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{{Short description|English actor and singer (1940–1995)}}
{{About|the actor|the similarly named singer|Gary U.S. Bonds}}
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'''Gary James Bond''' (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English actor and singer. He is known for originating the role of Joseph in [[Tim Rice]] and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s musical ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', his performances in several high-profile [[West End theatre|West End]] plays and musicals, and his portrayal of protagonist John Grant in the Australian film ''[[Wake in Fright]]'' (1971).
==Early life==
Bond was born in the village of [[Liss (England)|Liss]], [[Hampshire]],<ref name=independent>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gary-bond-1578043.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Derek | last=Granger | title=Obituary: Gary Bond | date=17 October 1995}}</ref> England. He was the first born child of his parents. He was born into a family in which the army was the destined career for any family member, with his father and numerous uncles being in the army. As a result, it was always assumed that he would follow in this tradition and was frequently persuaded by his family that this was his career path. Yet Bond from a young age had always harboured a love for acting.
He was educated in [[Churcher's College]] in Petersfield and later Portsmouth College of Technology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyforsale.com/gary-bond-autograph-resume-signed/dc309617|title=Gary Bond - Autograph Resume Signed {{!}} HistoryForSale Item 309617|website=HistoryForSale - Autographs, Collectibles & Memorabilia|language=en|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref> His father died in December 1956 when Bond was aged just 16, as a result, the young Bond was able to pursue his preferred path without any interference by family members.<ref name=":0" /> After leaving education he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa for a gap year.
However, he soon returned to England, after he won a scholarship at London's prestigious [[Central School of Speech & Drama]]. During his three years there, he gained several awards, including the Margaret Rawlings Cup, shared with [[Angela Morant]], and the [[Elsie Fogerty]] Prize for the Best Individual Performance by a Man.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/facts-and-faq.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060114/http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/facts-and-faq.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-09-21|title=Facts and FAQs - The Wonderful World of Gary Bond|date=2013-09-21|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
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==Career==
===Early career===
At the age of 23, Bond gained his first acting job with the [[Connaught Theatre]], Worthing.<ref name=independent/> His debut performance was in a play titled ''[[Not in the Book]]'' and was followed by ''[[Doctor in the House (play)|Doctor in the House]]'', where Bond appeared as Dr Simon Sparrow.<ref name=":0" />
In 1962, he made his big break when he was cast in the role of Pip in the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]]'s production of [[Arnold Wesker]]'s ''[[Chips with Everything]]''
In 1968, Bond was invited to join the [[Prospect Theatre Company]], where he, relishing the opportunity to appear in classical roles, appeared in numerous productions including, Sebastian in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', Sergius in Shaw's ''[[Arms and the Man]]'' and ''No Man's Land''.
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Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a song for Bond titled "Disillusion Me", which he recorded as a single.
In 1976, he joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]];,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/4e0/gary-bond|title=Gary Bond - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref> where he played Hevern in [[Maxim Gorky]]'s ''The Zykovs'' and Willy Oban in ''[[The Iceman Cometh]]''. He played opposite [[Ralph Richardson]] in ''Alice's Boys'' and in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''Tonight at Eight'', in which he co-starred with [[Millicent Martin]]. He also joined seasons at the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] and the [[Bristol Old Vic]], including a production of Old Flames which transferred to the [[Arts Theatre]]. He played Brutus in Julius
When [[David Essex]] planned to leave Rice and Lloyd Webber's musical ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'', they looked for someone to play the part of Che. After being introduced by Lloyd Webber, producer [[Hal Prince]] and Bond "hit it off famously and very soon Gary was cast as David Essex's takeover in ''Evita''." He succeeded him as [[Che Guevara]] in the 1978 London production, initially opposite [[Elaine Paige]]. However, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2018 memoirs, he recalls that, when performing eight shows a week, playing ''Evita'' became a strain for Elaine Paige: "Help came from Gary Bond. Had anybody thought of his friend [[Marti Webb]]? Marti, like Gary, was a veteran of stacks of West End musicals. They had both been in a show called ''On the Level'' which, although a flop, had a cast which spawned a bevy of West End musical talent."<ref>Andrew Lloyd Webber (2018) ''Andrew Lloyd Webber, Unmasked, A Memoir'', [[
He played Otto in [[Noël Coward|Noel Coward]]'s ''Design for Living'' in 1982, performed in ''State of Affairs'' in 1983, appeared opposite [[Keith Michell]] in ''The Baccarat Scandal'' 1988, and in 1992 was the Count in a revival of [[Jean Anouilh]]'s ''The Rehearsal''.<ref name=":0" />
In 1993, despite struggling with failing health after being diagnosed HIV positive, he achieved one final triumph in the theatre as George in ''[[Aspects of Love]]'', which toured the UK that same year before a short season at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] in London.▼
▲In 1993, despite struggling with failing health after being diagnosed as HIV positive, he achieved one final triumph in the theatre as George in ''[[Aspects of Love]]'', which toured the UK that same year before a short season at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] in London.<ref name=":0" />
===Films===
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===Television===
Bond had cameos in ''[[Z-Cars]]'', ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', ''[[The Main Chance]]'', ''[[Hart to Hart]]'' and a major role in “All the sad songs” - an episode of ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=27519|title=Gary Bond|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref>
==''Wake in Fright''==
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[[Anthony Buckley]], the film's editor, later said the producers "NLT and Group W pushed him as the 'new Peter O'Toole'". Also commenting that Bond was "affable, likeable and somewhat shy, but crew members found him diffident." Monica Dawkins, the film's make-up artist, remembered that "out of hours he was very nice but during shooting he kept himself apart, he wasn't comfortable around people".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2009/06/12/making-wake-fright-part-two|title=The Making of Wake in Fright (Part Two)|website=SBS Movies|date=12 June 2009|language=en|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
Bond started shooting in January 1970 in the mining town of [[Broken Hill, New South Wales]].
