
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
May 19, 1937
Died
July 17, 2004 (67 years old)
Birmingham, England, UK
Also Known As
- 'Bomber' Pat Roach
- Francis Patrick Roach
- 'Big' Pat Roach
Pat Roach
Biography
Proud and passionate Angle, Pat Roach, was born and raised in Birmingham, England and grew to be a mountain of a man standing at six feet, five inches tall, with doorway-wide shoulders and a barrel chest.
Pat wrestled competitively under the name of "Bomber" Roach, and at one time held both the British and European Heavyweight Wrestling Championships. While still in the wrestling game, Roach broke into acting with a bit part in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon (1975). He quickly became popular as an enforcer or warrior figure and appeared on-screen with some of Hollywood's biggest names. Many people would remember him as the muscle-bound, bald German guard who hands out a beating toHarrison Ford in Les aventuriers de l'arche perdue (1981), before being cut down by a spinning plane propeller.
In other film roles, Roach nearly eliminates 007 Sean Connery in the Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), in dual roles as a resurrected demon and as a fierce warrior, he fought Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Conan sequel Conan the Destroyer (1984), and was back as a ferocious Indian guard pummeling poor Harrison Ford once again in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), before falling into a rock crusher.
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He also appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Red Sonja (1985) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). Apart from his film activity, Pat ran a gymnasium in Birmingham, operated a used appliance business in the local markets and was known as a warm-hearted and genial man who was happy to chat with admiring fanatics, sign autographs and pose for photographs.
Roach was also very popular with English television audiences for his portrayal of gentle giant "Brian 'Bomber' Busbridge" in the series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) and was scheduled to appear in the fifth series of the show, when he died of cancer on July 17, 2004. He was 67 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography
Known For
Acting

Willow: Behind the Magic
2023

Jackass
2000

Kull the Conqueror
1997

The New Adventures of Robin Hood
1997

The Portrait of a Lady
1996

Space Precinct
1994

The Detectives
1993

Heartbeat
1992

The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991

The Big Man
1990

Wings of Fame
1990

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989

The Return of the Musketeers
1989

Willow
1988

Casualty
1986

Red Sonja
1985

Conan the Destroyer
1984

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983

Never Say Never Again
1983

Clash of the Titans
1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981

The Monster Club
1981







