John Bach

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 the titular 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. In 1999 he played the Earl of Sackville in an episode of the TV miniseries A Twist in the Tale.

Bach's Australian work includes science fiction series Farscape, playing Mike Power in based on a true story mini-series The Great Bookie Robbery (1986), and as Sir Ian Hamilton in the 2015 TV miniseries Gallipoli.

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"If you go back to the Boston Celtics teams that won all those championships [in the 1960s], you'll see that they won because of the way they played together and fed off each other. They didn't have that one guy who really dominated. [Bill] Russell dominated defensively, but that's all."
"Kids love rabbits, ... They just like them."
"[Of course, sometimes when you go behind the scenes like this all you get is another scene: a carefully composed snapshot, not of what an athlete is like off the field, but of what he wants you to think he's like off the field. I'm sure, by now, most fans realize this and recognize the dangers of hero worship.] Idolatry is really not good for anyone, ... Not even the idols."
"I got the first call about a week ago, right after contractors finished doing some sewer work. I did contact the Army Corps and asked them to take care of that."
"To the timid soul, nothing is possible."
"Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols."
"Kids love rabbits... they just like them."
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The Dukes of Hazzard cast blast woke critics for trying to cancel the show - ...

The Daily Mail 01 Apr 2025
Eighties heartthrobs John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Catherine Bach have refused to be silenced by claims of the show's links to confederate America ... John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Tom Wopat) ... Bach said ... John SchneiderLos AngelesGeorgiaBob Lee.

The week in classical: Arias Reimagined; Rhythm of the Seasons; Out of the Deep; Turandot – review

The Observer 30 Mar 2025
The radical singer-composer Loré Lixenberg and accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga, who brings dignity and melancholy to every phrase she plays, worked aural spells with Handel, JS Bach and John Cage (sound by Isa Ferri).

Dukes Of Hazzard star, 71, reveals secrets for looking young almost 50 years after her ...

The Daily Mail 28 Mar 2025
Catherine Bach played Daisy Duke on the series Dukes of Hazzard which aired from 1979 until 1985 ... In the past Bach has said exercising regularly and eating healthy is the key to maintaining her good looks.

Original Dukes of Hazzard cast reunite for special LA event 40 years after comedy's last ...

The Daily Mail 28 Mar 2025
Tom Wopat, Catherine Bach and John Schneider posed arm in arm at the Hollywood Museum 40 years after the last episode aired, as they attended the A Drive Through Time exhibition ... John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Tom Wopat).

Letters: The assisted dying Bill serves as a textbook example of bad law-making

The Daily Telegraph 27 Mar 2025
John Israel ... John Bergin ... British cellist Steven Isserlis performs Bach’s Cello Suites at Wigmore Hall Credit ... SIR – John Gilhooly, director of Wigmore Hall, is to be congratulated for ... John Newbury.

Dakota Pro Musica Dazzles with the St. John Passion

The Dickinson Press 26 Mar 2025
— In the solemn quiet of Assumption Abbey, the sweeping strains of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion rose into the rafters Friday night, as Dakota Pro Musica ...

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review – a Beatles bromance

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
It’s a drag, isn’t it,” Paul McCartney told reporters quizzing him the day after John Lennon’s murder, a soundbite as dispiritingly muted, even callous, as his reaction to his mother’s death when he was 14 ... John & Paul.

Dakota Pro Musica presents Bach concerts in Bismarck

The Bismarck Tribune 21 Mar 2025
Dakota Pro Musica, the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra and the Bismarck-Mandan Civic Chorus will present J.S. Bach's St. John Passion this weekend in the Bismarck-Mandan area ... .

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Houston Press 20 Mar 2025
Mercury Chamber Orchestra will present Bach's St. John Passion at the Wortham Theater Center ... On Saturday, March 22, at 8 p.m., Mercury Chamber Orchestra will perform a classic example of Passion music during Bach’s St.

Awaiting the white smoke for the new pope of sport

Inside The Games 19 Mar 2025
If no consensus is reached in a round, the candidate with the least support is eliminated and the process continues until Thomas Bach's successor is chosen.Cardinals in 2005, ahead of the conclave to elect the successor of Pope John Paul II.
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