Steve Bond
{{Short description|American actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Steve Bond
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|birth_name=Shlomo Goldberg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=y|1953|04|22}}
| birth_place = Haifa, Israel
| spouse = Cindy Bond
| children= 2 (Including Olympic equestrian Ashlee Bond)
}}
Steve Bond (born Shlomo Goldberg, {{Langx|he|שלמה גולדברג}}, on April 22, 1953) is an Israeli-American television actor and model.
Early life
Shlomo Goldberg (later Steve Bond) was born in Haifa, Israel, to a Romania-born mother and a Hungary-born father who immigrated to Israel.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5qdPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=slIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5600,3493878 |title=Heartthrob: Bond is new soap opera idol |date=1983-08-05 |access-date=2009-11-21 |work=Kingman Daily Miner|first=Richard|last=King}}
Career
Bond made his film debut with a starring role in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, shot in 1965 but not released until 1968. In 1975, he appeared full-frontal nude for a photo-spread published in the October issue of Playgirl magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087804,00.html|date=May 14, 1984|title=Who's the Hottest Name in Soaps Since Tony Geary? It's Shlomo Goldberg|volume=21|issue=19|first=Malcolm|last=Boyes|website=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210025435/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087804,00.html|archive-date=February 10, 2011|access-date=May 4, 2021|url-status=dead}} He moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s. He became a daytime television actor on General Hospital, playing Jimmy Lee Holt from 1983 to 1987. In 1984, Bond posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster. In the early 1980s, he worked as a male stripper for Chippendales and appeared in one of the calendars.{{cite news|last1=Reed|first1=Jon-Michael|title=GH{{'s}} Steve Bond someone to watch|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/anonymous-celebrity-clipping-jan-30-1983-392813/|access-date=October 11, 2017|work=Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph|date=January 30, 1983}} As a Chippendale dancer, he appeared on the 1982 show The Shape of Things.
His early film credits included roles in Massacre at Central High (1976), H.O.T.S. (1979), Gas Pump Girls (1979), Witches' Brew (1980) and The Prey (1983).
1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough leading role as Travis Abilene in Picasso Trigger.
In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year. Later, he starred as a seductive, evil vampire in the movies To Die For (1989) and Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991).
Personal life
In 1982 he married his wife Cindy; they have a daughter, Ashlee Bond, who is now an American-Israeli Olympic show jumping rider who competes for Israel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/ringside-chat-ashlee-bond-family-olympic-ambitions|title=Ringside Chat: Ashlee Bond On Young Horses, Family And Olympic Ambitions|work=The Chronicle of the Horse}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1968
| Erik Brunik | Feature film |
| 1969
| Eddie (uncredited role) | Feature film |
| rowspan=2| 1976
| Cat Murkil and the Silks | Joey Murkil | Feature film |
| Massacre at Central High
| Craig | Feature film |
| rowspan=2| 1979
| H.O.T.S. | John | Feature film |
| Gas Pump Girls
| Butch | Feature film |
| 1980
| Mike | Feature film |
| 1982
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Khan's Crewman #1 (uncredited role) | Feature film |
| 1983
| The Prey | Joel | Feature film |
| 1985
| The Wait of the World | Unknown role | Direct-to-video film |
| rowspan=3| 1988
| Travis Abilene | Feature film |
| Magdalene
| Father Joseph Mohr | Feature film |
| To Die For
| Tom | Feature film |
| 1991
| Son of Darkness: To Die For II | Tom | Feature film |
| 1992
| Foxy Lady | Mark Derrick | Feature film |
| 1994
| Tryst | Parkinson | Feature film |
| 1996
| Blue Devil, Blue Devil | Unknown role | Feature film |
| rowspan=2| 1999
| The SETI Group Driver | Feature film |
| The Joyriders
| Highway patrolman | Feature film |
| 2012
| Noah | Punda (voice only) | Feature film |
| 2014
| Richard Duncannon | Direct-to-video film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1974
| McCloud | Don | Episode: "The 42nd Street Cavalry" |
| 1979
| Hollister | Episode: "The Birth of a Titan" |
| 1980
| Young Man | Episode: "Prometheus: Part II" |
| 1981
| Reporter #2 | Television movie (ABC) |
| 1983-1986
| Jimmy Lee Holt |Daytime serial (contract role @ 212 episodes) |
| rowspan=2| 1987
| Brett Cassidy | Episode: "The Therapist" |
| You Are the Jury
| James Finnigan | Episode: "The State of Oregon vs. Stanley Manning" |
| 1989
| Todd Masters | Episode: "Luck Be a Lady: Part 1" |
| 1989-1990
| Mac Blake | Daytime serial (recurring role @ 123 episodes) |
| 1990
| The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage | Kirk Powers | Television movie (ABC) |
| 1993
| Dick Plasmeyer | Episode: "Soul Kiss" |
| 1996
| unknown role | Episode: "52 Car Pick-Up" |
| 1997
| Taylor | Television movie (Showtime/The Movie Channel) |
| 2001
| Epoch | Colonel Tell | Television movie (Sci Fi Channel) |
| 2017
| Enchanted Christmas | Oliver | Television movie (The Hallmark Channel) |
References
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Further reading
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 298-299.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0094047}}
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Category:American male child actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male soap opera actors
Category:Israeli emigrants to the United States
Category:Jewish Israeli actors
Category:Israeli male child actors
Category:Israeli male film actors
Category:Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent