14 Facts About Rudy Bond

Rudolph Bond was an American actor who was active from 1947 until his death.

Rudy Bond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second youngest of five children.

Rudy Bond was raised in urban Philadelphia by his mother.

Rudy Bond was educated in Philadelphia schools, and eventually received a BA degree from Central High, the only school in the nation certificated to grant such degrees.

Rudy Bond was introduced to the world of acting at the age of 16.

Rudy Bond was playing basketball with a group of friends when Julie Sutton, the director of a city amateur acting group approached the group and asked if anybody wanted to be in an upcoming play.

Rudy Bond volunteered, and acted in several plays before leaving Philadelphia to join the United States Army.

Rudy Bond spent four years in the army, was wounded while serving in World War II, and returned to Philadelphia upon his discharge.

Rudy Bond 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 Kazan's Actors Studio in New York City.

Rudy Bond spent the next thirty years bouncing between California and New York, and between movie and television work.

Rudy Bond met Alma Halbert when she auditioned for a Neighborhood Players role.

Rudy Bond published sixteen books, and numerous articles both about psychiatry and about her Hollywood experiences.

Rudy Bond died of a heart attack in Denver, Colorado, outside the box office of a theater where the next day he was scheduled to begin appearing in a production of What the Babe Said.

Rudy Bond wrote an autobiography but it was not completed before he died.