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
''A View to a Kill'' is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from ...
'', ''
The Rapture'' and ''
Panic Room'', as well as the TV shows ''
The Pretender'' and ''
House
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''.
Biography
Early life
Patrick Bauchau was born in
Brussels
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, 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
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. He was raised in Belgium, Switzerland and England.
He attended
Oxford University
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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
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.
Career
Bauchau began his career in
French New Wave
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cinema, including acting in two films by
Éric Rohmer
Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (; 21 March 192011 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the Post-war, p ...
, ''
La Carrière de Suzanne'' (1963) and ''
La Collectionneuse'' (1967). He also participated in the
New German Cinema
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in films like
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Venice International Film ...
' ''
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
''A View to a Kill'' is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from ...
'' as Scarpine, ''
The Pretender'', ''
Kindred: The Embraced'', ''
The Rapture'', ''
Clear and Present Danger
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'', ''
The Cell'', ''
Panic Room'', ''
Boy Culture'', ''
Carnivà le
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'', ''
2012
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'', ''
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''.
In 1989 he starred as the murderer in
''Columbo'' episode "Murder: A Self Portrait". In 1992 he guest-starred on ''
Murder, She Wrote
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'' episode "The Monte Carlo Murders". In 2004 he appeared in the
Ray Charles
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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
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'' 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
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serial killer
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*
*
*
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* (This source only requires two people) with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separat ...
, rapist, and
cannibal
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Albert Fish
Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the Gra ...
. In 2009, he appeared as a guest star on ABC's show ''
Castle
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''. For movies, he often performs the French
dubbing
Dubbing (also known as re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and the video production process where supplementary recordings (known as doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production audio to cr ...
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
References
External links
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1938 births
Belgian male film actors
Living people
Belgian people of Russian descent
20th-century Belgian male actors
21st-century Belgian male actors
Expatriate male actors in the United States
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Male actors from Brussels