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 Unde...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

The Translators
2019
as Georges Fontaine
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.

Against the Clock
2019
as Goldstucker
After a CIA Agent is seriously injured during a mission, his wife, a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened - a truth the ...

The Girl King
2015
as René Descartes
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to mode...

Me and Kaminski
2015
as Professor Megelbach
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on h...

Amnesiac
2015
as Doctor
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his re...

Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
2015
as Dr. Sergie Abramov
In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War. At the same time, a ne...

Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
as Dad
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Wi...

Big Ass Spider!
2013
as Lucas
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his securit...

Satellite of Love
2013
as Alex
Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake a...

The Boarder
2012
as Jarren Williams
Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from React...

Get the Gringo
2012
as Surgeon
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

The Smell of Success
2011
as Mr. Rose
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to ...

Glenn, the Flying Robot
2011
as Richard Leblanc
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly comp...

Dharma Guns
2011
as Professor Starkov
The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man (Stan). They are both challenging their own limits...

Lafayette: The Lost Hero
2010
as Lafayette's narration
No one in recorded history has suffered a fate quite like Lafayette. Once, he was the most famous man in the world; today, few people know who he was ...

Extraordinary Measures
2010
as CEO Erich Loring
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a con...

2012
2009
as Roland Picard
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

The Perfect Sleep
2009
as Nikolai
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad...

Possibility of an Island
2008
as Le prophéte
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.

La velocità della luce
2008
as Rinaldo

The Gray Man
2007
as Albert Fish
In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family by himself after his wife deserted them, turns out...

Thieves
2007
as Anticuario
The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessl...

Chrysalis
2007
as Charles Becker
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipul...

El amor y la ciudad
2007
It tells the story of three people who live in the same building. On the one hand a pair something uneven, she, a refined decorator more than forty-fi...

Suzanne
2007
as Frank
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successivel...

9 Lives of Mara
2007
as acting
When his widower father starts dating a darkly mesmerizing woman, 12-year-old Robin believes she's witch filled with nefarious intent for his family. ...

Boy Culture
2006
as Gregory Talbot
A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic ma...

Karla
2006
as Dr. Arnold
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girl...

Vampires: The Turning
2005
as Raines
An American kickboxer in Thailand joins a gang of vampire slayers to rescue his lover from a bloodsucking warlord.

Ray
2004
as Dr. Hacker
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h...
Promised Land
2004
as Jim Williamson
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car ...

The Five Obstructions
2003
as The Perfect Man / Voice-over (Brussels) / Speaker (Cartoon)
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set ...

Shade
2003
as Malini
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean ...

C.E.O.
2002
Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.

Secretary
2002
as Dr. Twardon
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship t...

Panic Room
2002
as Stephen Altman
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her ...

The Beatnicks
2002
as Hank
The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd better find a gig or they'll be out on the street....

The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
2001
as Sydney
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make d...

Jackpot
2001
as Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon
Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child and hits the road with his manager in a desperate ...

The Pretender 2001
2001
as Sydney
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing...

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
2001
as Himself
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.

The Demon Within
2000
as Professor Giraud
A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco.

The Cell
2000
as Lucien Baines
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

Twin Falls Idaho
1999
as Miles, a Doctor
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Franci...

We Free Kings
1996
as Baldassarre
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are...

Enfants de salaud
1996
as Pierre-Yves
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have muc...

Serpent's Lair
1995
as Sam
Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.

The Interview
1995
as Padre Stephen Louis
Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Fathe...

Lisbon Story
1994
as Friedrich Monroe
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a f...

The New Age
1994
as Jean Levy
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begi...

Dark Side of Genius
1994
as Sherman McPhee
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder ...

Clear and Present Danger
1994
as Enrique Rojas
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Every Breath
1994
as Richard
An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her rich arms dealer husband.

Day of Reckoning
1994
as Andre Rouselle
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two resear...

And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Luc Montagnier
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Acting on Impulse
1993
as Yoram Sussman
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a ...

Havanera 1820
1993
as Mister Johnson
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that ...

Chain of Desire
1992
as Jerald Buckley
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.

Robert's Movie
1992
as Robert
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publica...

The Rapture
1991
as Vic
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have ima...
The Knot in the Necktie
1991
as Cesare
The fourteen-year-old Carlino, a restless and rebellious boy, lives with his parents Cesare and Bianca and with his older sister Carolina, who is abou...

Terra Nova
1991
Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a...

Blood Ties
1991
as Eli Chelarin
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just ...

The Most Natural Thing
1991
as Pablo
Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns to her law practice and, plotting revenge, accepts ...

The Madonna and the Dragon
1990
as Pavel
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.

Visioni private
1990
as Boris

Love Comedy
1989
as Vollard
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de Franc...

Australia
1989
as André Gauthier
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Aust...

Errors of Youth
1989
as Paul
The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscreti...

The Music Teacher
1988
as Prince Scotti
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous trainin...

Accroche-cœur
1987
as Léo
Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young gir...

Potlatch
1987
as Gregoire
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-destructive symphonic composer makes an o...

Friendship's Death
1987
as Kubler
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan dur...

Ballad of Dog Beach
1987
as Capt. Dantas
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after h...

Love Among Thieves
1987
as Alan Channing
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ranso...

Cross
1987
as Simon Leenhardt
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped ...
Riviera
1987
as Riker
TV-movie directed by Alan Smithee (John Frankenheimer).

Family Business
1986
as Octave, the Brother (uncredited)
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several succe...

Lola
1986
as Robert
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There ...

La moitié de l'amour
1985
Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to possess her story. Like the viewer, Adrian will be a...
Folie suisse
1985
as Federico

A View to a Kill
1985
as Scarpine
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear...

The Night Wears Suspenders
1985
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Par...

Phenomena
1985
as Inspector Rudolf Geiger
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability ...
Report from Hollywood
1985
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Thin...
Nucleo Zero
1984
as Giovanni Dettore

Choose Me
1984
as Zack Antoine
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose ...

The Public Woman
1984
as Ethel's Father
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Par...

Emmanuelle 4
1984
as Marc
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle...

First Desires
1983
as Jordan
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begin...

Entre Nous
1983
as Carlier
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husba...

Les Îles
1983
as Edouard

Enigma
1982
as Russian Soldier (voice)
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent ...

The State of Things
1982
as Friedrich Munro
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is...

Le petit Pommier
1981
as Pierre, l'ami de la mère
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.

Guns
1980
as Tony
The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters ...

Fun and Games for Everyone
1969
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of impro...

Tuset Street
1968
as Jorge Artigas
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drink...

La Collectionneuse
1967
as Adrien
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their id...

La Collectionneuse
1967
Dialogue
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their id...

Six in Paris
1965
Associate Producer
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and ...

Suzanne’s Career
1963
as Frank (uncredited)
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a comp...

The Knife Thrower
N/A
as Cerle de Smet
A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crime in a foreign land and sentenced to death.