Gary Bond

This article is about the actor. For the similarly named singer, see Gary U.S. Bonds.

Gary Bond
Born	Gary James Bond 7 February 1940(1940-02-07) Alton, Hampshire, England, UK
Died	12 October 1995(1995-10-12) (aged 55) Ealing, England, UK
Cause of death	AIDS
Years active	1964–1990

Gary Bond (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English film and television actor.

Biography

Bond was born in Liss, Hampshire,^{[citation needed]} England.

He was best known as a theatrical actor in his native England, but also played a number of roles in feature films and on television. Having appeared in Zulu in 1964, he went on to star as Pip in the 1967 television production of Great Expectation and also in The Main Chance. He played Antonio in BBC Television's 1972 production of The Duchess of Malfi. Bond also had cameos in Z-Cars, The Avengers, Hart to Hart and Bergerac. He also starred in the classic Australian film Wake in Fright, filmed in 1970 and released the following year.

On stage, he most famously played Joseph in the 1972 London production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Later, he succeeded David Essex as Che Guevara in the London production of Rice and Lloyd Webber's Evita, initially opposite Elaine Paige and, subsequently, Marti Webb.

Personal Life

Bond was the companion of actor Jeremy Brett from 1969 to 1976. He died of AIDS at the age of 55, exactly one month after Brett's death.

American artist and illustrator E.J. Taylor was Bond's long-term partner from 1979 to 1995. Bond and Taylor lived together, first in Barnes and then in Ealing, London, following their initial meeting in Fire Island, New York, in 1979.

External links

• Gary Bond at the Internet Movie Database