Steve Bond
Steve Bond | |
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| Born | Shlomo Goldberg April 22, 1953 |
| Spouse | Cindy Bond |
| Children | 2 (Including Olympic equestrian Ashlee Bond) |
Steve Bond (born Shlomo Goldberg on April 22, 1953) is an Israeli-American television actor and model.
Biography
[edit]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] In 1982 he married his wife Cindy; they have a daughter, Ashlee Bond, who is now an American-Israeli Olympic show jumping rider who competes for Israel.[2]
Media career
[edit]Bond made his film debut with a starring role in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, shot in 1965 but not released until 1968. In 1975, he appeared full-frontal nude for a photo-spread published in the October issue of Playgirl magazine.[3] He moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s. 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 of the calendars.[4] As a Chippendale dancer, he appeared on the 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).
1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough leading role as Travis Abilene in Picasso Trigger.
In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year. Later, he starred as a seductive, evil vampire in the movies To Die For (1989) and Son of Darkness: To Die For II (1991).
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 298-299.
External links
[edit]- Steve Bond at IMDb
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1953 births
- Living people
- American male child actors
- American male film actors
- American male models
- American male soap opera actors
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- Jewish Israeli actors
- 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
- Models from Haifa
- Playgirl Men of the Month