BIOGRAPHY OF PATRICK BAUCHAU

Patrick Bauchau born December 6, 1938 is a Belgian actor best known for his role as Scarpine in the 1985 James Bond film, A View to a Kill, Sydney (Jarod’s mentor) in the television series The Pretender and Doctor Rowan Chase, of Doctor Robert Chase’s alien father in the television series, House.

He attended Oxford University on a scholarship and speaks German, French, English, Spanish, Italian and some Russian and Dutch. He is married to Brigitte Bardot’s sister, Mijanou Bardot, and lives in Los Angeles.

PATRICK BAUCHAUCAMILLE BAUCHAU

Camille Bauchau is the daughter of actor Patrick Bauchau.

MIJANOU BARDOT PATRICK BAUCHAU

Mijanou Bardot is the wife of Patrick Bauchau and she was a French actress born on May 5, 1938 in Paris. She has acted in various films ie;

• 1956 – Women’s Club
• 1957 – Until the Last One
• 1958 – It’s All Adam’s Fault
• 1958 – The Pirate of the ‘Black Hawk’
• 1958 – Sins Paid With Blood (Sins Paid With Blood)
• 1958 – A bullet in the barrel
• 1959 – Ramuntcho
• 1960 – Sex kittens go to college
• 1967 – The Collector
• 1968 – After the Flood (After the Flood)

FILMS BY PATRICK BAUCHAU

PATRICK BAUCHAU CAREER

Bauchau began his career in French new wave cinema, notably by appearing in two films by Éric Rohmer, La Carrière de Suzanne (1963) and La Collectionneuse (1967). He also participated in New German Cinema in films such as Der Stand der Dinge by Wim Wenders (1982).

Bauchau is best known for his roles on American television. Bauchau has acted in numerous TV shows and films including A View to a Kill as Scarpine, The Pretender, Kindred: The Embraced, The Rapture, Panic Room, Boy Culture, Carnivàle and 2012. In 1987 he was considered for the role. of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In 1989 he starred as the murderer in Columbo: Murder: A Self Portrait. In this episode, he consistently addressed Columbo as “Leff-tenant Columbo”, using a British pronunciation, rather than the usual American “Loo-tenant”. It was an example of Bauchau’s unique, semi-nasal voice through an often menacing smile.

In 1992 he starred in Murder She Wrote: The Monte Carlo Murders. In 2004, he appeared in Ray Charles’ biopic Ray as Dr. Hacker. In 2005, he appeared as a guest star on the ABC show, Alias, as well as Fox shows House and 24.

In 2007, Bauchau played the lead role in the biopic The Gray Man – a thriller that dramatized the shocking crimes of American sado-masochistic serial killer, rapist and cannibal Albert Fish. In 2009, he appeared as a guest star on ABC’s Castle.

For the films, he often does the French dubbing of his characters himself, because he is a French mother tongue. In 2011, Bauchau guest starred in the Burn Notice episode “Eye for an Eye” in the United States.