James Bachman

English comedian, actor and writer James BachmanJames Bachman recording the BBC Radio 4 comedy pilot Zoom, 6 May 2008.BornJames Hamilton Bachman (1972-02-24) 24 February 1972 (age 54)Cuckfield, Sussex, EnglandEducationEmmanuel College, CambridgeOccupationsComedian, actor, writerYears active1996–present 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 had a small role in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction. Early life Bachman was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex to American father Thomas Edwin Bachman, of Meadow House, Battle, East Sussex, and English mother Carolyn, daughter of Major-General Godfrey John Hamilton, CBE, DSO, of The Old House, Hailsham, Sussex, and writer Mary Margaret Kaye, daughter of Lt-Col Sir Cecil Kaye, an officer in the British Indian Army and minister of Tonk State, India. Bachman attended Radley College and studied Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, focusing on Physics and Mathematics. He joined Footlights, having b