David Bond: Movies & Box Office

David Bond (October 16, 1914 – August 24, 1989) was an American actor whose screen career belonged to the classic Hollywood era. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he appeared in more than thirty films between 1936 and 1966, building a career as a supporting performer across more than three decades of American cinema. The name also appears in the supplied disambiguation list for several people of the same name: a British sailor and Olympic champion, a British sports journalist, a British fashion designer and historian, and David P. Bond, a journalist, historian and author. The American actor is the relevant David Bond for a movie database, and The Stranger is the most immediately recognizable screen credit distinguishing him from those other people. His dates place him among performers who worked through the mature studio system, the Second World War years and the postwar expansion of crime dramas and film noir. His long working life also spanned significant changes in audience tastes, production practices and the relationship between feature films and other popular media.

Bond's association with The Stranger provides the clearest cinematic context for his career. The 1946 film was directed by Orson Welles and starred Edward G. Robinson as Franz Kindler, a respected Connecticut teacher whose concealed past as a Nazi war criminal places him at the center of a story about guilt, suspicion and moral judgment. Its controlled suspense, ensemble acting and darker view of an outwardly respectable community helped define the film noir tradition of the period. Although the short biographical summary does not identify Bond's character or describe his individual scenes, his presence in this cast firmly connects his name with one of the era's most discussed independent productions. Across a career active from 1936 to 1966, Bond became a recognizable figure in ensemble films rather than a performer associated with only one isolated role. For a film database, this means that The Stranger should serve as an important reference point, while his wider filmography provides the broader picture of a durable working actor. Bond died in Santa Monica, California, on August 24, 1989, aged 74. No spouse or number of children is established by the supplied entry, so those fields are left blank and set to zero rather than populated with speculation.