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Gary Bond (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English film and television actor.

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 '''Gary Bond''' (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an [[England|English]] [[film]] and [[television]] [[actor]].
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-Bond was born in [[Alton, Hampshire]], [[England]], the son of [[Wales|Welsh]] parents from [[Cardiff]], and was raised in the town of [[Liss]].
-He was best known as a theatrical actor in his native [[United Kingdom]], but also played a number of roles in feature films and on television. Having appeared in ''[[Zulu (film)|Zulu]]'' in 1964, he went on to have cameos in ''[[Z Cars]]'', ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' and ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''.
-On stage, he most famously played Joseph in the 1972 London production of [[Tim Rice]] and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s musical ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''. Later, he succeeded [[David Essex]] as [[Che Guevara]] in the London production of Rice and Lloyd Webber's ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'', initially opposite [[Elaine Paige]] and subsequently, [[Marti Webb]].
-Bond was a longtime companion of [[Jeremy Brett]].<ref>Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2008 edition)</ref> He died of [[AIDS]] at the age of 55, exactly one month after Brett's death.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/arts-suffer-most-as-aids-rages-on-1583729.html</ref>
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