Patrick Bauchau
Date of birth: 1938-12-06
Place of birth: Brussels, Belgium
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau , Πάτρικ Μπαουχάου, پاتریک بوچو
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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Lisbon Story
1994-12-16
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a frien
The Rapture
1991-10-04
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu
A View to a Kill
1985-05-24
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive
And the Band Played On
1993-09-11
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific commu
Panic Room
2002-03-29
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the even
Enigma
1982-10-15
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In ord
La Collectionneuse
1967-03-02
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the R
Les Îles
1983-03-16
The State of Things
1982-03-22
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman
Acting on Impulse
1993-07-10
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading he
The Cell
2000-08-18
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Thieves
2007-08-08
The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his abs
The Five Obstructions
2003-11-07
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri
Karla
2006-01-20
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001-12-10
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss
The Pretender 2001
2001-01-22
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorati
Emmanuelle 4
1984-02-15
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms he
Phenomena
1985-01-25
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Sw
Nucleo Zero
1984-11-14
Choose Me
1984-08-29
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and
The New Age
1994-09-16
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to th
Folie suisse
1985-06-10
Boy Culture
2006-09-15
A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships
Glenn, the Flying Robot
2011-07-05
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in
The Gray Man
2007-08-30
In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family
Vampires: The Turning
2005-01-02
An American kickboxer in Thailand joins a gang of vampire slayers to rescue his lover from a bloodsu
The Public Woman
1984-06-16
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Posse
The Perfect Sleep
2009-03-13
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left te
Tuset Street
1968-09-16
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs aroun
First Desires
1983-12-11
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up
Australia
1989-09-13
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian wom
Possibility of an Island
2008-10-09
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 no
The Music Teacher
1988-08-01
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to schoo
The Beatnicks
2002-02-21
The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd
Lola
1986-01-17
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To
Enfants de salaud
1996-04-03
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American a
Blood Ties
1991-05-27
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together
Chain of Desire
1992-05-26
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
Satellite of Love
2013-03-05
Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which
Serpent's Lair
1995-10-19
Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.
La moitié de l'amour
1985-08-01
Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to po
Robert's Movie
1992-04-09
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is
Guns
1980-11-18
The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On
Report from Hollywood
1985-01-01
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab
Big Ass Spider!
2013-10-17
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, i
Terra Nova
1991-07-11
Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan country
Love Comedy
1989-10-31
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him
Riviera
1987-01-01
A former spy named Kelly comes to the south of France to open a hotel for his post-spy career. Howev
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
2001-01-01
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultura
La velocità della luce
2008-04-18
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990-09-01
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Ray
2004-10-29
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by
Dharma Guns
2011-03-09
The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man
Ballad of Dog Beach
1987-03-12
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the
Twin Falls Idaho
1999-07-30
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While s
Me and Kaminski
2015-09-17
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes th
Chrysalis
2007-06-25
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeo
The Boarder
2012-07-25
Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of
Dark Side of Genius
1994-08-12
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where
Every Breath
1994-03-30
An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her r
Love Among Thieves
1987-02-23
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San
Day of Reckoning
1994-03-07
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote p
Secretary
2002-09-20
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding la
Suzanne
2007-03-07
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015-04-02
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer n
The Girl King
2015-12-11
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the cons
Against the Clock
2019-01-11
After a CIA Agent is seriously injured during a mission, his wife, a former CIA operative, becomes d
Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
2015-06-18
In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsda
Entre Nous
1983-04-06
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea
Amnesiac
2015-08-14
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only t
Errors of Youth
1989-05-01
The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles tr
2012
2009-10-10
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r
Accroche-cœur
1987-11-25
Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event
The Most Natural Thing
1991-01-24
Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns t
Extraordinary Measures
2010-01-21
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two you
The Knife Thrower
A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crim
The Demon Within
2000-10-27
A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco.
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
2010-09-13
No one in recorded history has suffered a fate quite like Lafayette. Once, he was the most famous ma
We Free Kings
1996-12-20
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three King
The Interview
1995-09-10
Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazil
Promised Land
2004-08-10
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the l
Jackpot
2001-07-27
Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child
The Translators
2019-12-20
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are co
Fun and Games for Everyone
1969-12-22
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset'
Clear and Present Danger
1994-08-03
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia
Potlatch
1987-10-15
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday
Get the Gringo
2012-03-15
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survi
9 Lives of Mara
2007-01-01
When his widower father starts dating a darkly mesmerizing woman, 12-year-old Robin believes she's w
El amor y la ciudad
2007-04-19
It tells the story of three people who live in the same building. On the one hand a pair something u
Shade
2003-05-18
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They fi
Havanera 1820
1993-05-21
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods tha
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende
Family Business
1986-03-19
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to s
Friendship's Death
1987-08-17
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go t
Suzanne’s Career
1963-02-27
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl w
Le petit Pommier
1981-02-04
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreate
C.E.O.
2002-10-22
Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.
The Knot in the Necktie
1991-08-14
The fourteen-year-old Carlino, a restless and rebellious boy, lives with his parents Cesare and Bian
The Night Wears Suspenders
1985-04-20
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads hi
The Smell of Success
2011-08-19
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livel
Visioni private
1990-08-04
Cross
1987-02-04
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law
Museum of Regret
2025-10-04
A television repairman makes a repair.
From Time to Time
1992-04-12
In the Visionarium, the Timekeeper is a robot testing a new time machine. Because of the potential d
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003-08-21
A look behind the story and production of the HBO dramatic series Carnivàle.
Crystal Gazing
1982-09-15
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil,
Films to Die For
2025-10-23