James Bachman

From October to December 2014, he played Tony McDonald in Millie Inbetween for series one, however, the role was recast to Richard Lumsden in series 2, due to Bachman focusing on his music career.

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

Bachman and Tunley make their own improvised web series Peeder Jigson's Video Diary published on Funny or Die and on YouTube in which Bachman appears as the film director Peeder Jigson (a version of New Zealand film director Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies). The show is a spoof behind-the-scenes video diary purporting to show the making of the Jackson's three Hobbit films (here referred to as 'The Hubbard'). In the videos Tunley often blessed the role of Peeder's friend Daryl who is operating the camera and therefore unseen, but sometimes heard. Some of the videos also purport to be shot by Peeder himself, and in one instance, due to illness, Peeder claims to have let Sir Ian McKellen make one. The first video in the series was posted to Funny or Die in January 2011, almost a year and a half before Peter Jackson began uploading his own official production diaries of the making of the Hobbit. In July 2012 Empire Magazine published a full-page interview with Jigson about the shooting of the movies. Bachman and Tunley also tweet as Peeder Jigson.

In 2008 he and Evans recorded a pilot for Radio 4 based on the style of their Edinburgh shows comedy. The show, called Zoom, was written by and starred Bachman and Evans, and co-starred David Soul and Carla Mendonça with Jon Glover as Melvyn Bragg. It also featured a special guest appearance by Nicholas Parsons as himself. The show had originally been developed as a TV series with Absolutely Productions and was not picked up for a series by Radio 4.

Bachman has since appeared in regular and cameo roles in Saxondale, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, "Jonathan Creek", Hyperdrive, Miranda, Peep Show, Rev. and Mount Pleasant as well as a number of other television and radio programmes. From 2008 to 2010 he co-wrote and starred in three series of the CBBC sketch show Sorry, I've Got No Head, appearing as some of the shows most popular characters including Ross, the only student at the North Barrasay school, Mark, the record breaker, Prudith, who with her friend Jasmine thinks everything costs a thousand pounds, and the beekeeper who thinks maybe his bees can help.

Bachman is also well known to BBC Radio 4 listeners as jolly idiot Harry Biscuit in all five series of the BBC radio comedy Bleak Expectations, which ran from 2007 to 2012.

He was a regular member of the cast of both That Mitchell and Webb Look and That Mitchell and Webb Sound and in the winter of 2006 he toured with David Mitchell and Robert Webb as part of their live show The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb.

In early 2001 Bachman and Evans began a weekly live residency at the Etcetera Theatre in London, developing a free-form live sketch-sitcom under the title Work In Progress. Material from this residency became their first Edinburgh Fringe show Hmm... which ran at the Assembly Rooms. Bachman and Evans returned to Edinburgh in 2002 with their second show The Bachman and Evans Special Edition, which attempted to add DVD-style commentary and 'extra scenes' to their normal live-sitcom-adventure format. In 2001 and 2002 and 2002 Bachman also directed Edinburgh Fringe shows for Mitchell and Webb: The Mitchell and Webb Story and The Mitchell and Webb Clones.

At the end of 2001 Bachman joined Lucy Montgomery and Barunka O'Shaughnessy to form the clown comedy trio Population: 3. Their first show Gladiatrix was devised with director Cal McCrystal and performed at the Soho Theatre in London and subsequently at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it achieved some success. Continuing the theme of taking Hollywood films and reversing the sex of the main character, Population: 3 returned to the Fringe in 2003 with their most successful show The Wicker Woman (which was seen by Robin Hardy the director of the original The Wicker Man), and its 2004 follow-up The Elephant Woman, both devised with director David Sant.

Shortly after graduating, Bachman began a short-lived sketch double-act with fellow Cambridge comedian Matthew Holness. Bachman & Holness performed their first sketch show Rummage in the Pleasance Attic at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. Their second show Shoes debuted at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge the following year and is notable for including one of the first ever performances of Holness' character Garth Marenghi.

He became co-vice-president of Footlights in 1993 and appeared in and wrote for the 1994 Footlights revue The Barracuda Jazz Option. He returned after graduation to direct the subsequent revue Fall From Grace, which included amongst its cast Mitchell, Webb, and Matthew Holness. That same year he also directed a production of the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell 2, starring Mitchell as Jeffrey Bernard and Webb in multiple roles.

Bachman was then invited to become part of the regular team behind Ealing Live!, a weekly live comedy show at Ealing Studios inspired by the format of the American show Saturday Night is Alive and the 1980s British comedy shows Saturday Live and Friday Night Live. He also became a regular fixture on the live character and sketch circuit in London, performing as Oscar Wilde, The James Bachman International Orchestra and Papa Christmas at comedy nights including Oram and Meeten's Club Fantastico, The Book Club, and The Pros From Dover.

James Hamilton Bachman (born 24 February 1972) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He has written for and acted in many British television and radio programmes, including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Saxondale, Bleak Expectations and Sorry, I've Got No Head. In 2014, he co-starred in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction.