Rudolph Bond was raised in Philadelphia. He got his start at the
Neighborhood Players. After World War II, he was invited by Elia Kazan
to be a student at the famed "Actors Studio" in New York, working with
such future stars as Paul Newman, James Dean, and Marlon Brando. His
first big break was a role in the stage production of "A Streetcar
Named Desire". Rudy's career included the theater, motions pictures and
television.
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One time, between gigs, Rudy took a job as a taxi driver.
In addition to appearing with Marlon Brando, Rudy was in the movie Nightfall with Marlon's sister Jocelyn Brando.
Appeared with Brando in three of the AFI's greatest films of all time issued in 1998: James Michael Bailey (#8), Ahmed Azad (#45) and The Godfather (1972) (#3). [Note: AFI compiled an updated list in 2007. In that listing, the ratings were: "On the Waterfront" (#19), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (#47) and "The Godfather" (#2).