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John Tench
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John Tench (born October 7, 1965, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American-Canadian actor, director, writer, and poet, 6′ 0″ (183 cm) tall, who grew up in Canada and began working in theatre and film in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. He started his career at the legendary Factory Theatre Lab with Ken Gass, then studied and worked in New York City, London, Paris, and across Continental Europe before returning to Toronto, where he founded the influential theatre company Theatre Kathartic in 1980, touring internationally with works by Sam Shepard, Dario Fo, and Bertolt Brecht. He is a master of accents and dialects, has been nominated for numerous Best Actor awards, and currently teaches directin…
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John Tench (born October 7, 1965, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American-Canadian actor, director, writer, and poet, 6′ 0″ (183 cm) tall, who grew up in Canada and began working in theatre and film in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. He started his career at the legendary Factory Theatre Lab with Ken Gass, then studied and worked in New York City, London, Paris, and across Continental Europe before returning to Toronto, where he founded the influential theatre company Theatre Kathartic in 1980, touring internationally with works by Sam Shepard, Dario Fo, and Bertolt Brecht. He is a master of accents and dialects, has been nominated for numerous Best Actor awards, and currently teaches directing and scene study at the Toronto Film School and Yorkville University. His most notable film credits include a Knot Top Gang Member in Watchmen (2009, directed by Zack Snyder), Roughneck #2 in Brokeback Mountain (2005, directed by Ang Lee), a Motel Owner in Shooter (2007, directed by Antoine Fuqua), Viktor in The Colony (2013), Hondo in Angel and the Badman (2009), and a Cowboy Pimp in Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009). On television he is best known as Alexander Graham Bell in Murdoch Mysteries (2012, 5 episodes), with additional credits in American Gods (2017), Schitt's Creek (2019), Alias Grace (2017, 4 episodes), Designated Survivor (2016), Fringe (2009), Stargate SG-1 (2007), The X-Files (1995), Friday the 13th: The Series (1989), and Ginny & Georgia (2021). In video games he voiced T-Bone Grady in Watch Dogs 2 (2016) and Dutch Roosevelt in Far Cry 5 (2018).
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BODY OF WORK
John Tench's Filmography
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Lunar Sway
A Bluegrass Christmas
as Billy Ribbons
The Camp Host
as Frank
Cascade
as Grizz
Bones of Crows
as Trueman Quinn
Here for Blood
as Dusty
Die in a Gunfight
as Echo
Hero Dog: The Journey Home
as Captain Walker
Kitty Mammas
as Mark
Dreams
as Det. Jack Richards
Robbery
as Jim
Christmas Inheritance
as Baxter
Joseph and Mary
as Surly Publican
Standoff
as Roger
Let's Rap
as Franco St. Clair
88
as Roy
Gaybasher
as Merrick
Against the Wild
as Captain Walker
Christmas with Tucker
as Tom Turner
The Colony
as Viktor
Virtual Lies
as Walker
In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds
as Dark One Lord
Comforting Skin
as Tattoo Artist
Repeaters
as Mr. Weeks
Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray
as Eddie Skinner
Goodnight for Justice
as Bartender
The Stranger
as Bartender
Icarus
as Sergei
Tooth Fairy
as Inmate
Angel and the Badman
as Hondo
The Zero Sum
as Robert
Dead Hooker in a Trunk
as Cowboy Pimp
Watchmen
as Knot Top Gang Member
Blonde and Blonder
as Ed Gates
BloodRayne II: Deliverance
as Moffat
Love Notes
as The Manager
Alien Agent
as C.C.
Shooter
as Motel Owner
Air Buddies
as Biker #1
The Perfect Suspect
as Curry
The Secrets of Comfort House
as Carl
The Suspect
as Doug Zwick
Presumed Dead
as Tyson
Augusta, Gone
as Ted
Brokeback Mountain
as Roughneck #2
Premonition
as Goran
Within
as Travis
The Life
as Man
The Winning Season
as Cap Clarke
Black Point
as Kevin
The Operative
as Norvid
Backroads
as Guy Lachaud
Grizzly Falls
as Wes
The Ticket
as Chuck
The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.
as Leon
Carpool
as Jerry
No Poster
Johnny Shortwave
as The Photographer
Dead Ahead
as Anthony
Cyberjack
as Shreck
Power of Attorney
as Carlos
Deadly Vows
as Prisoner #1
Beyond Suspicion
as Sal
Heritage Minutes: Nitro
as Cochrane
Landslide
as Dr. Susskind
Christmas on Division Street
as Grimes
If Looks Could Kill
as Cell Guard
Dead Certain
as MacLaughin
Home for Christmas
as Mugger
Outcast
as Henry
Straight Line
as George
The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II
as Transit
City in Panic
as Tony
The Darkside
as Sully
Niagara Strip
as Larabee
No Poster
Virgin Paradise
as Norbett
Race to Midnight
The Haunting in Wicker Park
as Ben
No Poster
The Bounce
as Casper