John bach biography
John Bach
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".
Bach (pronounced Baytch) got the acting bug back in Wales, in his very first role as Father Christmas. After tripping over his gumboots, "everyone laughed, so I did it again". His arrival in New Zealand was well-timed; Bach would become one of the most recognisable actors in the country's early TV and film industry.
Two years were spent travelling around England in an experimental theatre group, before a return to New Zealand in the early 1970s. His earliest screen appearance was as a blundering henchman on 1974 kids fantasy series The Games Affair, a role that required shaving off his beard and flowing locks — and his eyebrows. Summoned to Wellington for another gig, he tried out for new soap Close to Home. Bach remembers his audition as "shocking", as he'd rarely acted in front of the camera. In 1975 he made his appearance on TV One as school teacher Tom Hearte.
"For the first few weeks we filmed the episodes live, which was the scariest bloody thing on earth. Up till then I’d only ever done stage, and I was using a stage voice. The lovely Tony Issac pulled me aside one day and said 'you don’t have to shout — it's not the stage'. But you had to get it right; not only actors but the crew too."
Bach made the transition from stage to screen actor by observing camera movements and fellow acto New Zealand actor This article is about the actor. For the basketball player and coach, see Johnny Bach. For other uses, see Johann Bach. John Bach Garndiffaith, Monmouthshire , Wales 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. 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 operaClose to Home. In 1992 he starred as Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell in the 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. In 2010 Bach appeared in NZ science fiction series This Is Not My Life as the sinister Harry Sheridan, as magistrate Titus Calavius in Spartacus: Blood and Sand and in an episode of Legend of the Seeker. He has also appeared in several New Zealand films, including Utu, Carry Me Back, Goodbye Pork Pie, The Last Tattoo, Pallet on the Floor, Old Scores (in which he had a central role), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt. In 2014 he performed as body double for Saruman in place of Christopher Lee, who was unable to fly to New Zealand for principal photography on The Rehabilitation of patients with neuromuscular disease, pulmonary disease, and home mechanical ventilation are the primary clinical focus of Dr. Bach, and he has authored more than 250 publications including 7 books on neuromuscular, pulmonary rehabilitation and noninvasive mechanical ventilation. [Bibliography] He has lectured on these topics in over 30 countries. Dr. John R. Bach received his medical degree from the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1976, and completed his residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University in 1980. He is a fellow of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the American College of Chest Physicians, and a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Bach was the Clinical Supervisor of the Howard Rusk Ventilator Unit at Goldwater Memorial Hospital in New York City from 1980 to 1981, developed a noninvasive respiratory management program at the University of Poitiers, France from 1981 to 1983, and Medical Director of Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation Ventilator Unit in West Orange, N.J from 1993 to 1994. Since 1983, Dr. Bach has been on the faculty of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School where he currently is... Contact and Appointments are available through NJMED Health Care Providers. You are welcome to print or email the articles on this website provided you reference "www.DoctorBach.com". For any other use, please contact Rich Clingman prior to use. American historian (1852–1932) John Bach McMaster (June 29, 1852 – May 24, 1932) was an American historian. McMaster was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, a native of New York, was a banker and planter at New Orleans at the beginning of the Civil War. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1872, worked as a civil engineer in 1873–1877, was instructor in civil engineering at Princeton University in 1877–1883, and in 1883 became professor of American history in the University of Pennsylvania. McMaster was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884. McMaster was the second president of The Franklin Inn Club, serving from 1914 to 1930. McMaster is best known for his History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War (1883 sqq.), a valuable supplement to the more purely political writings of James Schouler, Von Holst and Henry Adams. He began working on it in 1873, having collected material since 1870. His A School History of the United States (1897) was an extremely popular textbook for many years. Besides these books and numerous magazine articles, he published Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters in the "Men of Letters" series (Boston, 1887). His historical work differed from standard practice in that it departed from an exclusively political focus to delve into social history and the lives of ordinary people and also in its use of news papers as sources. In 1884, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.John Bach
Born (1946-06-05) 5 June 1946 (age 78) Years active 1975–present Biography of Dr. John R. Bach
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