Michael Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931) is one of cinema’s great character actors. In a career lasting over fifty years he has appeared in more than 200 film and television productions, including international blockbusters such as The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Moonraker (1979), classics of French cinema such as Francois Truffaut's Baisers voles (1968) and Louis Malle's Le Souffle au Coeur (1971), and offbeat experimental works such as Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971) and Jean Eustache's Une sale histoire (1977).