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Patrick Bauchau

Belgian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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. 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..

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The public source identifies “Patrick Bauchau” as belgian actor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Patrick, Bauchau and Belgian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Patrick, Bauchau and Belgian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Patrick Bauchau”, the useful work is to connect “belgian actor” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patrick Bauchau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.