Patrick Bauchau
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Patrick Bauchau | |
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| Born | 6 December 1938 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Brigitte Bardot (sister-in-law) |
Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his roles in the films A View to a Kill, The Rapture and Panic Room, as well as the TV shows The Pretender and House.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Patrick Bauchau was born in Brussels, Belgium on 6 December 1938, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, lawyer, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian Underground during World War II.[1][2] He was raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England.
He attended Oxford University on an academic scholarship and speaks German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and a little Russian, Portuguese and Dutch.
He is married to the French actress and writer Mijanou Bardot, and lives in Los Angeles.
Career
[edit]Bauchau began his career in French New Wave cinema, including acting in two films by Éric Rohmer, La Carrière de Suzanne (1963) and La Collectionneuse (1967). He also participated in the New German Cinema in films like Wim Wenders' Der Stand der Dinge (1982).
Bauchau is better known for his roles in American television. Bauchau has starred in many different TV shows and movies, including Choose Me, A View to a Kill as Scarpine, The Pretender, Kindred: The Embraced, The Rapture, Clear and Present Danger, The Cell, Panic Room, Boy Culture, Carnivàle, 2012, Extraordinary Measures and Get the Gringo. In 1987, he was considered for the part of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.[3][4] In 1989 he starred as the murderer in Columbo: Murder: A Self Portrait. In 1992 he guest-starred on Murder, She Wrote: The Monte Carlo Murders. In 2004 he appeared in the Ray Charles biopic Ray as Dr. Hacker. In 2005, he appeared as a guest star on ABC's Alias, as well as on the Fox shows House and 24.
In 2007 Bauchau took the lead dramatic role in the biographical movie The Gray Man—a thriller which dramatised the crimes of the American sadomasochistic serial killer, rapist, and cannibal Albert Fish. In 2009, he appeared as a guest star on ABC's show Castle. For movies, he often performs the French dubbing of his characters himself, as he is a native French speaker. In 2011, Bauchau guest-starred on the episode "Eye for an Eye" of USA's Burn Notice.
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | La Carrière de Suzanne | Frank | Uncredited |
| 1967 | La collectionneuse | Adrien | |
| 1968 | Tuset Street | Jorge Artigas | |
| 1980 | Fun and Games for Everyone | ||
| 1981 | Guns | Tony | |
| 1982 | Der Stand der Dinge | Friedrich Munro | |
| 1982 | Crystal Gazing | Husband | |
| 1982 | Enigma | ||
| 1983 | Les îles | Edouard | |
| 1983 | Coup de foudre | Carlier | |
| 1983 | Premiers désirs | Jordan | |
| 1984 | Emmanuelle 4 | Marc | |
| 1984 | La femme publique | Le père d'Ethel | |
| 1984 | Choose Me | Zack Antoine | |
| 1984 | Le voyage d'hiver | Adam | |
| 1985 | Phenomena | Inspector Rudolf Geiger | |
| 1985 | La nuit porte jarretelles | ||
| 1985 | Christopher Columbus | Don Rodrigo | TV mini-series, 4 episodes |
| 1985 | A View to a Kill | Scarpine | |
| 1985 | Kane & Abel | Ludwik | TV mini-series, 1 episode |
| 1985 | Folie suisse | Federico | |
| 1986 | Lola | Robert | |
| 1986 | Conseil de famille | Octave, le frère | Uncredited |
| 1986 | Motten im Licht | ||
| 1987 | Cross | Simon Leenhardt | |
| 1987 | Balada da Praia dos Cães | Capt. Dantas | |
| 1987 | Friendship's Death | Kubler | |
| 1987 | Arhangelos tou pathous | Gregoire | |
| 1987 | Accroche-coeur | Léo | |
