Michael Lonsdale: movies and TV shows
Michael Lonsdale has 212 credits in the archive: 197 films and 15 TV series, from 1956 to 2025. Highest rated: Le Grand Échiquier (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1956 – 2025 · busiest year: 1974 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Life of Mirrors | Film | — | 94 | |
| 2024 | African Glory | Christopher Columbus | Film | — | 93 |
| 2023 | The Outsider | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 10.0 | 92 |
| 2022 | An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose | Self (archive footage) | Film | 2.0 | 91 |
| 2020 | Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff | Self | Film | 6.0 | 89 |
| 2019 | Degas and I | Edgar Degas | Film | 7.5 | 88 |
| 2019 | Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique | Narrator | Film | 8.7 | 88 |
| 2017 | Bazin's Film | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2016 | Sculpt | Film | 1.0 | 85 | |
| 2016 | Les Filles au Moyen-Âge | Daniel | Film | 6.8 | 85 |
| 2016 | The First, the Last | Jean-Berchmans | Film | 6.5 | 85 |
| 2016 | Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres | Self | Film | 10.0 | 85 |
| 2016 | The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited | Self | Film | 6.3 | 85 |
| 2015 | The Visit | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2014 | Maestro | Cedric Rovère | Film | 6.2 | 83 |
| 2014 | Rosenn | (voice) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2014 | J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds | (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 83 |
| 2014 | N: The Madness Of Reason | Narrator | Film | 6.0 | 83 |
| 2013 | Le Renard jaune | Jean Virno | Film | 5.5 | 82 |
| 2012 | Gebo and the Shadow | Gebo | Film | 6.6 | 81 |
| 2011 | Hitler in Hollywood | Michael Lonsdale | Film | 6.2 | 80 |
| 2011 | Free Men | Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit | Film | 5.6 | 80 |
| 2011 | Titeuf | Le psy (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 80 |
| 2011 | The Cardboard Village | Old Priest | Film | 5.7 | 80 |
| 2011 | Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux | Narrateur | Film | — | 80 |
| 2010 | Of Gods and Men | Luc | Film | 6.7 | 79 |
| 2009 | Agora | Theon | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 2009 | Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe | Le Grand Loustalot | TV | 4.8 | 78 |
| 2009 | You'll Miss Me | Max | Film | 4.5 | 78 |
| 2008 | Les amants cinéma | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2008 | The Man from London | Kocsmáros (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 77 |
| 2008 | Le Silence de l'épervier | Antoine Carsac | TV | — | 77 |
| 2007 | The Last Mistress | le vicomte Prony | Film | 5.8 | 76 |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | The old blind man (segment "Le Don") | Film | 6.5 | 76 |
| 2007 | Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure | Bartleby (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 76 |
| 2007 | Heartbeat Detector | Mathias Jüst | Film | 5.6 | 76 |
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Inquisitor General | Film | 6.6 | 75 |
| 2006 | Jeanne, à petits pas | Louis | Film | — | 75 |
| 2006 | Les Mains d'Andréa | Film | — | 75 | |
| 2005 | Munich | Papa | Film | 7.1 | 74 |
| 2005 | The Separation | Paul Doumer | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2005 | Gentille | Jean | Film | 5.8 | 74 |
| 2005 | The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Professor Stangerson | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2005 | Invisible | Le gardien | Film | 4.6 | 74 |
| 2005 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Robert | Film | 5.3 | 74 |
| 2004 | Adieu | Serge | Film | 7.3 | 73 |
| 2004 | Five Times Two | Bernard | Film | 6.5 | 73 |
| 2004 | Under a False Name | David | Film | 5.7 | 73 |
| 2003 | The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Stangerson | Film | 6.6 | 72 |
| 2003 | Le Furet | Don Salvadore | Film | 4.4 | 72 |
| 2003 | Kaena: The Prophecy | Opaz (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 72 |
| 2002 | Le Mythe Cathare | Narrator | Film | — | 71 |
| 2001 | Those Facing Us | Mikaël | Film | 6.5 | 70 |
| 2000 | Actors | Man walking down the street | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2000 | Inside 'Moonraker' | Self | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 2000 | Speaking of Buñuel | Self | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2000 | Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète | Self | Film | 7.5 | 69 |
| 2000 | Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 69 |
| 1999 | A Monkey's Tale | Maître Flavius (Voice) | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 1998 | Ronin | Jean-Pierre | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 1998 | Don Juan | Don Luis | Film | 4.5 | 67 |
| 1998 | Let There Be Light! | Monseigneur Loublié | Film | 6.5 | 67 |
| 1997 | Noise of Love and War | The director | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 1997 | Mauvais Genre | Honoré de Balzac | Film | 4.2 | 66 |
| 1997 | Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath | (voice) | Film | — | 66 |
| 1996 | La Plante Humaine | Michel | Film | 8.5 | 65 |
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Louis XVI | Film | 5.1 | 64 |
| 1995 | Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud | Dollabella | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1995 | Vroum-vroum | Film | 7.0 | 64 | |
