JohnBach
- Actor
John Bach’s screen career spans more than 90 roles. His CV includes a memorably loopy cameo in Goodbye Pork Pie, and starring roles in movie The Lost Tribe (playing twin brothers), and TV shows Roche (as truck driver Mick Roche) and Duggan (as detective John Duggan). En route, Bach has worked extensively in Australia, and played everyone from bus drivers to media barons — and from robbers to Roman senators.
Screenography
Biography
Actor John Bach still remembers the shock of arriving in sunny Blenheim in 1956, at age 12. "I’d never seen anything like it. So green! And hot. We had fruit trees in our garden."
Bach's family had emigrated to New Zealand, from a dying mining town in Wales. John and his sisters soon moved to Christchurch, and John attended Linwood High School. A bookish teenager, he got involved in the school’s active drama department. More theatre roles were to follow: mostly serious, occasionally comical. Bach credits teacher John Kim as a strong influence. "He ran weekend drama classes — he was great".
Awards
2015 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA)
Best Guest or Supporting Role in a Television Drama: for Gallipoli, Gallipoli: If Only episode
2012 Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: for Rest for the Wicked
“It's a danger to be well-known.”