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Title: Tommy Bond, 1926-2005 Post by: dto on September 25, 2005, 04:21:47 PM Actor Tommy Bond passed away on September 24 due to complications from heart disease. He was 79.
Better known as the bully "Butch" in the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" comedies, he also played Jimmy Olsen in two Superman movie serials (1946 and 1948). After graduating from college in 1951, Tommy Bond quit acting and went into television directing and broadcasting work in the Southern California area before retiring in 1991. Incidentally, Tommy Bond turned down the chance to reprise his role as Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman" television series (1952). His wife Pauline (a former Miss California) also turned down the role of Miss Kitty in the 1955 "Gunsmoke" TV series. (Note: news reports credit Tommy Bond with Superman movie serials filmed in 1946 and 1948, but that seems to be at odds with http://superman.nu/fos/thescreen/ -- also, "Atom Man vs. Superman" was in 1950.) Title: Re: Tommy Bond, 1926-2005 Post by: Super Monkey on September 25, 2005, 04:29:13 PM (http://www.sergioleone.net/ds-1.jpg)(http://www.nndb.com/people/763/000092487/bond-sm.jpg)
RIP :cry: Title: Re: Tommy Bond, 1926-2005 Post by: Great Rao on September 25, 2005, 04:53:04 PM Tommy Bond was fantastic as Jimmy Olsen and he will be sorely missed.
I don't know if his homepage (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Picture/3158/DarnRight.html) is still active or not, but there is an archive of it here (http://web.archive.org/web/20021105205516/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Picture/3158/DarnRight.html). :s: |