Ward Bond

Acting

Ward Bond

Born 1903-04-09 Benkelman, Nebraska, USA 273 films

Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than 200 films, as well as in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1961. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert the cop in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's The Searchers (1956).

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Filmography

273 films
A Man Betrayed poster

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politic…

A Man Betrayed

★ 5.5 1941

Tobacco Road poster

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors…

Tobacco Road

★ 6.8 1941

Santa Fe Trail poster

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart,…

Santa Fe Trail

★ 5.8 1940

Sailor's Lady poster

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whos…

Sailor's Lady

★ 6.5 1940

Virginia City poster

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in…

Virginia City

★ 6.3 1940