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 doorwaywide 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 onscreen with some of Hollywoods biggest names Many people would remember him as the musclebound bald German guard who hands out a beating toHarrison Ford in Les aventuriers de larche 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 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 warmhearted 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