Steve Bond
Steve Bond | |
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| Born | Shlomo Goldberg April 22, 1953 |
| Spouse | Cindy Bond |
| Children | 2 (Including Ashlee) |
Steve Bond (born April 22, 1953) is an Israeli American television actor and model.
Biography
Shlomo Goldberg (later Steve Bond) was born in Haifa, Israel to a Romania-born mother and a Hungary-born father who immigrated to Israel.[1] He married in 1982 to his wife Cindy, and had a daughter, Ashlee Bond, now an American-Israeli Olympic show jumping rider who competes for Israel.[2]
Media career
He was a child actor who starred in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, a 1968 release. In 1975 Bond appeared in full frontal nude for a photo-spread published in the October issue of Playgirl magazine.[3] He relocated to America in the early 1980s after performing his mandatory military service for the state of Israel. 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 male stripper for Chippendales and appeared in one the calendars.[4] As a Chippendale dancer, he also appeared on the short lived 1982 show The Shape of Things.[4]
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).
In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year only. Later, he starred as a seductive but evil vampire in the movies To Die For (1989) and Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991).
1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough on to the Big Screen in his theatrical role as Travis Abilene in the Andy Sidaris classic Picasso Trigger.
References
- ^ King, Richard (1983-08-05). "Heartthrob: Bond is new soap opera idol". Kingman Daily Miner. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- ^ "Ringside Chat: Ashlee Bond On Young Horses, Family And Olympic Ambitions". The Chronicle of the Horse.
- ^ Boyes, Malcolm (May 14, 1984). "Who's the Hottest Name in Soaps Since Tony Geary? It's Shlomo Goldberg". People. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- ^ a b Reed, Jon-Michael (January 30, 1983). "GH's Steve Bond someone to watch". Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
Further reading
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 298-299.
External links
- Steve Bond at IMDb
- Steve Bond at AllMovie
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1953 births
- American male child actors
- American male film actors
- American male models
- American male soap opera actors
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli male child actors
- Israeli male film actors
- Israeli male models
- Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
- Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- Jewish male models
- Living people
- Models from Haifa
- Playgirl Men of the Month