Highest rated movie: The Remains of the Day (1993)
Lowest rated movie: Jefferson in Paris (1995)
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Movies starring Michael Lonsdale have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
The Remains of the Day - released in 1993 - is Michael Lonsdale's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 613 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Michael Lonsdale is Jefferson in Paris - released in 1995 - with a score of 48% based on 28 reviews.
Michael Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931), sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows.
Lonsdale was raised by an Irish mother and an English father, initially in London and on Jersey, and later during the Second World War in Casablanca, Morocco. He moved to Paris to study painting in 1947 but was drawn in to the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24.
Lonsdale is bilingual and is in demand for English-language and French productions. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villainous Sir Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, the astute French detective Lebel in The Day of the Jackal, and M Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day.
On 25 February 2011, he won a Caesar award, his first, as a best supporting actor in Of Gods and Men.
Michael Lonsdale has acted in films with Vernon Dobtcheff, Delphine Seyrig, Féodor Atkine and Mike Marshall.
Michael Lonsdale has worked with these film directors: James Ivory, Fred Zinnemann, François Truffaut and Joseph Losey.
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