James Bachman

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James Hamilton Bachman (born 24 February 1972) is an English comedian, actor, and writer.

He has written for and appeared in many British television and radio shows, including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Saxondale, Bleak Excited, and Sorry, I've Got No Head.

He co-starred in Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014.

Early life

Bachman was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, to American father Thomas Edwin Bachman, of Meadow House, East Sussex, and English mother Carolyn, the niece of Major-General Godfrey John Hamilton, a British Indian Army sergeant and minister of Tonk State, India.

At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Bachman studied Natural Sciences, mainly Physics and Mathematics. As a youth, he joined Footlights, becoming a Monty Python and Fry and Laurie fan. It was while in Footlights that he first met David Mitchell and Robert Webb, with whom he would collaborate with on their shows, as well as Mark Evans, the future writing partner. Dan Mazer, writer and director Dan Mazer, and television scriptwriter Robert Thorogood were among his student comedy contemporaries.

He was co-vice president of Footlights in 1993 and wrote for the 1994 Footlights magazine The Barracuda Jazz Option. After graduating, he returned to direct the upcoming revue Fall From Grace, which starred Mitchell, Webb, and Matthew Holness amongst its cast members. Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 2: He also produced a production of the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 2, starring Mitchell as Jeffrey Bernard and Webb in various roles.

By the time Bachman completed university, he had lost interest in his field of study and decided instead to go into comedy.

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Career

Bachman began a short-lived sketch double-act with fellow Cambridge comedian Matthew Holness shortly after graduating. In 1996, Bachman & Holness performed their first sketch show Rummage in the Pleasance Attic at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Shoes debuted at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge this year, and they were recognized for one of the first appearances of Holness' character Garth Marenghi.

Bachman went on to spend the early part of his career as a comedian, starting as a solo writer on radio shows such as Week Ending and then building a writing team with Mark Evans. Ed Stone Is Dead, That Mitchell and Webb Look as a pair, The Very World of Milton Jones, The Jack Docherty Show, The Priory, The Richard Blackwood Show, The Priory, Rhona, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Jerome Johnson, Ed Stone Is Dead, That Mitchell and Webb Sound, and That Mitchell and Webb Look. Bachman and Evans created many of their much-loved sketches, including "Numberwang," "David's Chiropractor," 'Glucozade Port," and "Bed & Booze."

During this period, he made few appearances on television in shows that he was writing about as well as occasional appearances in shows such as 15 Storeys High, The Robinsons, and Comedy Nation.

Bachman, Evans, and Robert Thorogood founded the sketch comedy club TBA-2 at the Latchmere Theatre, frustrated with the lack of outlets for sketch and character actors on the London comedy circuit. (Now Theatre503). (The name was a play on London's 'first sketch comedy club' TBA was founded by Henry Naylor and Andy Parsons in the mid-Nineties.) Mitchell, Webb, Holness, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, The Four Horseman, Stuart & Quigley, Bodle, Ben & Arn, Nick Doody, Andy Bodle, Spencer Brown, and Georgie Morgan were among the regular performers.

Bachman and Evans began performing weekly at the Etcetera Theatre in London, creating a free-form live sketch-sitcom under the name Work In Progress. Hmm, which appeared in the Assembly Rooms, became part of this residency's first Edinburgh Fringe show Hmm. Bachman and Evans returned to Edinburgh in 2002 with their second show The Bachman and Evans Special Edition, which promised to bring DVD-style commentary and 'extra scenes' to their traditional live-sitcom adventure format. Bachman's Edinburgh Fringe shows for Mitchell and Webb in 2001 and 2002, as well as the Mitchell and Webb Story and The Mitchell and Webb Clones.

Lucy Montgomery and Barunka O'Shaughnessy joined Bachman and Barunka O'Shaughnessy to form the clown comedy troupe Population: 3. Gladiatrix was designed by director Cal McCrystal and performed at Soho Theatre in London and later at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it had some success. Population: 3 returned to the Fringe in 2003 with their most popular film The Wicker Woman (which was directed by Robin Hardy, the creator of the original The Wicker Man) and its 2004 sequel The Elephant Woman, both directed by David Sant, with the intention of taking Hollywood films and reversing the sex of the main character.

Bachman was later invited to join Ealing Live!, a weekly live comedy show at Ealing Studios that was inspired by the American show Saturday Night Live and the 1980s British comedy show Saturday Live and Friday Night Live. Oscar Wilde, The James Bachman International Orchestra, and Papa Christmas appeared at comedy nights including Oram and Meeten's Club Fantastico, The Book Club, and The Pros From Dover as a regular fixture on the live character and sketch circuit in London.

He and Evans, a researcher from Radio 4 in 2008, produced a pilot based on Edinburgh's comedy style. The series, called Zoom, was written by and starring Bachman and Evans, and the film stars David Soul and Carla Mendonça, as Melvyn Bragg. Nicholas Parsons' appearance as himself made the event even more special guest appearances. The show had been created as a TV series with Absolutely Productions but not by Radio 4.

Bachman has been active and cameo appearances in Saxondale, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, "Jonathan Creek," Hyperdrive, Miranda, Peep Show, Rev. Mount Pleasant and several other television and radio shows are among the many other television and radio shows on the Internet. He co-wrote and starred in three series of the CBBC sketch comedy "I've Got No Head," starring Ross, the only student at the North Barrasay school, Mark, the record breaker, Prudith, who with her friend Jasmine, thought everything costs a thousand pounds, and the beekeeper who believes that his bees can help.

He appeared on both That Mitchell and Webb Look and That Webb Sound, as well as In the winter of 2006, he toured with David Mitchell and Robert Webb as part of Mitchell and Webb's live show The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb.

In all five of BBC Radio 4's comedy Bleak Expectations, Bachman appeared as jolly idiot Harry Biscuit from 2007 to 2012.

He has worked on shorts Stiffy and Monsters and Rabbits as well as a cameo appearance in the Bain and Armstrong film Magicians. In 2013, he appeared in Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction as Gill Wembley, head scientist to Joshua Joyce, played by Stanley Tucci. The film was released in 2014 and became the first film to take one billion dollars at the worldwide box office.

Although Evans now works as a solo writer, he and Bachman also collaborate on occasion. In addition, Bachman writes in collaboration with a number of other comedy writers, including Tom Meeten, Tony Way, Gareth Tunley, Arnold Widdowson, and Toby Davies.

He appeared in Millie Inbetween from October to December 2014, but in series 2, he changed to Richard Lumsden due to Bachman's concern with his music career.

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