John Bach (born June 5, 1946) is a Welsh-born actor who has spent most of his career working in New Zealand.
His best known role internationally is Madril in the two last movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003), but he has substantial television credits in New Zealand, including the title role of Detective Inspector Duggan in the police crime series Duggan, a regular character in the long-running soap opera Close to Home and a recurring character in the Australian TV series Farscape. He has also appeared in several New Zealand films, such as Utu, Carry Me Back, Goodbye Pork Pie, Old Scores and Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
His Lord of the Rings character, Madril, does not appear in the book. The name was created by inverting the middle letters of the character name Mardil, who, according to the book, was the first Steward of Gondor.
