Michael Lonsdale

Full filmography

• The Life of Mirrors (2025)
• African Glory (2024) as Christopher Columbus
• The Outsider (2023) as Narrator (Voice)
• An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022) as Self (archive footage)
• Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020) as Self
• Degas and I (2019) as Edgar Degas
• Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique (2019) as Narrator
• Bazin's Film (2017) as Narrator
• Sculpt (2016)
• Les Filles au Moyen-Âge (2016) as Daniel
• The First, the Last (2016) as Jean-Berchmans
• Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres (2016) as Self
• The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016) as Self
• The Visit (2015) as Self
• Maestro (2014) as Cedric Rovère
• Rosenn (2014) as (voice)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds (2014) as (voice)
• N: The Madness Of Reason (2014) as Narrator
• Le Renard jaune (2013) as Jean Virno
• Gebo and the Shadow (2012) as Gebo
• Hitler in Hollywood (2011) as Michael Lonsdale
• Free Men (2011) as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
• Titeuf (2011) as Le psy (voice)
• The Cardboard Village (2011) as Old Priest
• Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux (2011) as Narrateur
• Of Gods and Men (2010) as Luc
• Agora (2009) as Theon
• Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe (2009) as Le Grand Loustalot
• You'll Miss Me (2009) as Max
• Les amants cinéma (2008) as Self
• The Man from London (2008) as Kocsmáros (voice)
• Le Silence de l'épervier (2008) as Antoine Carsac
• The Last Mistress (2007) as le vicomte Prony
• To Each His Own Cinema (2007) as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
• Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (2007) as Bartleby (voice)
• Heartbeat Detector (2007) as Mathias Jüst
• Goya's Ghosts (2006) as Inquisitor General
• Jeanne, à petits pas (2006) as Louis
• Les Mains d'Andréa (2006)
• Munich (2005) as Papa
• The Separation (2005) as Paul Doumer
• Gentille (2005) as Jean
• The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005) as Professor Stangerson
• Invisible (2005) as Le gardien
• Bye Bye Blackbird (2005) as Robert
• Adieu (2004) as Serge
• Five Times Two (2004) as Bernard
• Under a False Name (2004) as David
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003) as Stangerson
• Le Furet (2003) as Don Salvadore
• Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) as Opaz (voice)
• Le Mythe Cathare (2002) as Narrator
• Those Facing Us (2001) as Mikaël
• Actors (2000) as Man walking down the street
• Inside 'Moonraker' (2000) as Self
• Speaking of Buñuel (2000) as Self
• Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000) as Self
• Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000) as Narrator (voice)
• A Monkey's Tale (1999) as Maître Flavius (Voice)
• Ronin (1998) as Jean-Pierre
• Don Juan (1998) as Don Luis
• Let There Be Light! (1998) as Monseigneur Loublié
• Noise of Love and War (1997) as The director
• Mauvais Genre (1997) as Honoré de Balzac
• Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997) as (voice)
• La Plante Humaine (1996) as Michel
• Jefferson in Paris (1995) as Louis XVI
• Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) as Dollabella
• Vroum-vroum (1995)
• Dieu sait quoi (1994) as Narrator
• The Remains of the Day (1993) as Dupont D'Ivry
• Woyzeck (1993) as Le capitaine
• L'ordre du jour (1993) as Stark
• Maigret (1991) as Guillaume Serre
• Maigret (1991) as Sir Lampson
• My Life Is Hell (1991) as Gabriel
• Seul face au crime (1991) as Procuratore
• Film sur Georges Perec (1990) as Self
• Out 1 (1990) as Thomas
• Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989) as Self
• Souvenir (1989) as Xavier Lorion
• Earthen Man (1989) as (voice)
• The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988) as Cammerschulze
• Der Madonna-Mann (1987) as Tanzmann
• The Name of the Rose (1986) as The Abbot
• Rendez-vous manqués (1986) as Moralès
• L'air d'aimer (1986) as Raymond
• Le Tiroir secret (1986) as Philippe Jolivet
• The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986) as Self
• Emile Reynaud (1986) as Narrator
• The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey (1986) as Narrator
• The Holcroft Covenant (1985) as Ernst Manfredi
• The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985) as Antonie
• Billy Ze Kick (1985) as Commissaire Bellanger
• Le Génie du faux (1985) as Constantin Escher
• Good King Dagobert (1984) as Saint Eloi
• The Colour of Words (1984) as Self
• The Judge (1984) as Le docteur
• Erendira (1983) as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
• The Boulugres (1983) as Le roi (voice)
• Chronopolis (1983) as Narrator (voice)
• Une jeunesse (1983) as Béjardy
• La Rényon lontan (1983) as Narrator (voice)
• Smiley's People (1982) as Anton Grigoriev
• Enigma (1982) as Bodley
• Le rose et le blanc (1982) as Léon
• Sweet Inquest on Violence (1982) as Ash, the financier
• Mora (1982) Writer
