Movie Trivia Question

[El Chivo]

The last three movies I've watched, selected at random from my collection, had the same obscure French actor in them.

I try not to let that happen, and it's hard sometimes, with actors like Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman in so many pictures, they often pop up twice in a row. But never three times.

Just in case you're interested in a puzzle, here are the three movies:

Munich

The Holcroft Covenant

Day of the Jackal

So, what's the actor's name?

For a tie-breaker, what was his first line in "Day of the Jackal?"

[Rusty]

I really don't know but I'll add this. If you liked the Day of the Jackal you should read the book, it's 10X better than the movie IMHO.

[pwl44m]

Nannette Fabre ?

[PaperPatch]

Mathieu Amalric???

[Topside]

Michael Lonsdale methinks.

T.

[vancelw]

Michael Lonsdale methinks.

T.

Me too.

That type of coincidence happens way more often than you would expect.
All it proves is that we watch to much TV/cinema

I used to bug my wife by always telling her what other movies actors had been in when we were watching visual media.
Now that I have a smartphone and Kindle fire, I drive her absolutely nuts.

[Griff]

Michael Lonsdale methinks.
T.

With 220 roles, I don't know that I'd say "obscure"! And roles from 1973, 1985 and 2005 wouldn't count as "...in a row" either. But, you probably meant the order in which you saw them... no?

[El Chivo]

Michael Lonsdale methinks.

T.

that's him.

And in Day of the Jackal, you can hear him narrate in the beginning, just after the assassination attempt - "The time elapsed from the first to the last shot was 7 seconds..."