About Jean Bach
Lived 1918 – 2013 (aged 94–95). Jean Bach was an American film director and screenwriter.
Jean Bach (September 27, 1918 – May 27, 2013) was an American documentary film director, radio producer, and jazz aficionado. Bach directed the 1994 documentary, A Great Day in Harlem, based on a 1958 photograph of the same name.
Biography Bach was born Jean Enzinger in Chicago on September 27, 1918, and raised in Milwaukee.
Jean Bach died at her home in Manhattan on May 27, 2013, at the age of 94. Her husband, Bob Bach, a production coordinator on What's My Line?, whom she married in 1948, died in 1985.
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American film director and radio producer
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Jean Bach was born in 1918.
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Jean Bach died on 27 May 2013.
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