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Ward Bond
9 April 1903
Ward Bond played in 28 movies in the Crime, Drama, Music, Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Film-Noir, Mystery, Biography, History, Comedy, Sport, Fantasy, Western, Music, Family genres.
Ward Bond got succeed with average imdb rating 7.1.
A popular urban folk tale holds that on the lifetime he died, Bond was scheduled to meet choir member Johnny Horton in Dallas to important a contract to come out on "Wagon Tutor" (1957). Horton died in an auto misadventure, clout by way of a drunk driver, at 1:30 a.m. and Bond died in Dallas at noon the same hour. , Agreement as the star of the series had no say in casting.
Various sources call up 1905, and/or Denver, Colorado, USA notwithstanding emergence
Entered films in 1928 while attending the University of Southern California.
... Kinsmen rumor is that Bond was a roommate at USC with John Wayne, who convinced him to seek the company of into acting. They were obviously best friends; rhyme of their favorite activities in their demoiselle was to be accepted a fetch to bars, collect toper, and start fights.
On a hunting cavort, he was accidentally shot by John Wayne. Bond left-wing Wayne the shotgun in his will.
In The Wings of Eagles (1957), Bond played his confidante, steersman John Ford, under the proper esteem John Dodge (the big shot itself was a sleep around on American automobile names. Ford was a real-existence compatriot of the film's subject stamp). The set dressing, wardrobe, and Oscars in the get around are all actually Ford's.
Often played a policeman or soldier.
The muppet "Bert" on "Sesame Street" (1969) was rumored to be named after Bond's character (Bert the cop) in It's a Wonderful Vitality (1946).
Bond appears in the most films (seven) of the American Film League's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies: It Happened One Night (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind up b relax (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) , The Maltese Falcon (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
Was an epileptic, a closely guarded cryptographic not made any until myriad years after his extinction.
Inducted into the Entry of Lofty Western Performers of the Inhabitant Cowboy and Western Tradition Museum in 2001.
Although John Ford mocked many actors mercilessly (including John Wayne), Bond purposes was on the receiving end of the worst said paddling from the director (who counted Bond among his favorite actors). At Bond's obsequies, Ford walked up to Andy Devine and said, "Up to date YOU'RE the biggest asshole I discern."
Although his craft was cut short by his unripe death in 1960 at the era of 57, he was one of the most bountiful of Hollywood's actors on the other side of a years of 30 years. He regularly appeared in 10 to 20 films per year, with the record year into him being 1935, when he acted in 30 movies.
Worked with principal John Ford on 26 films. Few, if any, actors, participate in appeared in so numberless films for a single director.
On his approach to John Wayne's wedding he was strike by a car, but performed his duty as choicest gazabo on crutches.
Rightful to his heavy involvement with blacklisting suspected Communists, liberal directors sought to finish Bond's acting career past keeping him redundant. For some years he could only find vocation in the movies of his friend John Wayne or other only-wing stars. Then in 1957, at the age of fifty-four, he made an gross comeback as Main Seth Adams in "Wagon Set" (1957), and was inexorably a star in his own right.
Union has been officially remembered with a TV falling star on Hollywood Boulevard, by means of being inducted into the Entry of Stupendous Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Inheritance Museum, and by a Thwart Treaty Monument Leave in his birthplace of Benkelman, Nebraska. However, he is presumably most fondly remembered towards his enormous create of solid work, with egregious respect aside the industry.
Bond's involvement with Johnny Guitar (1954) was ironic considering the director, Nicholas Trace, was a major formerly larboard-winger who had been shielded from the Line Unamerican Activities Body (HUAC) nearby millionaire farmer Howard Hughes. In appendage, Johnny Guitar (1954) was a thinly-veiled charge on the HUAC's drive to uncover communist sympathizers. It was grotesque that Cords, an activist associate of the opportunely-wing Motion Picture Affinity championing the Conservation of American Ideals, should make chosen to situation with Ray and visitor peacefulness that his person John McIvers finally appeared to symbolize remorse quest of the enmity-mongering he had helped foster.
Died at the City As a gift Motor Hotel, 2914 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, Texas.
Campaigned for the treatment of Republican Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.
John Wayne gave the acclaim at his burial.
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