
Pat Roach
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 fal…
Acting
- 2018Starhunter ReduXGoran1 ep.
- 2000JackassSelf1 ep.
- 1997The New Adventures of Robin Hood1 ep.
- 1996EllingtonMickey Gilmour1 ep.
- 1994Space PrecinctOgree1 ep.
- 1993The DetectivesP.C. Drake1 ep.
- 1991The Storyteller: Greek MythsAtlas1 ep.
- 1990Sea DragonAslak4 ep.
- 1986Sunday PremiereJoe Robinson1 ep.
- 1985The Last Place on EarthPO Evans7 ep.
- 1983Auf Wiedersehen, PetBrian 'Bomber' Busbridge38 ep.
- 1981BullseyeSelf - Special Guest1 ep.
- 1980Juliet BravoDoulton1 ep.
- 1978HazellBig Arti1 ep.
- 1977PremierePat Chain1 ep.
- 1976GangstersIRA Muscle4 ep.
Behind the camera
- 1976GangstersStunts4 ep.
Guest appearances
- 2018Starhunter ReduXGoran1 ep.
- 2000JackassSelf1 ep.
- 1998The New Adventures of Robin Hood1 ep.
- 1996HeartbeatThe Masked Marvel1 ep.
- 1996EllingtonMickey Gilmour1 ep.
- 1995The DetectivesP.C. Drake1 ep.
- 1995Space PrecinctOgree1 ep.
- 1991The Storyteller: Greek MythsAtlas1 ep.
- 1989CasualtyLen1 ep.
- 1987Sunday PremiereJoe Robinson1 ep.
- 1985MinderPainter1 ep.
- 1984BullseyeSelf - Special Guest1 ep.
- 1983Film '721 ep.
- 1980Juliet BravoDoulton1 ep.
- 1980Play for TodayMan in Street1 ep.
- 1978HazellBig Arti1 ep.
- 1977PremierePat Chain1 ep.
- 1976GangstersIRA Muscle2 ep.
Also known as: 'Bomber' Pat Roach · Francis Patrick Roach · 'Big' Pat Roach