Michael Lonsdale Movies and Career Information

Michael Lonsdale (born 24 May 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. Lonsdale was born in Paris to a French mother and an English father. Lonsdale is bilingual and is often in demand for English-language productions. He is best known for his role as the villainous Sir Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, the astute French detective Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day. Lonsdale has worked with three of the six James Bond actors: Roger Moore in Moonraker (1979), Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose (1986), and Daniel Craig in Munich (2005). Also in Munich, Lonsdale shares screen time with Mathieu Amalric, who would later portray villain Dominic Greene against Daniel Craig's James Bond in Quantum of Solace (2008).