Ward Bond

Ward Bond

Gruff, burly American character actor. Born in 1903 in Benkelman, Nebraska (confirmed by Social Security records; sources stating 1905 or Denver, Colorado are in error.) Bond grew up in Denver, the son of a lumberyard worker. He attended the University of Southern California, where he got work as an extra through a football teammate who would become both his best friend and one of cinema's biggest stars: John Wayne. Director John Ford promoted Bond from extra to supporting player in the film Salute (1929), and became another fast friend. An arrogant man of little tact, yet fun-loving in the extreme, Bond was either loved or hated by all who knew him. His face and personality fit perfectly into almost any type of film, and he appeared in hundreds of pictures in his more than 30-year career, in both bit parts and major supporting roles. In the films of Wayne and Ford, particularly, he was nearly always present. Among his most memorable roles are John L. Sullivan in Gentleman Jim (1942), Det. Tom Polhaus in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and the Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnson Clayton The Searchers (1956). An ardent but anti-intellectual patriot, he was perhaps the most vehement proponent, among the Hollywood community, of blacklisting in the witch hunts of the 1950s, and he served as a most unforgiving president of the ultra-right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. In the mid-'50s he gained his greatest fame as the star of TV's Wagon Train (1957). During its production, Bond traveled to Dallas, Texas, to attend a football game and died there in his hotel room of a massive heart attack.
Ward Edmondson

Ward Edmondson

Jonathan Ward Edmondson was born in Eastern North Carolina and started taking tap, jazz, and ballet at age 9. Ward was into everything possible, including scouts, swim team, little league baseball, and choir, which eventually led to voice coaching and musicals in and after high-school. With seemingly boundless energy, Ward was a medaled swimmer and excelled in dance. He went on to teach ballroom and country western dance to middle grade students and adults. Performing for many various venues including local TV station appearances, Ward also went on the road with his dance troupe to win numerous awards and competitions up and down the East Coast. Ward was a dance major at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Virginia. There, he choreographed and danced feature and lead roles with the Bristol Ballet Company under the direction of Constance Harding, while studying acting, voice and other aspects of theater like historical costuming, set design and construction, and sound and lighting for theater. After moving back to North Carolina, Ward received a Bachelor of Science degree from East Carolina University in 1994 and embarked on a laboratory science career. With an undying passion for the arts, Ward continued to teach dance for Bobbi Collins Dance/Arts Studio. He choreographed and performed in numerous events. He was a charter member of the Bobbi Collins Dance Company and traveled to teach aerobics, ballroom, and country/western dance at Dance Conventions such as Danny Hoctor's Dance Caravan and he sports many trophies from Dance Competitions in New York, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. In 2000, Ward spent the summer in Charlotte, North Carolina studying massage therapy at Southeastern School of Massage and Neuromuscular Therapy. In the fall, he moved to Philadelphia and began working at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, practicing massage therapy at night. Ward continued to take acting classes, attend workshops for film, and danced and performed supernumerary/light walker work for the Opera Company of Philadelphia until he moved to Hollywood in 2007 in further pursuit of his dream.

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