Rudy Bond

Rudolph Bond October 10 1912 March 29 1982 was an American actor who was active from 1947 until his death His work spanned Broadway Hollywood and US television Bond was introduced to the world of acting at the age of 16 He was playing basketball with a group of friends when Julie Sutton the director of a city amateur acting group Neighborhood Players which performed in the same building as the basketball area approached the group and asked if anybody wanted to be in an upcoming play He volunteered and acted in several plays before leaving Philadelphia to join the United States Army He spent four years in the army was wounded while serving in World War II and returned to Philadelphia upon his discharge He continued acting in the Neighborhood Players until 1945 when he won second prize in the John Golden Award for Actors which allowed him to enroll in Elia Kazans Actors Studio in New York City Kazan got him a substantial role in two stage productions After his success in the second A Streetcar Named Desire he was invited to Hollywood to recreate his stage role in the movie version In 1951 he appeared in Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York and in 1960 he toured in Fiorello which starred Tom Bosley He spent the next thirty years bouncing between California and New York and between movie and television work