Philip Bond (actor)

Philip George William Bond (1 November 1934 – 17 January 2017) was a British actor. He was best known for playing Albert Frazer in 24 episodes of the 1970s BBC nautical drama The Onedin Line.

Philip Bond
Born	(1934-11-01)1 November 1934 Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Died	17 January 2017(2017-01-17) (aged 82) Madeira, Portugal
Alma mater	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2007
Spouse	Pat Sandys
Children	3, including Samantha Bond

Life and career

Bond was born at 189 Uxbridge Street in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to Welsh parents Matthew William Bond (1899–1951) and Blodwen (née John; 1900–1981); he had an older brother, Ifor John Bond (1929–1992), and a twin sister, Shirley.^[1] Bond's first acting experience was at Burton Boys' Grammar School, where he was a pupil, and in addition attended classes at the School of Speech and Drama in Burton.^[2] In 1952 he joined the Central School of Speech and Drama (then based in rooms in the Royal Albert Hall), where contemporaries included Delena Kidd, Heather Sears and Ian Hendry.^[3] In 1957, he played Sir John Marraby in the musical Zuleika, based on the novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

His first television role was in the series ITV Television Playhouse (1958–61). He later appeared in, among others, The Saint (1963), Doctor Who (in the serial "The Daleks"; 1964), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1968), The Avengers (1969), Z-Cars (1969–75), Only Fools and Horses (1985), Casualty (2007), and Midsomer Murders (2007).

Bond's film roles include Count Five and Die (1957), Orders to Kill (1958), Foxhole in Cairo (1960), I Want What I Want (1972), and Fever Pitch (1997). He was interviewed in the 2008 documentary The Cult of The Onedin Line.

He married the television producer Pat Sandys (1926–2000) in 1959. The marriage was later dissolved.^[4] With Sandys he is the father of actresses Abigail and Samantha Bond,^[5] and the film and TV journalist Matthew Bond. He lived in the village of Abergwynfi in his parents' native Wales.

He died at the age of 82 on 17 January 2017, while on holiday in Madeira.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1957	Count Five and Die	Piet van Wijt
1958	Orders to Kill	Nils	Uncredited
1960	Hell is a City	Headquarters PC	Uncredited
	Foxhole in Cairo	German Signals Sergeant
1972	I Want What I Want	Philip
1990	Destroying Angel	Desk Clerk
1997	Fever Pitch	Turnstile Operator

