
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).

as Billy Ribbons

as Frank

as Grizz

as Trueman Quinn

as Dusty

as Echo

as Captain Walker

as Mark

as Det. Jack Richards

as Jim

as Baxter

as Surly Publican

as Roger

as Franco St. Clair

as Roy

as Merrick

as Captain Walker

as Tom Turner

as Viktor

as Walker

as Dark One Lord

as Tattoo Artist

as Mr. Weeks

as Eddie Skinner

as Bartender

as Bartender

as Sergei

as Inmate

as Hondo

as Robert

as Cowboy Pimp

as Knot Top Gang Member

as Ed Gates

as Moffat

as The Manager

as C.C.

as Motel Owner

as Biker #1

as Curry

as Carl

as Doug Zwick

as Tyson

as Ted

as Roughneck #2

as Goran

as Travis

as Man

as Cap Clarke

as Kevin

as Norvid

as Guy Lachaud

as Wes

as Chuck

as Leon

as Jerry

as The Photographer

as Anthony

as Shreck

as Carlos

as Prisoner #1

as Sal

as Cochrane

as Dr. Susskind

as Grimes

as Cell Guard

as MacLaughin

as Mugger

as Henry

as George

as Transit

as Tony

as Sully

as Norbett

as Larabee

as Casper