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DOB
16 September 1926, Dallas, Texas, USA

DOD
24 September 2005, Northridge, California, USA (heart disease)

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5' 8"

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Bond's wife Polly Bond (aka Polly Ellis) turned down the role of "Miss Kitty" on the "Gunsmoke" (1955) TV series.
Bond turned down the role of Jimmy Olsen in the TV series "Adventures of Superman" (1952), starring George Reeves.
He was Butch in the Our Gang [us] comedies.
His wife Polly Bond (aka Polly Ellis) was a former Miss California.
After college in 1951, he quit acting and became an assistant director at Channel 11 in Los Angeles; in 1972, to escape the pollution and traffic of Los Angeles, moved with his family to the San Joaquin Valley where he worked at Channel 30 until he retired in 1990.
Co-hosted "The Little Rascals Theater" TV series with Dr. Jackie Lynn Taylor and Mathew ("Stymie") Beard. "The Little Rascals Theater" was syndicated in a few TV markets during the 1970s.
Despite his and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer's antogonistic relationship onscreen, the two were really the best of friends off camera.
Son Thomas R. Bond II is a producer and President/CEO of their family corporation, the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. [us] .
He recently hosted the new home video Rascals, The (2004) made by American Mutoscope & Biograph [us] .
His original role in the "Our Gang" comedies was as another member of the Gang. He was later recast as another character, the bully "Butch.".
Bond played "Jimmy Olsen" in the first "Superman" movies, 1946-1948 and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).
He went into the US Navy in 1946 during the end of World War II. He was suppose to fly with his squadron as company commander to Pennsacola, Florida for routine training missions, but became ill with a severe ear infection. Because of this, he was set back 10 companies and his squadron went onto Pennsacola where they took off never to be seen again. His company was the infamous "Flight 19" that flew into the Bermuda Triangle.
After being promised twice, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce "Walk of Fame" committee, turned down Mr. Bond for a star on Hollywood Blvd., after over 65 years in show business and 72 movies. The same year, three disc jockeys from local Los Angeles radio stations all received stars on the Walk of Fame.
The monument that stood at 1716 North Vine Street, commemorating the first movie made in Hollywood, made by Bonds company, the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. [us]. was stolen April, 2005. Bond felt because of the monument's size, it had to have been an "Inside Job". He was so upset, he swore that the company would never shoot any project in the district of Hollywood.
Bond was one of the first "Charter" members of the newly formed Screen Actors Guild [us] when he joined in 1938 at the age of 11 years old. His sponsor was Comedian/Actor [Eddie Cantor].
As a boy, was an actor in the movie Adventure in Washington (1941) along with friend, actor Gene Reynolds who later got behind the camera, being the producer of the hit CBS series _"M
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Bond worked closely with director George Sidney who started out as a director with the OurGang/Little Rascals comedies in the 1930s.