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Ward Bond (1903-1960) was an American supporting actor. Bond appeared in more than 200 films. His acting career spanned 4 decades. His IMDb page shows 276 acting credits from 1928 to 1961. This page will rank Ward Bond movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Drivel Part of the Page: We were able to find box office grosses on almost 130 of his movies. That actually knocks Samuel L. Jackson off the top spot when looking at most movies for a particular actor or actress.
Ward Bond Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ward Bond Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Ward Bond movie received.
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Ward Bond’s Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ward Bond
1. Wardell Edwin Bond was born in Benkelman in Dundy County, Nebraska in 1906.
2. Ward Bond was a starting lineman on USC’s (University of Southern California) first national championship team in 1928. One of his football teammates was somebody called Marion Morrison…better known as John Wayne.
3. The entire Southern Cal team was hired to appear in Salute (1929), a football film directed by John Ford. During the filming of this movie, Bond and John Wayne befriended Ford, and appeared in many of Ford’s later films.
4. Ward Bond would work with John Ford on 26 films.
5. On a hunting trip, Ward Bond was accidentally shot by John Wayne. Bond left Wayne the shotgun in his will.
6. The muppet “Bert” on Sesame Street (1969) is rumored to be named after Bond’s character (Bert the cop) in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
7. Ward Bond appears in the most films (seven) of the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest American Movies: It Happened One Night (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1941), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
8. On July 17, 1944, Ward Bond was leaving the Hollywood premiere of Since You Went Away (1944) and was attempting to cross the street when he was struck by an auto. His left leg was so severely fractured that physicians wanted to amputate, but Bond refused to allow it, and although it took several months, Bond recovered. He limped in his next few films, and was still recovering, using a cane, when he served as best man at the wedding of John Wayne to his second wife in January 1946.
8. Although his career was cut short by his premature death in 1960 at age 57, Ward Bond was one of the most prolific of Hollywood’s actors over a period of 30 years. He regularly appeared in 10 to 20 films per year, with the record year for him being 1935, when he acted in 30 movies.
10. Ward Bond appeared in 13 films that were nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Picture.
Check out Ward Bond’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
According to my Letterbox’d account I have seen 77 Ward Bond movies.
The HIGHEST ranked movie I have seen is Gond With the Wind.
The highest ranked I have NOT seen is The Long Grey Line.
The LOWEST ranked movie I have seen is I Found Stella Parish.
BEcause of the large number of Ward Bond movies I have seen, I will only list my favourites
Favourite Ward Bond Movies:
Gone With the Wind
It Happened One Night
The Maltese Falcon
It’s A Wonderful Life
Mr. Roberts
You Can’t Take It With You
After the Thin Man
Arrowsmith
My Darling Clementine
Dodge City
Topper
A Guy Named Joe
Lady For a Day
Bringing Up Baby
‘G’ Man
Manpower
Virginia City
They Made Me a Criminal
On Dangerous Ground
Only the Valiant
Alias Jesse James
With the new top 1000 list and such stalwarts making it for the first time such as Tommy Chong, Tia Carrera, and Haley Joel Osmont , poor Ward doesn’t again. It’s like Jim Kaat or Minnie Minoso for the Baseball Hall of Fame making it after so many years, maybe some day Ward. Hey Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds haven’t made it yet (but Haley does). I guess these questions are for the guys above our pay grade.
Ward is the # 21 most connected actor of the 1930’s and the # 54 most connected of the 1940’s.
These are the actors on the 2021 list Ward appeared with.
16 ERNEST BORGNINE Johnny Guitar (1954)
42 ANTHONY QUINN Blowing Wild (1953)
42 ANTHONY QUINN City for Conquest (1940)
42 ANTHONY QUINN Union Pacific (1939)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Frontier Marshal (1939)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Johnny Guitar (1954)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Of Human Hearts (1938)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Submarine Patrol (1938)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Swamp Water (1941)
89 JOHN CARRADINE The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
89 JOHN CARRADINE White Fang (1936)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Death on the Diamond (1934)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
