FrameThrower · Actors · Michael Lonsdale
Michael Lonsdale
8 films · 494 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–2007
Born 24 May 1931 · Paris, France · died 21 September 2020
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch, commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day (1993).
Lonsdale was born in Paris, the natural son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale Crouch and Simone Calderon (née Béraud).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 494 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–2007
- César Award for Best Supporting Actor2011
- Prix Marguerite Duras2016
- Medal of the City of Paris2011
- Globes de Cristal Awards2011
How their films are shot
Measured across 494 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michael takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Michael takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 494 frames from Michael Lonsdale's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.