FrameThrower · Actors · Patrick Bauchau
Patrick Bauchau
7 films · 441 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1967–2002
Born 6 December 1938 · Brussels, Belgium
Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau 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.
How their films are shot
Measured across 441 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Patrick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Patrick takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 441 frames from Patrick Bauchau's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.