Michael Lonsdale

Birthday: 24 May 1931, Paris, France

Birth Name: Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch

Height: 185 cm

Michael Lonsdale was born on May 24, 1931 in Paris, France as Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch. He is an actor, known for Moonraker (1979), Munich (2005) and Ronin (1998).

[on Luis Buñuel] He was educated in fear. In the fear of religion. With all those processions, peop...Show more »

[on Luis Buñuel] He was educated in fear. In the fear of religion. With all those processions, people in hoods, all of that, he must have been terrified by it when he was very small. Now, he always talks about God in his films. So he's a bit like Marguerite Duras, who said, "I don't believe in God, but I talk about him." Show less «

[on imbibing US culture when growing up in Morocco in the 1940s] My parents became friends with the ...Show more »

[on imbibing US culture when growing up in Morocco in the 1940s] My parents became friends with the officers and they brought me along to see all the great movies by John Ford, George Cukor, Howard Hawks. I even saw Casablanca (1942) in Casablanca. It was amusing to see Hollywood's idea of Morocco, which was a kind of extravagant Egyptian fantasy. Of course, nobody looked anything like that. Show less «

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