
Bernard
2004 Under a False Name
David
2004 L'empreinte
Romain Dessouches
2003 Halman's Walk (Short) (voice)
2003 Le Furet
Don Salvadore (as Michaël Lonsdale)
2003 Adieu
Serge
2003 La place de l'autre (TV Movie)
Hans
2003 Kaena: The Prophecy
Opaz (voice)
2003 The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Stangerson
1991-2001 Maigret (TV Series)
Sir Lampson / Monsieur Serre
- 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 A Monkey's Tale
Master Martin (voice)
1998 To Be or Not to Be (Short)
Old Jewish Man
1998 Ronin
Jean-Pierre
1998 Let There Be Light
Monseigneur Loublié
1998 Don Juan
Don Luis
1997 Bruit d'amour et de guerre (Short)
Le réalisateur
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series)
Bishop
1997 Mauvais genre
Honoré de Balzac
1996 La plante humaine
Michel
1995 L'entretien (Short)
1995 Terra incognita (Short)
1995 Vroum-vroum (Short)
1995 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
Dolabella
1995 Jefferson in Paris
Louis XVI
1993 The Remains of the Day
Dupont D'Ivry
1993 L'ordre du jour
Stark
1993 Woyzeck
Le capitaine
1992 Deux amis, prélude (Short)
1992 La table d'émeraude (Short)
1992 Pièce unique (Short)
1992 Un cane sciolto 3 (TV Movie)
Le professeur Braida
1991 My Life Is Hell
Gabriel
1991 Un cane sciolto 2 (TV Movie)
Procuratore generale
1990 Un cane sciolto (TV Movie)
Procuratore
1989 L'homme de terre
Narrator (voice)
1989 Le voisin de Paul (Short)
L'aveugle
1988 Souvenir
Xavier Lorion
1988 The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Le maître
1988 À suivre (Short)
Main part
1987 L'enfant et le président
Le président
1987 La conscience (Short) (voice)
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 Riviera (TV Movie)
Detective Dubois
1986-1987 The Secret Drawer (TV Mini Series)
Philippe Jolivet
- Le retour (1987) ... Philippe Jolivet
- La mise au point (1987) ... Philippe Jolivet
- La rencontre (1986) ... Philippe Jolivet
- Top Secret (1986) ... Philippe Jolivet
- L'enquête (1986) ... Philippe Jolivet
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1986 The Name of the Rose
Der Abt
1986 Rendez-vous manqués (TV Movie)
Moralès
1986 Canevas la ville
Narrator (voice)
1985/I L'art d'aimer (Short)
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
1984 Les Boulugres
Le Roi (voice)
1984 Le bon roi Dagobert
Saint Eloi
1984 La jeune femme en vert (TV Movie)
Vidal
1984 Lire c'est vivre: Élie Faure, Vélasquez et les Ménines (TV Movie)
Le lecteur
1984 The Judge
Le Docteur
1983 Une jeunesse
Bejardy
1983 Eréndira
Senator Onésimo Sanchez
1983 Liberté-liberté (TV Movie)
Maurice
1982 Les atours de l'oeil foudre (Short)
1982 Merci Bernard (TV Series)
Various Characters
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
- Smiley's Lighter (1982) ... Anton Grigoriev
- Alexandra Tatjana (1982) ... Anton Grigoriev
1982 Enigma
Bodley
1982 Mersonne ne m'aime (TV Movie)
Le commissaire Bancau
1982 Les invités (TV Movie)
Charles Maurienne
1982 Chronopolis
Narrator (voice)
1982 Sweet Inquest on Violence
Ash, le financier
1982 Le rose et le blanc
Léon
1981 Non-Lieu (TV Movie)
Le docteur Gilbert Dereine
1981 Histoire contemporaine (TV Mini Series)
Récitant
1981 Le roman du samedi (TV Series)
Adolphe Verloc
- L'agent secret (1981) ... Adolphe Verloc
1981 Seuls
Ludovic
1981 The Games of Countess Dolingen
Bertrand Haines-Pearson
1981 Chariots of Fire
Garth Jones
1981 The Bunker (TV Movie)
Martin Bormann
1980 Ella, une vraie famille
Le comédien studio d'enregistrement
1980 Jean-Sans-Terre (TV Movie)
Jean Papeuil
1979 Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979 Acte manqué (Short)
Monsieur
1979 Moonraker
Hugo Drax
1979 The Passage
Alain Renoudot
1978 La dame à la licorne (Short)
1977 Le conseiller Crespel (Short)
1977 Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977 The Left-Handed Woman
Kellner (as Michel Lonsdale)
1977 The Accuser
Abéraud (as Michel Lonsdale)
1977 L'adieu nu
Boris / The visitor
1977 The Devil in the Box
Georges Aubert (as Michel Lonsdale)
1976 L'Eden Palace
Raoul
1976 La nuit du beau marin peut-être (Short)
Boris
1976 Les écrans déchirés (Short)
Michel
1976/I Bartleby
L'huissier (as Michel Lonsdale)
1976 Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta
Le vice-consul de Lahore
1976 Mr. Klein
Pierre (as Michel Lonsdale)
1976 Scrambled Eggs
Le Président de la République
1975 Ne
1975 The Pink Telephone
Morrison
1975 Mad Enough to Kill
Stéphane Mostri (as Michel Lonsdale)
1975 India Song
Le vice-consul de Lahore (as Michel Lonsdale)