He dyed his hair blonde for the part; as a result comparisons were made between him and [[Peter O'Toole]].
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The [[Film premiere|world premiere]] of ''Wake in Fright'' (as ''Outback'') occurred on opening night of the [[1971 Cannes Film Festival]] on 13 May.<ref name="boxoffice 31 may">"One UA, 3 Columbia Films Are Exhibited at Cannes". ''[[BoxOffice (magazine)|BoxOffice]]''. 31 May 1971. E-2. "The Cannes Film Festival, which ended Thursday (27) got under way on 13 May with an opening night presentation of 'Outback,' a United Artists release which was the official Australian entry."</ref> Ted Kotcheff was nominated for a [[Golden Palm Award]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/dcc27a70-7f10-4520-ba66-d92df51c5ac5/year/1971.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Wake in Fright |access-date=13 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> The film opened commercially in France on 22 July 1971, Great Britain on 29 October 1971, Australia during the same month, and the United States on 20 February 1972.
The film was deemed lost for years, until a copy of it was rediscovered
==Personal life==
Within the theatrical profession, Bond was openly gay and from 1969 to 1976 was the partner of actor [[Jeremy Brett]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Manners|first1=Terry|title=The Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes: The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett|date=1997|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=978-1852276164}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mann|first1=William J.|author-link1=William J. Mann|title=Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger|date=2005|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0099451884|page=92|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zY57_2_UK7kC&
In [[Garry O'Connor (writer)|Garry O'Connor]]'s 2019 biography of [[Ian McKellen]], he mentions that the two were in a relationship early in both of their careers, but it came to an end in 1972 when Bond was about to open in ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/ian-mckellen-memoir-biography-garry-o-connor-john-humphrys-today-peter-pan-white-city-closing-early|title=In lieu of Ian McKellen's own memoirs, a new biography offers revelations|last=Brooks|first=Richard|date=2019-09-01|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-09-12|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
In the same biography, a former lover of Bond said that <blockquote>He was part of one of the first relatively out [gay] couples with Jeremy Brett, but theirs was an on-off liaison which lasted for years...Bond was irresistible, with an easy warmth of manner, wonderful humour and sometimes a wicked sense of fun. He was divine, lovely and wonderful in bed.<ref>Garry O'Connor (2019) ''Ian McKellen: The Biography'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London {{ISBN|978-1-4746-0851-0}}</ref></blockquote>
Agent [[David Graham (casting director)|David Graham]] mentions in his book ''Casting About: A Memoir'' that <blockquote>Had it been within my power to choose, Gary Bond would have become my life’s companion. When ''Chips with Everything'' was brought to New York [which was in 1963], he was among the original British cast that came with it. [[Ashley-Famous|Ashley-Steiner]] had been asked by his agent to represent him, and I was the lucky bloke assigned to look after him. Young,
From 1979, he lived with American artist and illustrator E.J. Taylor,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Strachan|first1=Alan|title=Gary Bond: Finer Aspects of Musicals|url=http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/guardian-obituary---gary-bond.html|access-date=21 December 2014|work=The Guardian|date=30 October 1995|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922010505/http://www.thewonderfulworldofgarybond.com/guardian-obituary---gary-bond.html|archive-date=22 September 2013}}</ref> following their initial meeting in Fire Island, New York, later moving to Barnes and then to Ealing, London.
==Death==
Bond died of [[AIDS]] related causes on 12 October 1995 in Ealing Hospital at the age of 55. He had been with his partner E.J. Taylor for 16 years, and he died exactly one month after Jeremy Brett
==Legacy==
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