 Bunce left the RSC to play Romeo in Neil Bartlett's production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1994.Bunce made his big screen debut when Jerry Zucker offered him the role of Peter in his movie "First Knight" which starred Sean Connery and Richard Gere.Numerous TV appearances followed in acclaimed television dramas such as "The Jury" directed by Pete Travis, in which he played Charles Gore alongside Derek Jacobi and Gerard Butler; "All the King's Men" a 1999 BBC film based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the "Norfolk Regiment", in which he played 2nd Lt. Frederick Radley alongside David Jason and Maggie Smith; "P.O.W" directed by John Strickland, in which he played Jewish prisoner of war Harry Freeman and "Egypt" in which he played Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac.