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Acting

Michael Lonsdale

Career: Active from 1960 to 2024, busiest in 1974 with 10 main titles.

Leading roles: 91
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Stolen Kisses
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 63 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Michael Lonsdale Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Wholesome
2.4, average 3.4
Family Dynamics
3.9, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

French Cinema 8
Character-Driven 7
Social Commentary 6
Political Intrigue 5
Character Study 4
Historical Drama 4
Dialogue-Driven 4
Tense Atmosphere 3
Witty Dialogue 3
Period Drama 3
Complex Relationships 3
Conspiracy Thriller 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

185

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

African Glory

as Christopher Columbus

The Outsider

as Narrator (Voice)

2010s

18 titles · average score 64

Degas and I

as Edgar Degas

Les Filles au Moyen-Âge

as Daniel

The First, the Last

63

as Jean-Berchmans

Maestro

62

as Cedric Rovère

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

66

as (voice)

N: The Madness Of Reason

as Narrator

Le Renard jaune

as Jean Virno

Gebo and the Shadow

65

as Gebo

Free Men

67

as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit

The Cardboard Village

56

as Old Priest

Hitler in Hollywood

59

as Michael Lonsdale

Of Gods and Men

80

as Luc

2000s

27 titles · average score 60

Agora

62

as Theon

Le Silence de l'épervier

TV show · as Antoine Carsac

Heartbeat Detector

57

as Mathias Jüst

The Last Mistress

69

as le vicomte Prony

Goya's Ghosts

52

as Inquisitor General

Gentille

58

as Jean

The Separation

as Paul Doumer

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

60

as Professor Stangerson

Adieu

as Serge

Five Times Two

65

as Bernard

Kaena: The Prophecy

40

as Opaz (voice)

Le Furet

47

as Don Salvadore

1990s

18 titles · average score 65

A Monkey's Tale

63

as Maître Flavius (Voice)

Don Juan

46

as Don Luis

Ronin

70

as Jean-Pierre

Noise of Love and War

as The director

Mauvais Genre

47

as Honoré de Balzac

La Plante Humaine

as Michel

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

85

as Dollabella

Dieu sait quoi

as Narrator

L'ordre du jour

as Stark

The Remains of the Day

85

as Dupont D'Ivry

Woyzeck

as Le capitaine

Maigret

78

TV show · as Guillaume Serre / Sir Lampson

1980s

32 titles · average score 60

Souvenir

as Xavier Lorion

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

66

as Cammerschulze

The Name of the Rose

70

as The Abbot

The Insomniac on the Bridge

as Antonie

The Holcroft Covenant

38

as Ernst Manfredi

Erendira

68

as Senator Onésimo Sanchez

The Boulugres

as Le roi (voice)

Chronopolis

63

as Narrator (voice)

Enigma

57

as Bodley

The Games of Countess Dolingen

46

as Bertrand Haines-Pearson

Alone

as Ludovic

The Bunker

65

as Martin Bormann

1970s

56 titles · average score 65

Moonraker

59

as Hugo Drax

Bartleby

as L'Huissier

Special Section

73

as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur

India Song

74

as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore

The Track

70

as David Sutter

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

64

as The Judge

Stavisky...

70

as Docteur Mézy

The Girl with the Cello

as Philippe Lariel

There Once Was a Cop

61

as Commissioner Lucas

Out 1

87

TV show · as Thomas

Murmur of the Heart

85

as Father Henri

Spring

66

as L'homme qui fuit

1960s

31 titles · average score 67

Winter

as Julien & Marc

The Nail Clippers

as Le mari

Destroy, She Said

68

as Stein

Stolen Kisses

87

as Georges Tabard

The Bride Wore Black

80

as Morane

The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung

as L'Avocat de la Défense

Your Money or Your Life

58

as Speaker at the Shy People's Club

Comédie

as L'homme (M)

The Ghostly Rental

as Kernan

Jaloux comme un tigre

as The grimacing motorist

Crime Does Not Pay

59

as Acteur

Snobs!

as Charles Dufaut

1950s

1 title

It Happened in Aden

as Sinclair