John Bach

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John Bach
Born	(1946-06-05) 5 June 1946 Cardiff, Wales, UK

John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than three decades. Though born in Wales, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand.

International audiences are most likely to have seen Bach as the Gondorian Ranger Madril in the second and third movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). His leading roles in New Zealand television include playing Detective Inspector John Duggan in the Duggan telemovies and television series, one of the truckdriving brothers in series Roche, and time on long-running soap opera Close to Home. In 1992 he starred as Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell in awardwinning telemovie The Sound and the Silence.

Bach's Australian work includes sci fi series Farscape, and playing Mike Power in based on a true story mini-series The Great Bookie Robbery (1986).

In 2010 Bach appeared in NZ science fiction series This Is Not My Life as the sinister Harry Sheridan, as magistrate Titus Calavius in Spartacus: Blood and Sand and in an episode of Legend of the Seeker.

He has also appeared in several New Zealand films, including Utu, Carry Me Back, Goodbye Pork Pie, Pallet on the Floor, telemovie Old Scores and Beyond Reasonable Doubt.

Note

Despite being Welsh, Bach's surname is pronounced "Baitch", and not as in the Welsh word for small.

External links

John Bach at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 63760268 LCCN: no2006038481 BNF: cb14151906q

Persondata
Name	Bach, John
Alternative names
Short description	British and New Zealand actor
Date of birth	5 June 1946
Place of birth	Cardiff, Wales, UK
Date of death
Place of death

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