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.

Filmography

• 2025Films to Die For — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2025Museum of Regret — Don Patricio
• 2019Against the Clock — Goldstucker
• 2019The Translators — Georges Fontaine
• 2015Amnesiac — Doctor
• 2015Every Thing Will Be Fine — Dad
• 2015Me and Kaminski — Professor Megelbach
• 2015Mega Shark vs. Kolossus — Dr. Sergie Abramov
• 2015The Girl King — René Descartes
• The Affair — Guillaume, Etienne
• 2013Big Ass Spider! — Lucas
• Crossing Lines — Christophe Bernard
• 2013Satellite of Love — Alex
• 2012Get the Gringo — Surgeon
• 2012The Boarder — Jarren Williams
• 2011Dharma Guns — Professor Starkov
• 2011Glenn, the Flying Robot — Richard Leblanc
• 2011The Smell of Success — Mr. Rose
• 2010Extraordinary Measures — CEO Erich Loring
• 20092012 — Roland Picard
• Castle — Caine Powell
• 2009The Perfect Sleep — Nikolai
• 2008La velocità della luce — Rinaldo
• 2008Possibility of an Island — Le prophéte
• 20079 Lives of Mara — Documentarian
• Burn Notice — Lucien Balan
• 2007Chrysalis — Charles Becker
• 2007El amor y la ciudad
• Lost Signs — Général de Lestrade
• 2007Suzanne — Frank
• 2007The Gray Man — Albert Fish
• 2007Thieves — Anticuario
• Women's Murder Club
• 2006Boy Culture — Gregory Talbot
• 2006Karla — Dr. Arnold
• Numb3rs — Jean Stephanois
• 2005Vampires: The Turning — Raines
• CSI: NY — Dr. Willems
• House — Dr. Rowan Case
• Justice League Unlimited — Kasnian Monk (voice)
• 2004Promised Land — Jim Williamson
• 2004Ray — Dr. Hacker
• Carnivàle — Professor Ernst Lodz
• 2003Shade — Malini
• 2003The Five Obstructions — The Perfect Man / Voice-over (Brussels) / Speaker (Cartoon)
• Threat Matrix — Frederick Vorn
• 2002C.E.O.
• 2002Panic Room — Stephen Altman
• 2002Secretary — Dr. Twardon
• 2002The Beatnicks — Hank
• The Dead Zone — Andrew Lyne
• 24 — Jacob Rossler
• Alias — Aldo Desantis
• 2001Jackpot — Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon
• 2001The Pretender 2001 — Sydney
• 2001The Pretender: Island of the Haunted — Sydney
• 2000The Cell — Lucien Baines
• 2000The Demon Within — Professor Giraud
• 1999Twin Falls Idaho — Miles, a Doctor
• 1998Holy Man — Hypnotized Guy at Party (uncredited)
• 1996Enfants de salaud — Pierre-Yves
• Kindred: The Embraced — Archon Raine
• The Pretender — Sydney/Jacob
• 1996We Free Kings — Baldassarre
• 1995Serpent's Lair — Sam
• 1995The Interview — Padre Stephen Louis
• 1994Clear and Present Danger — Enrique Rojas
• 1994Dark Side of Genius — Sherman McPhee
• 1994Day of Reckoning — Andre Rouselle
• Earth 2 — 'Govenor' Sheppard
• 1994Every Breath — Richard
• 1994Lisbon Story — Friedrich Monroe
• 1994The New Age — Jean Levy
• 1993Acting on Impulse — Yoram Sussman
• 1993And the Band Played On — Dr. Luc Montagnier
• 1993Havanera 1820 — Mister Johnson
• 1992Chain of Desire — Jerald Buckley
• 1992From Time to Time — L'interprète de H.G Wells
• 1992Robert's Movie — Robert
• 1991Blood Ties — Eli Chelarin
• 1991Terra Nova — Mr. Stal
• 1991The Knot in the Necktie — Cesare
• 1991The Most Natural Thing — Pablo
• 1991The Rapture — Vic
• Max Monroe: Loose Cannon — Kyle Lorden
• 1990The Madonna and the Dragon — Pavel
• 1990Visioni private — Boris
• 1989Australia — André Gauthier
• 1989Errors of Youth — Paul
• 1989Love Comedy — Vollard
• Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza) — Champier
• Mount Royal — André Valeur
• 1988The Music Teacher — Prince Scotti
• 1987Accroche-cœur — Léo
• 1987Ballad of Dog Beach — Capt. Dantas
• 1987Cross — Simon Leenhardt
• 1987Friendship's Death — Kubler
• 1987Love Among Thieves — Alan Channing
• 1987Potlatch — Gregoire
• 1987Riviera — Riker
• 1986Family Business — Octave, the Brother (uncredited)
• 1986Lola — Robert
• 1985A View to a Kill — Scarpine
• Christopher Columbus — Don Rodrigo
• 1985Folie suisse — Federico
• Kane & Abel — Ludwik
• 1985La moitié de l'amour
• 1985Phenomena — Inspector Rudolf Geiger
• 1985Report from Hollywood
• 1985The Night Wears Suspenders
• 1984Choose Me — Zack Antoine
• 1984Emmanuelle 4 — Marc
• Murder, She Wrote — Inspector Morel
• 1984Nucleo Zero — Giovanni Dettore
• 1984The Public Woman — Ethel's Father
• 1983Entre Nous — Carlier
• 1983First Desires — Jordan
• 1983Les Îles — Edouard
• 1982Crystal Gazing — Husband
• 1982Enigma — Russian Soldier (voice)
• 1982The State of Things — Friedrich Munro
• 1981Le petit Pommier — Pierre, l'ami de la mère
• 1980Guns — Tony
• Columbo — Max Barsini
• 1969Fun and Games for Everyone
• 1968Tuset Street — Jorge Artigas
• 1967La Collectionneuse — Adrien, Dialogue
• 1965Six in Paris — Associate Producer
• 1963Suzanne's Career — Frank (uncredited)
• The Knife Thrower — Cerle de Smet

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado — Self
• 2010Lafayette: The Lost Hero — Self - Lafayette's narration
• 2003Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show — Self
• 2001Emmanuelle: A Hard Look — Himself