Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Bauchau

Birthday: 1938-12-06

Place of Birth: Brussels, Belgium

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
Lisbon Story

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a frien...

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The Rapture
The Rapture

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu...

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A View to a Kill
A View to a Kill

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive...

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And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific commu...

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Panic Room
Panic Room

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the even...

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Enigma
Enigma

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In ord...

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La Collectionneuse
La Collectionneuse

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the R...

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Les Îles
Les Îles

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The State of Things
The State of Things

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman...

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Acting on Impulse
Acting on Impulse

An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading he...

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The Cell
The Cell

A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim....

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Thieves
Thieves

The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his abs...

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The Five Obstructions
The Five Obstructions

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...

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Karla
Karla

Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k...

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The Pretender 2001
The Pretender 2001

Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorati...

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The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted

Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss ...

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Emmanuelle 4
Emmanuelle 4

In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms he...

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Phenomena
Phenomena

A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Sw...

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Nucleo Zero
Nucleo Zero

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Choose Me
Choose Me

Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and ...

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The New Age
The New Age

Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to th...

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Folie suisse
Folie suisse

Adrien Daubigny, director at INSEE, warns his wife Anna that he now wants to lead his life by chance...

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Boy Culture
Boy Culture

A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships...

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Glenn, the Flying Robot
Glenn, the Flying Robot

Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in ...

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The Gray Man
The Gray Man

In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family ...

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Vampires: The Turning
Vampires: The Turning

An American kickboxer in Thailand joins a gang of vampire slayers to rescue his lover from a bloodsu...

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The Public Woman
The Public Woman

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Posse...

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The Perfect Sleep
The Perfect Sleep

In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left te...

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Tuset Street
Tuset Street

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs aroun...

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First Desires
First Desires

Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up...

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Australia
Australia

Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian wom...

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Possibility of an Island
Possibility of an Island

La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 no...

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The Music Teacher
The Music Teacher

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to schoo...

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The Beatnicks
The Beatnicks

The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd ...

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Lola
Lola

Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To ...

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Enfants de salaud
Enfants de salaud

Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American a...

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Blood Ties
Blood Ties

Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together...

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Chain of Desire
Chain of Desire

A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire....

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Satellite of Love
Satellite of Love

Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which ...

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Serpent's Lair
Serpent's Lair

Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage....

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La moitié de l'amour
La moitié de l'amour

Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to po...

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Robert's Movie
Robert's Movie

Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is ...

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Guns
Guns

The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On...

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Report from Hollywood
Report from Hollywood

“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab ...

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Big Ass Spider!
Big Ass Spider!

When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, i...

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Terra Nova
Terra Nova

Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan country...

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Love Comedy
Love Comedy

According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him...

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Riviera
Riviera

A former spy named Kelly comes to the south of France to open a hotel for his post-spy career. Howev...

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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultura...

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La velocità della luce
La velocità della luce

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The Madonna and the Dragon
The Madonna and the Dragon

Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines....

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Ray
Ray

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

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Dharma Guns
Dharma Guns

The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man ...

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Ballad of Dog Beach
Ballad of Dog Beach

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the...

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Twin Falls Idaho
Twin Falls Idaho

Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While s...

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Me and Kaminski
Me and Kaminski

Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes th...

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Chrysalis
Chrysalis

Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeo...

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The Boarder
The Boarder

Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of...

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Dark Side of Genius
Dark Side of Genius

Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where...

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Every Breath
Every Breath

An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her r...

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Love Among Thieves
Love Among Thieves

Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San...

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Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning

Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote p...

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Secretary
Secretary

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding la...

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Suzanne
Suzanne

After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max...

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Every Thing Will Be Fine
Every Thing Will Be Fine

One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer n...

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The Girl King
The Girl King

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the cons...

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Against the Clock
Against the Clock

After a CIA Agent is seriously injured during a mission, his wife, a former CIA operative, becomes d...

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Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
Mega Shark vs. Kolossus

In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsda...

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Entre Nous
Entre Nous

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea...

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Amnesiac
Amnesiac

The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only t...

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Errors of Youth
Errors of Youth

The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles tr...

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2012
2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r...

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Accroche-cœur
Accroche-cœur

Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event...

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The Most Natural Thing
The Most Natural Thing

Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns t...

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Extraordinary Measures
Extraordinary Measures

Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two you...

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The Knife Thrower
The Knife Thrower

A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crim...

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The Demon Within
The Demon Within

A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco....

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Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Lafayette: The Lost Hero

No one in recorded history has suffered a fate quite like Lafayette. Once, he was the most famous ma...

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We Free Kings
We Free Kings

Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three King...

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The Interview
The Interview

Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazil...

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Promised Land
Promised Land

The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the l...

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Jackpot
Jackpot

Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child ...

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The Translators
The Translators

Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are co...

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Fun and Games for Everyone
Fun and Games for Everyone

“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset'...

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Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...

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Potlatch
Potlatch

Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday...

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Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survi...

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9 Lives of Mara
9 Lives of Mara

When his widower father starts dating a darkly mesmerizing woman, 12-year-old Robin believes she's w...

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El amor y la ciudad
El amor y la ciudad

It tells the story of three people who live in the same building. On the one hand a pair something u...

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Shade
Shade

Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They fi...

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Havanera 1820
Havanera 1820

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods tha...

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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Wim Wenders, Desperado

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...

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Family Business
Family Business

French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to s...

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Friendship's Death
Friendship's Death

A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go t...

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Suzanne’s Career
Suzanne’s Career

In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl w...

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Le petit Pommier
Le petit Pommier

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreate...

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C.E.O.
C.E.O.

Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted....

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The Knot in the Necktie
The Knot in the Necktie

The fourteen-year-old Carlino, a restless and rebellious boy, lives with his parents Cesare and Bian...

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The Night Wears Suspenders
The Night Wears Suspenders

Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads hi...

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The Smell of Success
The Smell of Success

When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livel...

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Visioni private
Visioni private

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Cross
Cross

Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law ...

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Museum of Regret
Museum of Regret

A television repairman makes a repair....

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From Time to Time
From Time to Time

In the Visionarium, the Timekeeper is a robot testing a new time machine. Because of the potential d...

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Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show

A look behind the story and production of the HBO dramatic series Carnivàle....

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Crystal Gazing
Crystal Gazing

Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil,...

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Films to Die For
Films to Die For

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Holy Man
Holy Man

In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever chang...

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