It's probably a shame that he will be best remembered for Moonraker as Drax than for his many credits in France.
Day of the Jackal is immense and Lonsdale made a worthy protagonist to Edward Fox's assassin Calthrop. The guy who played the French Minister was Alan Badel who I think was from Longsight.
I particularly remember Lonsdale as the Abbott in the Name of the Rose. Terrific film with Ron Perlman almost unrecognisable in an early role.