John Bach

John Bach

Birthday: 1946-06-05

Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, UK

Biography: John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. In 1997, his leading role as the titular detective character of Duggan was created for him, firstly in a couple of telemovies, then in a successful New Zealand series.

Movies

Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Ike: Countdown to D-Day

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of D...

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Battletruck
Battletruck

It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities...

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Bad Blood
Bad Blood

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori...

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Blood Oath
Blood Oath

On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of...

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The Heroes
The Heroes

Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World...

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The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men

The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 elec...

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The Cure
The Cure

When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed ...

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Georgia
Georgia

A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. ...

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Pallet on the Floor
Pallet on the Floor

A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and ec...

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The Last Tattoo
The Last Tattoo

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot...

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Wild Horses
Wild Horses

Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, ...

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Other Halves
Other Halves

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same m...

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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother....

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The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder

S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the pa...

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The Lost Tribe
The Lost Tribe

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zeal...

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Wild Man
Wild Man

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold...

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Goodbye Pork Pie
Goodbye Pork Pie

Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife...

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Beyond Reasonable Doubt

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and ...

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CrimeBroker
CrimeBroker

High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to...

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Rest for the Wicked
Rest for the Wicked

Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds o...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the ...

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Judgement Tavern
Judgement Tavern

Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they sea...

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The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what i...

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Old Scores
Old Scores

Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confess...

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The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue ...

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Mistress, Mercy
Mistress, Mercy

This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case tha...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc...

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Utu
Utu

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land gu...

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Heart of the Stag
Heart of the Stag

Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daugh...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, L...

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Typhon's People
Typhon's People

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is as...

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My Name Is Bruce
My Name Is Bruce

B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and force...

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Reunion
Reunion

A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with h...

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Piece of My Heart
Piece of My Heart

Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused...

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Carry Me Back
Carry Me Back

Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the tow...

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Kidnapped
Kidnapped

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship,...

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Nearly No Christmas
Nearly No Christmas

Before Christmas, the North Pole is a very busy place. When Rumbletum, the cantankerous boiler which...

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