Francis Patrick Roach was an English professional wrestler, martial artist and actor.
19 Facts About Pat Roach
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Pat Roach appeared in the Indiana Jones film series, as the West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the 1980s British television series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and in the role of Petty Officer Edgar Evans in the television production The Last Place on Earth.
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Pat Roach was National Judo Champion in 1960, and Midland Area Black Belt Champion in 1962.
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Pat Roach boxed as an amateur before becoming professional as a protege of Jack Solomons.
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Pat Roach began his professional wrestling career under the name of "Judo" Pat Roach.
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Pat Roach was trained by Alf Kent and his first official wrestling match was against George Selko in 1960.
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Pat Roach held both the British and European heavyweight championships at one time.
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Pat Roach made his acting debut as the red-bearded bouncer in the Korova Milkbar in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
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Pat Roach worked on another Kubrick film, Barry Lyndon, where he played a hand-to-hand brawler named Toole who engages Ryan O'Neal in a fistfight.
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Pat Roach went on to play a number of strong-man supporting character roles in films in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, including the nonspeaking role of Hephaestus in Clash of the Titans.
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Pat Roach cameoed as a SPECTRE assassin in the 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and as bandit-warlord Lord Brytag in the sword-and-sorcery film Red Sonja.
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Pat Roach appeared as the skull-helmeted General Kael in the film Willow; the evil wizard Thoth-Amon in Conan the Destroyer and as the Celtic chieftain in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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Pat Roach was turned down as Darth Vader in Star Wars; however, its director, George Lucas, subsequently cast him as several burly villains in the Indiana Jones film series in the 1980s.
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On television Pat Roach played the down-to-earth and easy going Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in the long running comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
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Pat Roach appeared in all four series, but was absent from the final two-part Christmas special.
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Pat Roach was a guest on Central TV's Bullseye game show in 1984.
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Pat Roach appeared in season 11 episode 39 of The Bill, playing the character Reg Warren.
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Pat Roach ran a gym on Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, in North-East Birmingham.
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Pat Roach's body was buried in extension section B at Bromsgrove Cemetery, Worcestershire.