John Bach
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0282 |
| Birthday | 1946-06-05 |
| Place of Birth | Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Also Known As |
2004
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
6.627/51
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme A...
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day
1982
Battletruck
4.611/36
It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corl...
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Battletruck
1982
Bad Blood
7/10
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
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Bad Blood
1990
Blood Oath
5.6/10
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of...
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Blood Oath
1988
The Heroes
5.071/7
Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the...
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The Heroes
2008
The Hollow Men
10/1
The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone E...
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The Hollow Men
2014
The Cure
4.3/28
When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to r...
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The Cure
1989
Georgia
3.333/3
A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely...
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Georgia
1986
Pallet on the Floor
6.5/2
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a dr...
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Pallet on the Floor
1994
The Last Tattoo
5.611/9
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt f...
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The Last Tattoo
1984
Wild Horses
6/2
Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to th...
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Wild Horses
1984
Other Halves
7.667/3
A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he...
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Other Halves
1993
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
6/2
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
1989
The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
0/0
S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule that...
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The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
1983
The Lost Tribe
4/7
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his tw...
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The Lost Tribe
1977
Wild Man
10/1
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island duri...
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Wild Man
1981
Goodbye Pork Pie
6.714/28
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...
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Goodbye Pork Pie
1980
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
6.667/3
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1993
CrimeBroker
5.667/3
High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls a...
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CrimeBroker
2011
Rest for the Wicked
6.5/1
Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the...
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Rest for the Wicked
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8.416/23763
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies l...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2016
Judgement Tavern
0/0
Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night, th...
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Judgement Tavern
2022
The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
6.4/5
An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear, but things aren’t always what th...
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The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
1991
Old Scores
8/2
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966...
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Old Scores
2016
The Light Between Oceans
7.064/1418
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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The Light Between Oceans
2018
Mistress, Mercy
0/0
This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case that rocked New Zealand and catapulted teenage domina...
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Mistress, Mercy
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8.497/26403
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outc...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1984
Utu
7/32
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke f...
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Utu
1984
Heart of the Stag
4.167/6
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
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Heart of the Stag
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
6.629/6735
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a y...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
1993
Typhon's People
7/1
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway t...
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Typhon's People
2007
My Name Is Bruce
5.803/361
B-movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Orego...
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My Name Is Bruce
2020
Reunion
6.204/27
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reun...
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Reunion
2009
Piece of My Heart
6/1
Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenag...
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Piece of My Heart
1982
Carry Me Back
6.75/2
Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and th...
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Carry Me Back
2005
Kidnapped
0/0
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevol...
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Kidnapped
1983
Nearly No Christmas
5/2
Before Christmas, the North Pole is a very busy place. When Rumbletum, the cantankerous boiler which drives the toy machines breaks down, Santa has to...
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Nearly No Christmas
2026
Sgt. Haane
0/0
This documentary-drama film follows Lance Sgt. Haane Manahi DCM of B Company, 28th Māori Battalion, a soldier of extraordinary courage, whose actions...
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Sgt. Haane
2026
Holy Days
6/1
When young Brian discovers plans to close a convent of delightfully eccentric nuns, he sets off with them on a wild road trip across New Zealand to sa...
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Holy Days
1978
The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts
0/0
In this award-winning children's adventure created by Ian Mune, Tony (Ian Templeton) and Suey (Julie Wilson) spend time on their uncle's farm and beco...
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