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My Take
Patrick Bauchau has had one of those gloriously cosmopolitan careers that feels like a secret handshake among film buffs. A Belgian who studied at Oxford and started out in Eric Rohmer's French New Wave, he became the kind of distinguished European face Hollywood loves to import, a Bond villain's man in A View to a Kill, the unsettling father in Panic Room. To a different audience he is simply Sydney from The Pretender or the mysterious Lodz in Carnivale. That elegant, slightly sinister voice could anchor anything. I love performers like this: never the lead, always the texture that makes a scene memorable.
Overview
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. On television, he was a main cast member in the NBC series The Pretender and the HBO drama Carnivàle, as well as making notable guest appearances in series such as Columbo and House, M.D..
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Patrick Bauchau
- Name (Japanese)
- パトリック・ボーショー
- Reading
- ぱとりっく・ぼーしょー
- Born
- December 6, 1938 (age 87)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Tiger
- Origin
- Etterbeek, Belgium
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / screenwriter / film actor / singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Oxford
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | La Collectionneuse | — | |
| Notable work | Phenomena | — | |
| Notable work | A View to a Kill | — | |
| Notable work | Panic Room | — | |
| Notable work | 2012 | — | |
| Notable work | The Pretender | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.