1. Derek William Douglas Bond MC was a British actor.
10 Facts About Derek Bond
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Derek Bond was President of the trade union Equity from 1984 to 1986.
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Derek Bond attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, London.
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Derek Bond enlisted in the Coldstream Guards of the British Army soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, where his education marked him out for officer training, and he was duly sent to Sandhurst.
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Derek Bond was captured in Florence in the summer of 1944, and spent the last few months of the war in Stalag VII-A, a Bavarian POW camp.
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Derek Bond enjoyed a varied film, stage and television career, which began in 1938 with experience with the Finchley Amateur Dramatic Society.
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Derek Bond made a lasting impression in the title role of the Ealing Studios production of Nicholas Nickleby.
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Derek Bond was president of the actors' union Equity for a tempestuous period during the 1980s.
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Derek Bond resigned when a ban on members working in South Africa became union policy after his return to the UK.
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Derek Bond died on 15 October 2006, at St George's Hospital in Tooting, London, and was survived by his third wife Annie, a son, a daughter and a stepson.