Rudolph Richard Bond (1912-1982) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Biography

• • Rudolph Richard Bond was born in 1912. He passed away in 1982.

Obituary

• • Rudy Bond, who played the neighbor Steve in the original Broadway and film versions of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, died of a heart attack March 29 in Denver. He was 68 years old and lived in Los Angeles.

• • Mr. Bond, who was born in Philadelphia, appeared in Streetcar on Broadway in 1947 with Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy, and again in a 1956 Broadway revival and national tour of the play. The film was made in 1951.

• • His other Broadway credits included Golden Boy, in 1952; Big Man and Match Play, both in 1966; and Illya Darling, a musical version of Never on Sunday, with Melina Mercouri, in 1967. He was in the national company of Fiorello in 1960-61.

• • Among the films in which he appeared were Miss Sadie Thompson, in 1953; On the Waterfront, 1954; 12 Angry Men, 1957; Middle of the Night, 1959; The Godfather, 1972; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, 1974; and The Rose, 1979. At his death he was on his way to a rehearsal for What the Babe Said, a one-act play by Martin Halpern now in previews that opens tomorrow at the Denver Center Theater Company.

• • Mr. Bond is survived by his wife, Alma; a daughter, Janet, and two sons, Zane and John.

• • A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 1982, Section B, Page 12, New York Times International Edition ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ NY Times

• "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HFQB-15T2 : 15 February 2020), Rudolph Baum, 1912.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFBK-JBB : 3 February 2021), Rudolph Bond in entry for Louis Bond, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQJN-715 : 13 December 2019), Rudolph Bond in household of Freda Bond, Ward 46, Philadelphia, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 51-1986, sheet 3B, line 61, family 59, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3749.

• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8T4-QLX : 5 December 2014), Rudolph R Bond, enlisted 15 Dec 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZW-KNP7 : 22 July 2021), Rudolph Bond and Alma M Halbert, 19 Jan 1948; citing Marriage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.

• Pennsylvania, County Marriages

• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZW-KFLG : 22 July 2021), Rudolph Bond and Alma M Halbert, 1 Feb 1948; citing Marriage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.

• Pennsylvania, County Marriages

• Wikipedia - Rudy Bond

• IMDb - Rudy Bond

• Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

• Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014.

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