118 MARC LAWRENCE ‘G’ Men (1935)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Go Into Your Dance (1935)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Lady for a Day (1933)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Little Big Shot (1935)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Strangers All (1935)
118 MARC LAWRENCE The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
118 MARC LAWRENCE Unconquered (1947)
140 HENRY FONDA Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
140 HENRY FONDA Fort Apache (1948)
140 HENRY FONDA Mister Roberts (1955)
140 HENRY FONDA My Darling Clementine (1946)
140 HENRY FONDA The Fugitive (1947)
140 HENRY FONDA The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
140 HENRY FONDA You Only Live Once (1937)
140 HENRY FONDA Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
153 MICKEY ROONEY Chained (1934)
153 MICKEY ROONEY Death on the Diamond (1934)
237 JEFF COREY Joan of Arc (1948)
237 JEFF COREY Only the Valiant (1951)
237 JEFF COREY Singing Guns (1950)
237 JEFF COREY Unconquered (1947)
324 JACK LEMMON Mister Roberts (1955)
342 JOSE FERRER Joan of Arc (1948)
353 GREGORY PECK Only the Valiant (1951)
388 BEN JOHNSON 3 Godfathers (1948)
388 BEN JOHNSON Tall in the Saddle (1944)
388 BEN JOHNSON Wagon Master (1950)
432 EDDIE ALBERT Unconquered (1947)
435 CESAR ROMERO Frontier Marshal (1939)
435 CESAR ROMERO Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
435 CESAR ROMERO The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)
438 ANGIE DICKINSON Rio Bravo (1959)
443 MEL FERRER The Fugitive (1947)
455 LLOYD BRIDGES Canyon Passage (1946)
455 LLOYD BRIDGES Unconquered (1947)
474 LIONEL STANDER Professor Beware (1938)
474 LIONEL STANDER They Met in a Taxi (1936)
482 GLENN FORD Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
484 AKIM TAMIROFF Black Fury (1935)
484 AKIM TAMIROFF Chained (1934)
484 AKIM TAMIROFF Go Into Your Dance (1935)
484 AKIM TAMIROFF The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
484 AKIM TAMIROFF Union Pacific (1939)
510 JOHN WAYNE 3 Godfathers (1948)
510 JOHN WAYNE A Man Betrayed (1941)
510 JOHN WAYNE Born Reckless (1930)
510 JOHN WAYNE College Coach (1933)
510 JOHN WAYNE Conflict (1936)
510 JOHN WAYNE Dakota (1945)
510 JOHN WAYNE Fort Apache (1948)
510 JOHN WAYNE Hondo (1953)
510 JOHN WAYNE Maker of Men (1931)
510 JOHN WAYNE Operation Pacific (1951)
510 JOHN WAYNE Rio Bravo (1959)
510 JOHN WAYNE Salute (1929)
510 JOHN WAYNE Tall in the Saddle (1944)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Big Trail (1930)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Long Voyage Home (1940)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Quiet Man (1952)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Searchers (1956)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
510 JOHN WAYNE The Wings of Eagles (1957)
510 JOHN WAYNE They Were Expendable (1945)
510 JOHN WAYNE Three Girls Lost (1931)
510 JOHN WAYNE Words and Music (1929)
528 VIVECA LINDFORS The Halliday Brand (1957)
533 RAY MILLAND A Man Alone (1955)
533 RAY MILLAND Blonde Crazy (1931)
536 STUART WHITMAN China Doll (1958)
576 ROBERT STACK Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
576 ROBERT STACK The Mortal Storm (1940)
590 DUB TAYLOR Riding High (1950)
590 DUB TAYLOR You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
593 JOHN IRELAND Joan of Arc (1948)
593 JOHN IRELAND My Darling Clementine (1946)
632 SLIM PICKENS Thunderbirds (1952)
674 ROYAL DANO Johnny Guitar (1954)
702 PAUL FIX After the Thin Man (1936)
702 PAUL FIX Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
702 PAUL FIX Dakota (1945)
702 PAUL FIX Hitler–Dead or Alive (1942)
702 PAUL FIX Hondo (1953)
702 PAUL FIX Johnny Guitar (1954)
702 PAUL FIX Mr. Moto’s Gamble (1938)
702 PAUL FIX Sob Sister (1931)
702 PAUL FIX Tall in the Saddle (1944)
702 PAUL FIX The Crimson Trail (1935)
702 PAUL FIX The Game That Kills (1937)
702 PAUL FIX The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
702 PAUL FIX Three Girls Lost (1931)
702 PAUL FIX Virginia City (1940)
712 GEORGE SANDERS Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
712 GEORGE SANDERS The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
712 GEORGE SANDERS They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
737 KEYE LUKE Mr. Moto’s Gamble (1938)
737 KEYE LUKE Murder in the Fleet (1935)
756 LEE MARVIN Pillars of the Sky (1956)
795 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Sin Town (1942)
795 BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Time of Your Life (1948)
810 ROBERT RYAN On Dangerous Ground (1952)
812 LEE VAN CLEEF A Man Alone (1955)
812 LEE VAN CLEEF Gypsy Colt (1954)
862 RALPH BELLAMY Air Mail (1932)
925 JACK ELAM The Moonlighter (1953)
926 MIKE MAZURKI Alias Jesse James (1959)
926 MIKE MAZURKI Black Fury (1935)
926 MIKE MAZURKI Dakota (1945)
926 MIKE MAZURKI Gentleman Jim (1942)
926 MIKE MAZURKI Unconquered (1947)
933 CAMERON MITCHELL They Were Expendable (1945)
Some of these guys get monotonous (who is this John Wayne).
Ward passed in 1960 and yet appeared with 61 Oscar winners (how do you suppose he did that). This list is even more monotonous.
