Ward Bond

Ward Bond is the kind of actor I find endlessly satisfying because he's everywhere once you start looking. Over 200 films, and yet he never needed top billing to leave a mark. I love that his two most-remembered turns are small but unforgettable: Bert the cop in It's a Wonderful Life and Captain Clayton in The Searchers. Then he carried Wagon Train on television right up until his death in 1960. To me he's the definition of a character actor, the dependable face that makes a John Ford or Frank Capra picture feel lived-in. That Walk of Fame star feels well earned.

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Name (English)

Ward Bond

Name (Japanese)

ワード・ボンド

Reading

わーど・ぼんど

Born

April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960

Origin

Benkelman, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

character actor / film actor / television actor / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

High school

East High School

University

University of Southern California

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20Bond
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1280760

Tags

• Nebraska
• character actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.