| 1988 | Mount Royal | Andre Valeur | |
| 1988 | Le maître de musique | Prince Scotti | |
| 1989 | Erreur de jeunesse | Paul | |
| 1989 | Australia | André Gauthier | |
| 1989 | Comédie d'amour | Vollard | |
| 1989 | Visioni private | Boris | |
| 1989 | Columbo (episode: ‘Murder, A Self Portrait’) | Max Barsini | |
| 1991 | Lo más natural | Pablo | |
| 1991 | Il nodo alla cravatta | ||
| 1991 | The Rapture | Vic / Sharon's boyfriend | |
| 1991 | Terra Nova | Mr. Stal | |
| 1991 | Craven | ||
| 1991 | Cómo levantar 1000 kilos | ||
| 1992 | Robert's Movie | Robert | |
| 1992 | Chain of Desire | Jerald Buckley | |
| 1992 | Complicazioni nella notte | ||
| 1993 | Havanera 1820 | Mr. Johnson | |
| 1993 | Acting on Impulse | Yoram Sussman | |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | Dr. Luc Montagnier | TV film |
| 1994 | Every Breath | Richard | |
| 1994 | Clear and Present Danger | Enrique Rojas | |
| 1994 | Dark Side of Genius | Sherman McPhee | |
| 1994 | The New Age | Jean Levy | |
| 1994 | Lisbon Story | Friedrich Monroe | |
| 1995 | The Interview | Padre Stephen Louis | |
| 1996 | Serpent's Lair | Sam | |
| 1996 | Enfants de salaud | Pierre-Yves | |
| 1996 | We Free Kings | Balthazar | |
| 1996 | Kindred: The Embraced | Archon Raine | 8 episodes |
| 1996-2000 | The Pretender | Sydney | 86 episodes |
| 1998 | Holy Man | Guy at the party who is hypnotised | Uncredited |
| 1999 | Twin Falls Idaho | Miles, a Doctor | |
| 2000 | The Cell | Lucien Baines | |
| 2000 | The Sculptress | Professor Giraud | |
| 2001 | The Pretender 2001 | Sydney | TV movie |
| 2001 | The Pretender: Island of the Haunted | Sydney | TV movie |
| 2001 | The Beatnicks | Hank | |
| 2001 | Jackpot | Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon | |
| 2002 | Secretary | Dr. Twardon | |
| 2002 | Panic Room | Stephen Altman | |
| 2002 | C.E.O. | Monsieur de Reaumur | |
| 2003 | The Five Obstructions | Malini | |
| 2003 - 2005 | Carnivale (TV series) | Lodz | |
| 2004 | Promised Land | Jim Williamson | |
| 2004 | Ray | Dr. Hacker | |
| 2005 | Vampires: The Turning | Raines | |
| 2005 | Alias | Dr. Desantis | |
| 2005 | House | Dr. Rowan Chase | Season 1, episode 13 - Cursed |
| 2006 | Karla | Dr. Arnold | |
| 2006 | El amor y la ciudad | ||
| 2006 | Boy Culture | Gregory Talbot | |
| 2006 | Suzanne | Frank | |
| 2007 | Thieves | Anticuario | |
| 2007 | The Memory Thief | Mr. Fisher | |
| 2007 | Chrysalis | Charles Becker | |
| 2007 | The Gray Man | Albert Fish | |
| 2007 | 9 Lives of Mara | Documentarian | |
| 2008 | La velocità della luce | Rinaldo | |
| 2008 | La Possibilité d'une île | Le prophète | |
| 2009 | The Smell of Success | Mr. Rose | |
| 2009 | The Perfect Sleep | Nikolai | |
| 2009 | 2012 | Roland Picard | |
| 2009 | Extraordinary Measures | CEO Erich Loring | |
| 2009 | “Numb3rs” | Jean Stephanois | Sneakerhead |
| 2010 | Glenn, the Flying Robot | Richard | |
| 2010 | Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov) | Le professeur Starkov | |
| 2011 | Burn Notice | Lucien Balan | Season 5, episode 9 - Eye for an Eye |
| 2012 | Get the Gringo | Surgeon | |
| 2012 | Satellite of Love | Alex | |
| 2012 | Ghost Soldiers | Kitcher | |
| 2013 | Big Ass Spider! | Dr. Lucas | |
| 2013 | Four Senses | Joseph | |
| 2014 | Amnesiac | Doctor | |
| 2015 | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Dad | |
| 2015 | Mega Shark vs. Kolossus | Dr. Sergie Abramov | |
| 2015 | The Girl King | René Descartes | |
| 2015 | Me and Kaminski | Prof. Megelbach |
References
[edit]- ^ Patrick Bauchau Biography (1938–)
- ^ Patrick Bauchau Biography / Wim Wenders – The Official Site Archived 17 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Memo That Never Was to be Seen". November 2006.
- ^ "STAR TREK/Casting". 25 August 2010.