• Trompe-l'oeil (1982) as Self (voice)
• Mersonne ne m'aime (1982) as Commissioner Bancau
• Un paquebot dans la tête (1981) as Roland Gougean-Roland
• Alone (1981) as Ludovic
• The Bunker (1981) as Martin Bormann
• The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981) as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
• Jean-Sans-Terre (1980) as Jean Papeuil
• Moonraker (1979) as Hugo Drax
• The Passage (1979) as Renoudot
• Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été (1979)
• Ciné regards (1978) as Self
• The Left-Handed Woman (1978) as The Waiter
• The Risk of Living (1978) as narrator
• The Accuser (1977) as Abéraud
• A Dirty Story (1977) as The voyeur
• The Devil in the Box (1977) as Georges Aubert
• Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible (1977)
• Mr. Klein (1976) as Pierre
• Bartleby (1976) as L'Huissier
• Les Écrans déchirés (1976) as Michael
• Cygne II (1976) as Narrator (voice)
• La nuit du beau marin peut-être? (1976) as Boris
• Scrambled Eggs (1976) as The President of the Republic
• Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976) as The Vice Consul of Lahore
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) as Self
• Serious as Pleasure (1975) as Inspecteur Fournier
• Mad Enough to Kill (1975) as Stephane Mostri
• Né (1975) as Self
• The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) as Swan
• India Song (1975) as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
• Special Section (1975) as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
• The Pink Telephone (1975) as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
• Galileo (1975) as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
• The Track (1975) as David Sutter
• A Whale That Had a Toothache (1975) as Le peintre
• Aloïse (1975) as le médecin
• Stavisky... (1974) as Docteur Mézy
• La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (1974) as Smith
• The Phantom of Liberty (1974) as The Hatter
• Right to the city (1974) as Narrator
• Caravan to Vaccarès (1974) as Duc de Croyter
• Malaventure (1974) as Georges Mortier
• La Grande Paulette (1974) as Paul
• Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) as The Judge
• Film sur Hans Bellmer (1974) as Narrator
• No Pockets in a Shroud (1974) as Raymond
• The Suspects (1974) as Judge Souftries
• The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (1974) as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
• The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
• The Girl with the Cello (1973) as Philippe Lariel
• Out 1: Spectre (1973) as Thomas
• Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons (1973) as Stéphane
• Le Grand Échiquier (1972) as Self
• The Old Maid (1972) as Monod
• Chut ! (1972) as Sergel
• There Once Was a Cop (1972) as Commissioner Lucas
• Autumn (1972) as Julien, le réalisateur
• Les Années Lumière (1972) as Narrator (voice)
• Samedi soir (1971) as Self
• Murmur of the Heart (1971) as Father Henri
• Out 1 (1971) as Thomas
• Spring (1971) as L'homme qui fuit
• Jaune, Le Soleil (1971) as Un juif
• Law Breakers (1971) as Inspector Bertrand
• Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971) as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
• Les Cent Livres des Hommes (1970) as Socrates
• The Stud (1970) as Commissioner Donald Both
• Le revolver et la rose (1970) as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
• La Fenêtre (1970) as Bracquemont
• Un troisième (1970) as Le réalisateur
• Hibernatus (1969) as Edouard Loriebat
• Winter (1969) as Julien & Marc
• The Nail Clippers (1969) as Le mari
• Destroy, She Said (1969) as Stein
• Stolen Kisses (1968) as Georges Tabard
• The Man in the Buick (1968) as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
• The Bride Wore Black (1968) as Morane
• Zoo Story (1968) as Peter
• Concerto for an Exile (1968) as Un acteur au théâtre
• The Big Wash (1968) as Delaroche
• Judoka-Secret Agent (1967) as Thomas Perkins
• Order of the Daisy (1967) as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
• The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung (1967) as L'Avocat de la Défense
• Is Paris Burning? (1966) as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
• Your Money or Your Life (1966) as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
• Comédie (1966) as L'homme (M)
• The Ghostly Rental (1965) as Kernan
• Hail! Mafia (1965) as Hyman
• The Buddies (1965) as Lamendin
• Jaloux comme un tigre (1964) as The grimacing motorist
• Behold a Pale Horse (1964) as Reporter
• Le Petit Nicolas (1964) as The father
• The Little Misses (1964) as L'elève
• The Trial (1962) as Priest
• Crime Does Not Pay (1962) as Acteur
• Adorable Liar (1962) as Albert
• Le bureau des mariages (1962)
• The Immoral Moment (1962) as Mercier
• Snobs! (1962) as Charles Dufaut
• Les Trois Sœurs (1960) as Andreï Prodarov
• The Door Slams (1960) as Georges
• The Itchy Palm (1960) as Nobert
• A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958)
• It Happened in Aden (1956) as Sinclair