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman
Swan (as Michel Lonsdale)
1975 The Track
David Sutter
1975 Special Section
Pierre Pucheu, le ministre de l'Intérieur (as Michel Lonsdale)
1975 Aloïse
Le médecin directeur
1975 Plain-chant (TV Series)
Le lecteur
- Kafka: la lettre au père (1975) ... Le lecteur
1975 Galileo
Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
1975 Serious as Pleasure
L'inspecteur Fournier (as Michel Lonsdale)
1974 Birth and Death of Prometheus (Short)
1974 La chevauchée sur le lac de Constance (TV Movie)
Emil Jannings
1974 La choisie (Short)
L'oncle
1974 Le jeu des preuves (Short)
1974 Les musiciens du culte (Short)
1974 La confession d'un enfant du siècle (TV Movie)
Smith
1974 The Suspects
Le juge Souftries
1974 No Pockets in a Shroud
Raymond (as Michel Lonsdale)
1974 The Phantom of Liberty
Le chapelier / Hatter
1974 Malaventure (TV Series short)
Georges Mortier
- Dans l'intérêt des familles: 6ème épisode (1974) ... Georges Mortier
- Dans l'intérêt des familles: 5ème épisode (1974) ... Georges Mortier
- Dans l'intérêt des familles: 4ème épisode (1974) ... Georges Mortier
- Dans l'intérêt des familles: 3ème épisode (1974) ... Georges Mortier
- Dans l'intérêt des familles: 2ème épisode (1974) ... Georges Mortier
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1974 Caravan to Vaccares
Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)
1974 A Whale That Had a Toothache
Le peintre
1974 La vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu
Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
1974 Stavisky
Docteur Mézy
1974 La grande Paulette
Paul
1974 Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Le magistrat instructeur (as Michel Lonsdale)
1973 Big Sentiments Make for Good Sports
Stéphane
1973 The Girl with the Cello
Philippe Lariel (as Michel Lonsdale)
1973 The Day of the Jackal
Lebel (as Michel Lonsdale)
1973 La poule (Short)
1972 Out 1: Spectre
Thomas
1972 L'automne
Julien, le réalisateur
1972 Chut!
Sergel (as Michel Lonsdale)
1972 Alberte (TV Mini Series)
Jean
- Episode #1.2 (1972) ... Jean
- Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Jean
1972 Cops Is Cops
Le commissaire Lucas (as Michel Lonsdale)
1972 Les cent livres des hommes (TV Series)
Socrate
- Le portrait de Socrate (1972) ... Socrate
1972 The Old Maid
Monod (as Michel Lonsdale)
1971 Jaune le soleil
Un juif
1971 Papa, the Lil' Boats
Hippolyte the brother of Marylène (as Michel Lonsdale)
1971 Out 1
Thomas
1971 Romulus le grand (TV Movie)
L'empereur Romulus Augustule
1971 Law Breakers
Inspecteur Bertrand (as Michel Lonsdale)
1971 Murmur of the Heart
Father Henri (as Michel Lonsdale)
1971 Le malade imaginaire (TV Movie)
Purgon (as Michel Lonsdale)
1971 Le printemps
L'homme qui fuit (as Michael Lonsdale)
1970 Le revolver et la rose
Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky (as Michel Lonsdale)
1970 La fenêtre (TV Movie)
Bracquemont
1970 The Stud
Both (as Michel Lonsdale)
1969 L'hiver
Julien & Marc
1969 Les frères Karamazov (TV Movie)
Le diable
1969 Destroy, She Said
Stein
1969 Hibernatus
Le professeur Édouard Loriebat (as Michel Lonsdale)
1969 The Nail Clippers (Short)
Le mari
1969 Appelez-moi Rose (TV Movie)
Alexis
1968 Concerto for an Exile (Short)
Un acteur au théâtre
1968 Project Orfée (Short)
Orfée
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 The Man in the Buick
L'inspecteur / The inspector (as Michel Lonsdale)
1968 Zoo Story (TV Movie)
Peter
1967 Méli-mélodrame (Short)
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1967 The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
Un avocat
1967 Order of the Daisy
Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / La voix du juge d'instruction (as Michel Lonsdale)
1966 Comédie (Short)
L'homme (M)
1966 Judoka-Secret Agent
Thomas Perkins (as Michel Lonsdale)
1966 Le fer à repasser
1966 Is Paris Burning?
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
1966 Les fables de La Fontaine (TV Series)
Le comte de
- Le loup et le chien (1966) ... Le comte de
1966 Your Money or Your Life
Le conférencier au club des timides (as Michel Lonsdale)
1965 Hail, Mafia
Hyman (as Michel Lonsdale)
1965 La redevance du fantôme (TV Movie)
Kerman (as Michel Lonsdale)
1965 Les copains
Lamenbin (as Michel Lonsdale)
1964 Tous les enfants du monde (Short)
Le papa de Nicolas
1964 L'enlèvement d'Antoine Bigut (TV Movie)
Didot
1964 Les petites demoiselles (TV Movie)
L'Elève
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