
Patrick Bauchau
Biography
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.
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. 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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Films to Die For as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025Museum of Regret as Don Patricio
2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
2019The Translators as Georges Fontaine
2019Against the Clock as Goldstucker
2015The Girl King as René Descartes
2015Me and Kaminski as Professor Megelbach
2015Amnesiac as Doctor
2015Mega Shark vs. Kolossus as Dr. Sergie Abramov
2015Every Thing Will Be Fine as Dad
2013Big Ass Spider! as Lucas
2013Crossing Lines as Christophe Bernard
2013Satellite of Love as Alex
2012The Boarder as Jarren Williams
2012Get the Gringo as Surgeon
2011The Smell of Success as Mr. Rose
2011Glenn, the Flying Robot as Richard Leblanc
2011Dharma Guns as Professor Starkov
2010Lafayette: The Lost Hero as Self - Lafayette's narration
2010Extraordinary Measures as CEO Erich Loring
20092012 as Roland Picard
2009The Perfect Sleep as Nikolai
2009Castle as Caine Powell
2008Possibility of an Island as Le prophéte
2008La velocità della luce as Rinaldo
2007Women's Murder Club
2007The Gray Man as Albert Fish
2007Thieves as Anticuario
2007Burn Notice as Lucien Balan
2007Chrysalis as Charles Becker
2007Lost Signs as Général de Lestrade
2007El amor y la ciudad
2007Suzanne as Frank
20079 Lives of Mara as Documentarian
2006Boy Culture as Gregory Talbot
2006Karla as Dr. Arnold
2005Numb3rs as Jean Stephanois
2005Vampires: The Turning as Raines
2004House as Dr. Rowan Case
2004Ray as Dr. Hacker
2004CSI: NY as Dr. Willems
2004Promised Land as Jim Williamson
2004Justice League Unlimited as Kasnian Monk (voice)
2003The Five Obstructions as The Perfect Man / Voice-over (Brussels) / Speaker (Cartoon)
2003Threat Matrix as Frederick Vorn
2003Carnivàle as Professor Ernst Lodz
2003Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003Shade as Malini
2002C.E.O.
2002Secretary as Dr. Twardon
2002The Dead Zone as Andrew Lyne
2002Panic Room as Stephen Altman
2002The Beatnicks as Hank
2001The Pretender: Island of the Haunted as Sydney
200124 as Jacob Rossler
2001Alias as Aldo Desantis
2001Jackpot as Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon
2001The Pretender 2001 as Sydney
2001Emmanuelle: A Hard Look as Himself
2000The Demon Within as Professor Giraud
2000The Cell as Lucien Baines
1999Twin Falls Idaho as Miles, a Doctor
1996We Free Kings as Baldassarre
1996The Pretender as Sydney
1996Enfants de salaud as Pierre-Yves
1996Kindred: The Embraced as Archon Raine
1995Serpent's Lair as Sam
1995The Interview as Padre Stephen Louis
1994Lisbon Story as Friedrich Monroe
1994Earth 2 as 'Govenor' Sheppard
1994The New Age as Jean Levy
1994Dark Side of Genius as Sherman McPhee
1994Clear and Present Danger as Enrique Rojas
1994Every Breath as Richard
1994Day of Reckoning as Andre Rouselle
1993And the Band Played On as Dr. Luc Montagnier
1993Acting on Impulse as Yoram Sussman
1993Havanera 1820 as Mister Johnson
1992Chain of Desire as Jerald Buckley
1992From Time to Time as L'interprète de H.G Wells
1992Robert's Movie as Robert
1991The Rapture as Vic
1991The Knot in the Necktie as Cesare
1991Terra Nova as Mr. Stal
1991Blood Ties as Eli Chelarin
1991The Most Natural Thing as Pablo
1990The Madonna and the Dragon as Pavel
1990Visioni private as Boris
1990Max Monroe: Loose Cannon as Kyle Lorden
1989Love Comedy as Vollard
1989Australia as André Gauthier
1989Errors of Youth as Paul
1989Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza) as Champier
1988The Music Teacher as Prince Scotti
1988Mount Royal as André Valeur
1987Accroche-cœur as Léo
1987Potlatch as Gregoire
1987Friendship's Death as Kubler
1987Ballad of Dog Beach as Capt. Dantas
1987Love Among Thieves as Alan Channing
1987Cross as Simon Leenhardt
1987Riviera as Riker
1986Family Business as Octave, the Brother (uncredited)
1986Lola as Robert
1985Kane & Abel as Ludwik
1985La moitié de l'amour
1985Folie suisse as Federico
1985A View to a Kill as Scarpine
1985The Night Wears Suspenders
1985Christopher Columbus as Don Rodrigo
1985Phenomena as Inspector Rudolf Geiger
1985Report from Hollywood
1984Nucleo Zero as Giovanni Dettore
1984Murder, She Wrote as Inspector Morel
1984Choose Me as Zack Antoine
1984The Public Woman as Ethel's Father
1984Emmanuelle 4 as Marc
1983First Desires as Jordan
1983Entre Nous as Carlier
1983Les Îles as Edouard
1982Enigma as Russian Soldier (voice)
1982Crystal Gazing as Husband
1982The State of Things as Friedrich Munro
1981Le petit Pommier as Pierre, l'ami de la mère
1980Guns as Tony
1971Columbo as Max Barsini
1969Fun and Games for Everyone
1968Tuset Street as Jorge Artigas
1967La Collectionneuse as Adrien
1963Suzanne’s Career as Frank (uncredited)
—The Knife Thrower as Cerle de Smet