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956 1958 1961	ITV Television Playhouse	Leading Seaman Hillbrook Shefford Geoff Stone unknown	Season 1, episode 33: "Morning Departure" Season 3, episode 46: "Cornelius" Season 6: (2 episodes)
1956 1960 1964	ITV Play of the Week	Private McClelland Mark Elliott Tom Veryan	Season 2, episode 8: "Yellow Jack" Season 5, episode 36: "The Green Pack" Season 9, episode 53: "A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex"
1960	The Voodoo Factor	Dr. Tony Wilson	Season 1: (3 episodes)
	Theatre 70	unknown	Season 1, episode 10: "The Neighbour"
1961	Walk a Crooked Mile	Fergus Ryder	Season 1, episode 1
	Storyboard	Johnny	Season 1, episode 3: "The Middle Men"
	The Terrorists	2nd Lieutenant Hargreaves	TV movie
	BBC Sunday-Night Play	Phillip Barron Lieutenant Mueller	Season 2, episode 17: "The Intervener" Season 3, episode 12: "The Judge and His Hangman"
1963	Suspense	Colin Bannerman	Season 2, episode 10: "Project Survival"
	It Happened Like This	Bob Tennant	Season 1, episode 13: "The Black Monk"
	Sergeant Cork	George Melrose	Season 1, episode 9: "The Case of the Sleeping Coachman"
	The Saint	Kenneth Ripwell	Season 2, episode 5: "The Elusive Ellshaw"
	Maupassant	unknown	Season 1, episode 12: "Foolish Wives"
1964	Ann Veronica	Mr. Capes	3 episodes
	Doctor Who	Ganatus	5 episodes; serial: The Daleks
	A Choice of Coward	David Veryan	Season 1, episode 3: "The Vortex"
	The Old Wives' Tale	Gerald Scales	3 episodes
	The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling	Holden	Season 1, episode 21: "Without Benefit of Clergy
1965	Redcap	Captain Pelly	Season 1, episode 12: "A Place of Refuge"
	The Flying Swan	Conrad Stern	Season 1, episode 2: "Trial Plan"
	199 Park Lane	Tony Ashman	Season 1, episode 1: "The New Tenant"
	No Hiding Place	Julian Forrester Goldie Padgett	Season 7, episode 12: "Music for Murder" Season 8, episode 7: "Run, Johnny, Run"
1966	Armchair Theatre	unknown	Season 6, episode 27: "The Long Nightmare"
1967	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Arthur Norton	Season 1, episode 11: "The Black Doctor"
	The Revenue	White	Season 1, episode 8: "Sometimes There's a Bonus"
1967 1968	Man in a Suitcase	Luis Philip Oliver	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1968	Theatre 625	Stephen Stephens Andrei	Season 5: (3 episodes)
	BBC Play of the Month	Gilles de Rais	Season 4, episode 1: "St. Joan"
	Sherlock Holmes	Stapleton	Season 2: (2 episodes)
	The Jazz Age	Rupert	Season 1, episode 5: "Lily Christine"
	The Champions	Officer	Season 1, episode 4: "The Experiment"
1969	The Avengers	Lieutenant Roy Casper	Season 7, episode 14: "The Interrogators"
	Canterbury Tales	Knight	Season 1, episode 5: "The Wife of Bath's Tale/ The Clerk's Tale
1969– 1970 1975	The Main Chance	Peter Findon	Season 1: (5 episodes) Season 2: (6 episodes) Season 4, episode 4: "Payment by Result"
1969 1975	Z-Cars	Hatchett Dag Erikson	Season 6, episode 276: "Two for the Record: Part 2"
1970	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Peter Blakeman	Season 5, episode 14: "The Chief Whip Sends His Compliments"
1971	Doomwatch	Inspector Drew	Season 2, episode 10: "The Human Time Bomb"
	Jason King	Jaevert	Season 1, episode 11: "Flamingos Only Fly on Tuesdays"
1971– 1972	The Onedin Line	Albert Frazer	Season 1: (12 episodes) Season 2: (12 episodes)
1972	The Man Outside	unknown	Season 1, episode 11: "Doubts Are Traitors"
1974	Justice	Dr. Daniel Richards	Season 3, episode 3: "Duty of Care"
	Dial M for Murder	Simon Page	Season 1, episode 8: "Whatever's Peter Playing At?"
	Marked Personal	Ray Falk	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1974 1976	Warship	Commander Hilliard Loader	Season 2, episode 2: "Without Just Cause" Season 3, episode 11: "Divert with Despatch"
1975	Late Call	Timbo Egan	Season 1, episode 4
	The ITV Play	Major Buxton	Season 1, episode 4: "House in Regent Place: The Barrier"
1977	Crown Court	Clifford Grant	Season 6, episode 40: "Capers Among the Catacombs: Part 1"
	The Children of the New Forest	Ratcilffe	Season 1: (4 episodes)
1978	An Englishman's Castle	Inspector	Season 1: (2 episodes)
1979	Kids	Michael Gibbons	Season 1, episode 13: "David"
1980	The Sandbaggers	Sir Roderick Hives	Season 3, episode 3: "Unusual Approach"
	Shoestring	Keith	Season 2, episode 9: "Where Was I?"
1981	Hedda Gabler	Eilert Lovborg	TV movie
1984	Love and Marriage	Peterson	Season 1, episode 5: "Home Is the Sailor"
	Cold Warrior	Lord Stoneway	Season 1, episode 1: "Bright Sting"
1985	Travellers by Night	Hugo Schneider	Season 1: (2 episodes)
	Only Fools and Horses	Hendrik Van Kleefe	Season 4, episode 8: "To Hull and Back"
1986	The Oldest Goose in the Business	Max	TV movie
1987	Bergerac	Temperley	Season 5, episode 8: "Poison"
1992	Forever Green	Claud Taylor	Season 2, episode 6
1993	Lovejoy	Duncan Strong	Season 4, episode 6: "Second Fiddle"
1994	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Tyrrel Narrator	Season 2: (2 episodes)
1997	Our Boy	Magistrate	TV movie
2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Walter Bray	TV movie
2007	Midsomer Murders	Dr. Wyatt	Season 10, episode 8: "Death in a Chocolate Box"
2008	The Cult of The Onedin Line	Himself	TV documentary, (final television appearance)