| 1994 | Dieu sait quoi | Narrator | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Dupont D'Ivry | Film | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1993 | Woyzeck | Le capitaine | Film | 7.0 | 62 |
| 1993 | L'ordre du jour | Stark | Film | 3.7 | 62 |
| 1991 | Maigret | Guillaume Serre | TV | 7.9 | 60 |
| 1991 | Maigret | Sir Lampson | TV | 7.9 | 60 |
| 1991 | My Life Is Hell | Gabriel | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 1991 | Seul face au crime | Procuratore | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 1990 | Film sur Georges Perec | Self | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1990 | Out 1 | Thomas | Film | 7.1 | 59 |
| 1989 | Cela s'appelle l'amour | Self | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1989 | Souvenir | Xavier Lorion | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 1989 | Earthen Man | (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1988 | The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | Cammerschulze | Film | 6.6 | 57 |
| 1987 | Der Madonna-Mann | Tanzmann | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | The Abbot | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1986 | Rendez-vous manqués | Moralès | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1986 | L'air d'aimer | Raymond | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Philippe Jolivet | TV | 4.3 | 55 |
| 1986 | The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' | Self | Film | 6.7 | 55 |
| 1986 | Emile Reynaud | Narrator | Film | — | 55 |
| 1986 | The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey | Narrator | Film | — | 55 |
| 1985 | The Holcroft Covenant | Ernst Manfredi | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 1985 | The Insomniac on the Bridge | Antonie | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1985 | Billy Ze Kick | Commissaire Bellanger | Film | 5.6 | 54 |
| 1985 | Le Génie du faux | Constantin Escher | TV | 9.0 | 54 |
| 1984 | Good King Dagobert | Saint Eloi | Film | 4.2 | 53 |
| 1984 | The Colour of Words | Self | Film | 9.0 | 53 |
| 1984 | The Judge | Le docteur | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1983 | Erendira | Senator Onésimo Sanchez | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1983 | The Boulugres | Le roi (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 52 |
| 1983 | Chronopolis | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1983 | Une jeunesse | Béjardy | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1983 | La Rényon lontan | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 52 |
| 1982 | Smiley's People | Anton Grigoriev | TV | 7.7 | 51 |
| 1982 | Enigma | Bodley | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1982 | Le rose et le blanc | Léon | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1982 | Sweet Inquest on Violence | Ash, the financier | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 1982 | Mora | Film | 7.3 | 51 | |
| 1982 | Trompe-l'oeil | Self (voice) | Film | — | 51 |
| 1982 | Mersonne ne m'aime | Commissioner Bancau | Film | 10.0 | 51 |
| 1981 | Un paquebot dans la tête | Roland Gougean-Roland | Film | 9.0 | 50 |
| 1981 | Alone | Ludovic | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1981 | The Bunker | Martin Bormann | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1981 | The Games of Countess Dolingen | Bertrand Haines-Pearson | Film | 3.3 | 50 |
| 1980 | Jean-Sans-Terre | Jean Papeuil | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1979 | Moonraker | Hugo Drax | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 1979 | The Passage | Renoudot | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1979 | Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été | Film | 10.0 | 48 | |
| 1978 | Ciné regards | Self | TV | — | 47 |
| 1978 | The Left-Handed Woman | The Waiter | Film | 6.9 | 47 |
| 1978 | The Risk of Living | narrator | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1977 | The Accuser | Abéraud | Film | 6.2 | 46 |
| 1977 | A Dirty Story | The voyeur | Film | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1977 | The Devil in the Box | Georges Aubert | Film | 6.0 | 46 |
| 1977 | Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1976 | Mr. Klein | Pierre | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1976 | Bartleby | L'Huissier | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1976 | Les Écrans déchirés | Michael | Film | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1976 | Cygne II | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1976 | La nuit du beau marin peut-être? | Boris | Film | — | 45 |
| 1976 | Scrambled Eggs | The President of the Republic | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1976 | Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert | The Vice Consul of Lahore | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | TV | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1975 | Serious as Pleasure | Inspecteur Fournier | Film | 3.9 | 44 |
| 1975 | Mad Enough to Kill | Stephane Mostri | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1975 | Né | Self | Film | 10.0 | 44 |
| 1975 | The Romantic Englishwoman | Swan | Film | 5.4 | 44 |
| 1975 | India Song | Le Vice-Consul de Lahore | Film | 6.4 | 44 |
| 1975 | Special Section | Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur | Film | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1975 | The Pink Telephone | M. Morrison, président de la Fielding | Film | 4.8 | 44 |
