John Bach

Born: 1946-06-05

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.


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as Madril
Released: 2003-12-17

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

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

as Madril
Released: 2002-12-18

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

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as British Homeguard 1
Released: 2008-05-15

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

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The Light Between Oceans

as Mayor Jock Johnson
Released: 2016-09-02

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

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My Name Is Bruce

as Shot in the Leg Guy
Released: 2007-10-01

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

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Ike: Countdown to D-Day

as Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory
Released: 2004-05-31

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

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Warlords of the 21st Century

as Bone
Released: 1982-01-01

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

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The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder

as Travis
Released: 1989-08-11

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

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Reunion

as Jack
Released: 2020-11-05

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

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The Cure

as Lionel
Released: 2014-02-06

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

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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

as Alexander Graham Bell
Released: 1993-07-18

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

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Blood Oath

as Major Roberts
Released: 1990-07-26

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

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The Last Tattoo

as Austen Leech
Released: 1994-07-01

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

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Utu

as Belcher
Released: 1984-06-27

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the...

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Mistress, Mercy

as Judge Anderson
Released: 2018-07-15

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

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Rest for the Wicked

as Frank
Released: 2011-11-24

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

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Other Halves

as Jim
Released: 1984-10-01

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

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

as Detective Murray Jeffries
Released: 1980-01-31

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

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Typhon's People

as Daniel Harrington
Released: 1993-01-01

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

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Bad Blood

as Bert Cropp
Released: 1982-11-12

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

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The Hollow Men

as Michael Bassett (voice)
Released: 2008-07-07

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

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CrimeBroker

as Frank MacPhee
Released: 1993-07-01

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

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Heart of the Stag

as Shearer
Released: 1984-07-28

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

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Goodbye Pork Pie

as Snout
Released: 1981-02-05

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

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Georgia

as William Karlin
Released: 1989-10-12

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

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Piece of My Heart

as Mike
Released: 2009-11-26

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

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Kidnapped

as Cluny
Released: 2005-02-27

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

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Old Scores

as Ewan Murray
Released: 1991-01-01

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

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The Lost Tribe

as Edward / Max Scarry
Released: 1983-10-01

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

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The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

as Grandpa quinn
Released: 2022-12-31

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

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Carry Me Back

as uncredited
Released: 1982-06-01

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

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The Heroes

as Donald Davidson
Released: 1988-01-01

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

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Pallet on the Floor

as Jack Voot
Released: 1986-01-01

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

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Wild Man

as Barman
Released: 1977-01-01

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

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Judgement Tavern

as The Judge
Released: 2016-06-09

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

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Spartacus

as Magistrate Calavius
First aired: 2010-01-22

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the...

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Farscape

as Einstein
First aired: 1999-03-19

A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a...

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Wentworth

as Vinnie Holt
First aired: 2013-05-01

Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must...

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Legend of the Seeker

as Herald
First aired: 2008-11-01

The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy...

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The Lost World

as Balar
First aired: 1999-04-03

Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon...

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The Man from Snowy River

as Dandy Jim O'Rourke
First aired: 1994-09-23

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The...

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Roman Empire

as Marcus Aurelius
First aired: 2016-11-11

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the...

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Jack Irish

as Senator Michael Longmore
First aired: 2016-02-11

Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world...

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Gallipoli

as Sir Ian Hamilton
First aired: 2015-02-09

As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli...

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Thierry Arronax
First aired: 1997-05-11

New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of...

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Under the Vines

as Don Silverton
First aired: 2021-12-06

Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in...

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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

as Einstein
First aired: 2004-10-17

When a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but...

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Hercules

as Creon
First aired: 2005-05-16

A chronicle of the life of the Greek hero who after killing his three sons must perform five...

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The Day of the Roses

as Tom Weir
First aired: 1998-10-18

On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and...

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Mysterious Island

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-06-15

Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île...

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Kidnapped

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-02-27

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

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This Is Not My Life

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-07-29

This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on...

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The Great Bookie Robbery

as Mike Power
First aired: 1986-11-15

On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club,...

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Heroes II: The Return

as Lt. Cmdr Donald 'Davo" Davidson
First aired: 1991-12-15

Heroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War...

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The Paper Man

as Philip Cromwell
First aired: 1990-09-05

The Paper Man is a 1990 mini series about a fictitious media mogul.

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Golden Fiddles

as Walter Balfour
First aired: 1991-08-18

Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was...

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