Michael Lonsdale
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Michael Lonsdale and sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020) was a British-French actor who 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.
He had parts in many auteur films such as Le fantôme de la liberté (1974) by Luis Buñuel, Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) by Alain Robbe-Grillet and 5x2 (2004) by François Ozon.
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Selected filmography
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Film
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Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1982 | Smiley's People | Anton Grigoriev | TV miniseries |
1986 | Le Tiroir secret | TV miniseries | |
1991 | Maigret et la Grande Perche | Monsieur Serre | TV series |
2001 | Maigret et la Croqueuse de Diamants | Sir Lampson | TV series |
2013 | Marguerite Yourcenar, alchimie du paysage | The Narrator | TV documentary |
Le tourbillon de Jeanne | L'homme | TV series |
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