| 1975 | Galileo | Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII) | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 1975 | The Track | David Sutter | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1975 | A Whale That Had a Toothache | Le peintre | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1975 | Aloïse | le médecin | Film | 6.2 | 44 |
| 1974 | Stavisky... | Docteur Mézy | Film | 5.9 | 43 |
| 1974 | La Confession d'un enfant du siècle | Smith | TV | — | 43 |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Liberty | The Hatter | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1974 | Right to the city | Narrator | Film | — | 43 |
| 1974 | Caravan to Vaccarès | Duc de Croyter | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1974 | Malaventure | Georges Mortier | TV | — | 43 |
| 1974 | La Grande Paulette | Paul | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1974 | Successive Slidings of Pleasure | The Judge | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1974 | Film sur Hans Bellmer | Narrator | Film | 6.0 | 43 |
| 1974 | No Pockets in a Shroud | Raymond | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1974 | The Suspects | Judge Souftries | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1974 | The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown | Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate | Film | 5.3 | 43 |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel | Film | 7.5 | 42 |
| 1973 | The Girl with the Cello | Philippe Lariel | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1973 | Out 1: Spectre | Thomas | Film | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1973 | Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons | Stéphane | Film | 4.8 | 42 |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV | 8.0 | 41 |
| 1972 | The Old Maid | Monod | Film | 5.9 | 41 |
| 1972 | Chut ! | Sergel | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1972 | There Once Was a Cop | Commissioner Lucas | Film | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1972 | Autumn | Julien, le réalisateur | Film | 7.5 | 41 |
| 1972 | Les Années Lumière | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 41 |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self | TV | 6.0 | 40 |
| 1971 | Murmur of the Heart | Father Henri | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1971 | Out 1 | Thomas | TV | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1971 | Spring | L'homme qui fuit | Film | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1971 | Jaune, Le Soleil | Un juif | Film | 5.2 | 40 |
| 1971 | Law Breakers | Inspector Bertrand | Film | 5.6 | 40 |
| 1971 | Papa, the Lil' Boats | Hippolyte the brother of Marylène | Film | 4.6 | 40 |
| 1970 | Les Cent Livres des Hommes | Socrates | TV | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1970 | The Stud | Commissioner Donald Both | Film | 4.9 | 39 |
| 1970 | Le revolver et la rose | Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky | Film | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1970 | La Fenêtre | Bracquemont | Film | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1970 | Un troisième | Le réalisateur | Film | — | 39 |
| 1969 | Hibernatus | Edouard Loriebat | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1969 | Winter | Julien & Marc | Film | 7.8 | 38 |
| 1969 | The Nail Clippers | Le mari | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1969 | Destroy, She Said | Stein | Film | 6.9 | 38 |
| 1968 | Stolen Kisses | Georges Tabard | Film | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1968 | The Man in the Buick | L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J. | Film | 6.4 | 37 |
| 1968 | The Bride Wore Black | Morane | Film | 7.1 | 37 |
| 1968 | Zoo Story | Peter | Film | 8.0 | 37 |
| 1968 | Concerto for an Exile | Un acteur au théâtre | Film | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1968 | The Big Wash | Delaroche | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1967 | Judoka-Secret Agent | Thomas Perkins | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1967 | Order of the Daisy | Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 36 |
| 1967 | The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung | L'Avocat de la Défense | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? | Debu-Bridel (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 35 |
| 1966 | Your Money or Your Life | Speaker at the Shy People's Club | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1966 | Comédie | L'homme (M) | Film | 8.7 | 35 |
| 1965 | The Ghostly Rental | Kernan | Film | 7.7 | 34 |
| 1965 | Hail! Mafia | Hyman | Film | 7.4 | 34 |
| 1965 | The Buddies | Lamendin | Film | 5.3 | 34 |
| 1964 | Jaloux comme un tigre | The grimacing motorist | Film | 4.7 | 33 |
| 1964 | Behold a Pale Horse | Reporter | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1964 | Le Petit Nicolas | The father | Film | — | 33 |
| 1964 | The Little Misses | L'elève | Film | — | 33 |
| 1962 | The Trial | Priest | Film | 7.4 | 31 |
| 1962 | Crime Does Not Pay | Acteur | Film | 5.5 | 31 |
| 1962 | Adorable Liar | Albert | Film | 5.8 | 31 |
| 1962 | Le bureau des mariages | Film | 7.0 | 31 | |
| 1962 | The Immoral Moment | Mercier | Film | 5.2 | 31 |
| 1962 | Snobs! | Charles Dufaut | Film | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1960 | Les Trois Sœurs | Andreï Prodarov | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1960 | The Door Slams | Georges | Film | 7.0 | 29 |
| 1960 | The Itchy Palm | Nobert | Film | 7.5 | 29 |
| 1958 | A Bullet in the Gun Barrel | Film | 5.4 | 27 | |
| 1956 | It Happened in Aden | Sinclair | Film | 7.0 | 25 |