Bond, Ward

International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, (2000) by Rodney Farnsworth

BOND, Ward

Nationality: American. Born: Denver, Colorado, 9 April 1905. Education: University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Family: Married 1) Doris Sellers, 1936 (divorced 1944); 2) Mary Lou (Bond), 1954. Career: 1929—while attending USC, selected, along with John Wayne, by John Ford to appear in film Salute , which resulted in lifelong friendship and professional association between Bond, Ford, and Wayne; 1929–59—in supporting roles in some 200 films for several major directors including Ford, Hawks, Fleming, etc.; 1957–60—star of TV series Wagon Train . Died: In Dallas, Texas, 5 November 1960.

Films as Actor:

1929

Salute (Ford); Words and Music (Tinling)

1930

Born Reckless (Ford); The Big Trail (Walsh)

1932

High Speed (Lederman); White Eagles (Hillyer); Rackety Rax (Werker); Hello, Trouble (Hillyer); Virtue (Buzzell)

1933

When Strangers Meet (Badger); Heroes for Sale (Wellman); Wild Boys of the Road (Wellman); The Wrecker (Rogell); Unknown Valley (Hillyer); Police Car Seventeen (Hillyer); Obey the Law (Stoloff); The Sundown Rider (Hillyer)

1934

Whirlpool (Neill); Most Precious Thing in Life (Hillyer); Straightaway (Brower); The Poor Rich (Sedgwick); Frontier Marshal (Seiler); Broadway Bill ( Strictly Confidential ) (Capra); It Happened One Night (Capra); The Defense Rests (Hillyer); Fighting Rangers (Seitz); Here Comes the Groom (Sedgwick); The Fighting Code (Hillyer); The Voice in the Night (Coleman); A Man's Game (Lederman); The Crime of Helen Stanley (Lederman); Girl in Danger (Lederman); The Human Side (Buzzell); Kid Millions (Del Ruth); Against the Law (Hillyer)

1935

Devil Dogs of the Air (Bacon); Little Big Shot (Bischoff); The Informer (Ford); The Crimson Trail (Raboch); She Gets Her Man (Nigh); His Night Out (Nigh); Black Fury (Curtiz); Western Courage (Bennett); Fighting Shadows (Selman); Guard That Girl (Hillyer); Murder in the Fleet (Sedgwick); The Headline Woman (Nigh); Waterfront Lady (Santley); Men of the Night (Hillyer); Justice of the Range (Selman); Too Tough to Kill (Lederman)

1936

Cattle Thief (Bennett); Muss 'em Up ( House of Fate ) (Charles Vidor); The Bride Walks Out (Jason); Second Wife (Killy); Without Orders (Landers); Crash Donovan (Nigh); Conflict (Howard); They Met in a Taxi (Green); The Man Who Lived Twice (Lachman); The Legion of Terror (Coleman); The Leathernecks Have Landed ( The Marines Have Landed )(Bretherton); Pride of the Marines (Lederman); Avenging Waters (Bennett)

1937

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang); Dead End (Wyler); Park Avenue Logger ( Tall Timber ; Millionaire Playboy ) (Howard); The Devil's Playground (Kenton); 23½ Hours Leave (Blystone); Night Key (Corrigan); Escape by Night (McFadden); The Wildcatter (Collins); A Fight to the Finish (Coleman)

1938

Born to Be Wild (Kane); Flight into Nowhere (Collins); Hawaii Calls (Cline); Reformatory (Collins); Gun Law (Howard); The Law West of Tombstone (Tryon); Professor Beware (Nugent); Mr. Moto's Gamble (Tinling); Submarine Patrol (Ford); Prison Break (Lubin); Numbered Woman (Karl Brown); Over the Wall (MacDonald); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Litvak)

1939

They Made Me a Criminal (Berkeley); Made for Each Other (Bean); Dodge City (Curtiz); Waterfront (Morse); Gone with the Wind (Fleming); Trouble in Sundown (Howard); Return of the Cisco Kid (Leeds); Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford); Frontier Marshal (Dwan); The Girl from Mexico (Goodwins); The Kid from Kokomo ( The Orphan of the Ring ) (Seiler); Drums along the Mohawk (John Ford); Dust Be My Destiny (Seiler); The Oklahoma Kid (Bacon); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (Cortez); Mr. Moto in Danger Island (Leeds)

1940

Virginia City (Curtiz); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (Leeds); The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford); Little Old New York (King); Santa Fe Trail (Curtiz); Buck Benny Rides Again (Sandrich); The Mortal Storm (Borzage); Kit Carson (Seitz); The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)

1941

Tobacco Road (John Ford); A Man Betrayed (Auer); The Shepherd of the Hills (Hathaway); Swamp Water ( The Man Who Came Back ) (Renoir); Sergeant York (Hawks); Man-power (Walsh); Doctors Don't Tell (Tourneur); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (Enright); The Maltese Falcon (Huston)

1942

The Falcon Takes Over (Reis); In This Our Life (Huston); Ten Gentlemen from West Point (Hathaway); Gentleman Jim (Walsh); Sin Town (Enright)

1943

Hello Frisco, Hello (Humberstone); A Guy Named Joe (Fleming); Hitler—Dead or Alive (Grinde); Slightly Dangerous (Ruggles); They Came to Blow Up America (Ludwig); Cowboy Commandos (Luby)

1944

Home in Indiana (Hathaway); The Sullivans (Bacon); Tall in the Saddle (Marin)

1945

Dakota (Kane); They Were Expendable (John Ford)

1946

Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur); It's a Wonderful Life (Capra); My Darling Clementine (John Ford)