Derek Bond

Derek William Douglas Bond MC (26 January 1920 – 15 October 2006) was a popular British actor.

Derek Bond was born 26 January 1920 in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, London.[1]

He enjoyed a varied film, stage and television career, which began in 1938 with experience with the Finchley Amateur Dramatic Society. His conventional good looks secured him a number of dramatic and light comedy roles. He made a lasting impression in the title role of the 1947 Ealing Studios production of Nicholas Nickleby.

He saw active service with the Grenadier Guards in North Africa during the Second World War, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. He spent the last few months of the war in a Bavarian POW camp.

He was President of the Actors' Union Equity for a tempestuous period during the 1980s.

He was married three times. He died 15 October 2006, in London, and is survived by his third wife Annie, a son, a daughter and a stepson.

Selected filmography

• The Captive Heart (1946)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1947) (title role)
• The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
• Bond Street (1948)
• Scott of the Antarctic (1948) (as Oates)
• Christopher Columbus (1949)
• Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
• Svengali (1954)
• Wonderful Life (1964)
• Press for Time (1966)
• When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Selected television appearances

• Picture Parade (co-presenter)
• Cooperama (with Tommy Cooper)
• Callan

External links

• Derek Bond at the Internet Movie Database
• The Times Obituary

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