Rudy Bond

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Rudy Bond (born October 1, 1912 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † March 29, 1982 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American actor.

life and career

Rudy Bond began his acting career at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City . After a serious wound during his army service in World War II and his return to the United States, he worked temporarily as a troop entertainer for the USO . In a talent competition he won a place at the renowned Actors Studio of Lee Strasberg , where he studied alongside later film greats such as Marlon Brando , Paul Newman and James Dean . Broadway director Elia Kazan , who cast Bond in substantial supporting roles in two of his plays, also taught at the Actors Studio . One of them was Endstation Sehnsucht , in which Bond played the role of the violent neighbor Steve Hubbel . He embodied this role in Kazan 's film adaptation of the same name in 1951. In 1956 he appeared again in Endstation Sehnsucht on Broadway, but this time in the role of Mitch.

In the following decades, Bond shuttled between theater, television and film engagements in New York and Hollywood. He often played rough and unpolished figures, often workers. Although Bond never became a star in the film business, he played minor supporting roles in several major film classics. In Die Faust im Nacken (1954) he played a dock worker named Moose, at the beginning of the film The Twelve Jurors (1957) he was seen as a bored-looking judge, in The Godfather (1972) he played the mafia boss Don Carmine Cuneo , and in Stops the death ride of the subway 123 (1974) he played the police chief.

Shortly before a theater performance in Denver, in which he was to play Babe Ruth , he died at the age of 69 of a heart attack . He left behind his wife Alma Halbert Bond (* 1923), to whom he had been married since 1947. She is also known as a psychologist and author of numerous books. At the time of his death, Bond was working on an autobiography that was later completed by Alma and was published by Birch Book Press in 2000 under the title I Rode A Streetcar Named Desire .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at Zanestein
  2. ↑ Rudy Bond in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Bond, Rudy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1982
Place of death Denver , Colorado