Portrait of Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Bauchau

Acting

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.

Born: December 6, 1938

Place of Birth: Brussels, Belgium

Filmography

2025
Films to Die For

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2025
Museum of Regret

as Don Patricio

2019
The Translators

as Georges Fontaine

2019
Against the Clock

as Goldstucker

2015
The Girl King

as René Descartes

2015
Me and Kaminski

as Professor Megelbach

2015
Amnesiac

as Doctor

2015
Mega Shark vs. Kolossus

as Dr. Sergie Abramov

2013
2013
Crossing Lines

as Christophe Bernard

2012
The Boarder

as Jarren Williams

2012
Get the Gringo

as Surgeon

2011
2011
Glenn, the Flying Robot

as Richard Leblanc

2011
Dharma Guns

as Professor Starkov

2010
Lafayette: The Lost Hero

as Lafayette's narration

2010
Extraordinary Measures

as CEO Erich Loring

2009
2012

as Roland Picard

2009
2009
Castle

as Caine Powell

2008
2007
The Gray Man

as Albert Fish

2007
Thieves

as Anticuario

2007
Burn Notice

as Lucien Balan

2007
Chrysalis

as Charles Becker

2007
Lost Signs

as Général de Lestrade

2007
Suzanne

as Frank

2007
9 Lives of Mara

as Documentarian

2006
Boy Culture

as Gregory Talbot

2006
Karla

as Dr. Arnold

2005
Numb3rs

as Jean Stephanois

2004
House

as Dr. Rowan Case

2004
Ray

as Dr. Hacker

2004
CSI: NY

as Dr. Willems

2004
Justice League Unlimited

as Kasnian Monk (voice)

2003
The Five Obstructions

as The Perfect Man / Voice-over (Brussels) / Speaker (Cartoon)

2003
Threat Matrix

as Frederick Vorn

2003
Carnivàle

as Professor Ernst Lodz

2003
Shade

as Malini

2002
2002
Secretary

as Dr. Twardon

2002
The Dead Zone

as Andrew Lyne

2002
Panic Room

as Stephen Altman

2002
2001
24

as Jacob Rossler

2001
Alias

as Aldo Desantis

2001
Jackpot

as Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon

2001
2000
The Demon Within

as Professor Giraud

2000
The Cell

as Lucien Baines

1999
Twin Falls Idaho

as Miles, a Doctor

1996
We Free Kings

as Baldassarre

1996
The Pretender

as Sydney

1996
Enfants de salaud

as Pierre-Yves

1996
Kindred: The Embraced

as Archon Raine

1995
1995
The Interview

as Padre Stephen Louis

1994
Lisbon Story

as Friedrich Monroe

1994
Earth 2

as 'Govenor' Sheppard

1994
The New Age

as Jean Levy

1994
Dark Side of Genius

as Sherman McPhee

1994
Clear and Present Danger

as Enrique Rojas

1994
Every Breath

as Richard

1994
Day of Reckoning

as Andre Rouselle

1993
And the Band Played On

as Dr. Luc Montagnier

1993
Acting on Impulse

as Yoram Sussman

1993
Havanera 1820

as Mister Johnson

1992
Chain of Desire

as Jerald Buckley

1992
From Time to Time

as L'interprète de H.G Wells

1992
1991
1991
Terra Nova

as Mr. Stal

1991
Blood Ties

as Eli Chelarin

1990
1989
Love Comedy

as Vollard

1989
Australia

as André Gauthier

1989
1988
The Music Teacher

as Prince Scotti

1987
1987
Potlatch

as Gregoire

1987
1987
Ballad of Dog Beach

as Capt. Dantas

1987
Love Among Thieves

as Alan Channing

1987
Cross

as Simon Leenhardt

1986
Family Business

as Octave, the Brother (uncredited)

1986
Lola

as Robert

1985
Kane & Abel

as Ludwik

1985
A View to a Kill

as Scarpine

1985
Christopher Columbus

as Don Rodrigo

1985
Phenomena

as Inspector Rudolf Geiger

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Inspector Morel

1984
Choose Me

as Zack Antoine

1984
The Public Woman

as Ethel's Father

1984
1983
First Desires

as Jordan

1983
Entre Nous

as Carlier

1983
Les Îles

as Edouard

1982
Enigma

as Russian Soldier (voice)

1982
Crystal Gazing

as Husband

1982
The State of Things

as Friedrich Munro

1981
Le petit Pommier

as Pierre, l'ami de la mère

1980
Guns

as Tony

1971
Columbo

as Max Barsini

1968
Tuset Street

as Jorge Artigas

1967
1963
Suzanne’s Career

as Frank (uncredited)

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The Knife Thrower

as Cerle de Smet