ALICE BRADY Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
ANNE BAXTER Swamp Water (1941)
ANNE REVERE THE FALCON TAKES OVER (1942)
ANNE REVERE THE GREAT MISSOURI RAID (1951)
ANTHONY QUINN Blowing Wild (1953)
ANTHONY QUINN City for Conquest (1940)
ANTHONY QUINN Union Pacific (1939)
BARRY FITZGERALD Bringing Up Baby (1938)
BARRY FITZGERALD The Long Voyage Home (1940)
BARRY FITZGERALD The Quiet Man (1952)
BEN JOHNSON 3 Godfathers (1948)
BEN JOHNSON Tall in the Saddle (1944)
BEN JOHNSON Wagon Master (1950)
BING CROSBY Alias Jesse James (1959)
BING CROSBY Riding High (1950)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Sin Town (1942)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Time of Your Life (1948)
CHARLES COBURN Made for Each Other (1939)
CHARLES COBURN Of Human Hearts (1938)
CLAIRE TREVOR Dead End (1937)
CLAIRE TREVOR The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
CLARK GABLE Chained (1934)
CLARK GABLE Gone with the Wind (1939)
CLARK GABLE It Happened One Night (1934)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT It Happened One Night (1934)
DEAN JAGGER Escape by Night (1937)
DONALD CRISP CITY FOR CONQUEST (1940)
DONALD CRISP The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
DONALD CRISP THE LONG GRAY LINE (1955)
DONALD CRISP THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939)
DONNA REED It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
DOROTHY MALONE Pillars of the Sky (1956)
ERNEST BORGNINE Johnny Guitar (1954)
FAY BAINTER THE SOLDIER AND THE LADY (1937)
FREDRIC MARCH The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
GARY COOPER Alias Jesse James (1959)
GARY COOPER Blowing Wild (1953)
GARY COOPER Sergeant York (1941)
GARY COOPER The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
GARY COOPER Unconquered (1947)
GEORGE SANDERS Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
GEORGE SANDERS The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
GEORGE SANDERS They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
GERALDINE PAGE Hondo (1953)
GIG YOUNG Only the Valiant (1951)
GIG YOUNG Sergeant York (1941)
GLORIA GRAHAME It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
GREGORY PECK Only the Valiant (1951)
HATTIE MCDANIEL GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
HATTIE MCDANIEL HIGH TENSION (1936)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THE BRIDE WALKS OUT (1936)
HATTIE MCDANIEL WE’RE ONLY HUMAN (1935)
HELEN HAYES Arrowsmith (1931)
HENRY FONDA Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
HENRY FONDA Fort Apache (1948)
HENRY FONDA Mister Roberts (1955)
HENRY FONDA My Darling Clementine (1946)
HENRY FONDA The Fugitive (1947)
HENRY FONDA The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
HENRY FONDA You Only Live Once (1937)
HENRY FONDA Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
HUMPHREY BOGART Dead End (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
HUMPHREY BOGART The Maltese Falcon (1941)
HUMPHREY BOGART The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
HUMPHREY BOGART Up the River (1930)
HUMPHREY BOGART Virginia City (1940)
INGRID BERGMAN Joan of Arc (1948)
JACK LEMMON Mister Roberts (1955)
JAMES CAGNEY Blonde Crazy (1931)
JAMES CAGNEY City for Conquest (1940)
JAMES CAGNEY Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)
JAMES CAGNEY ‘G’ Men (1935)
JAMES CAGNEY Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
JAMES CAGNEY Mister Roberts (1955)
JAMES CAGNEY The Doorway to Hell (1930)
JAMES CAGNEY The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
JAMES CAGNEY The Time of Your Life (1948)
JAMES DUNN Over the Hill (1931)
JAMES DUNN Sob Sister (1931)
JAMES STEWART After the Thin Man (1936)
JAMES STEWART It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
JAMES STEWART Made for Each Other (1939)
JAMES STEWART The Mortal Storm (1940)
JAMES STEWART You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
JANE DARWELL 3 Godfathers (1948)
JANE DARWELL Gone with the Wind (1939)
JANE DARWELL My Darling Clementine (1946)
JANE DARWELL The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
JANE DARWELL The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
JANE DARWELL The Singing Marine (1937)
JANE DARWELL Wagon Master (1950)
JANE DARWELL We’re Only Human (1935)
JANE DARWELL White Fang (1936)
JANE WYMAN The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
JANE WYMAN The Singing Marine (1937)
JOAN CRAWFORD Chained (1934)
JOAN CRAWFORD Johnny Guitar (1954)
JOAN FONTAINE Music for Madame (1937)
JOHN WAYNE 3 Godfathers (1948)
JOHN WAYNE A Man Betrayed (1941)
JOHN WAYNE Born Reckless (1930)
JOHN WAYNE College Coach (1933)
JOHN WAYNE Conflict (1936)
JOHN WAYNE Dakota (1945)
JOHN WAYNE Fort Apache (1948)
JOHN WAYNE Hondo (1953)
JOHN WAYNE Maker of Men (1931)
JOHN WAYNE Operation Pacific (1951)
JOHN WAYNE Rio Bravo (1959)
JOHN WAYNE Salute (1929)
JOHN WAYNE Tall in the Saddle (1944)
JOHN WAYNE The Big Trail (1930)
JOHN WAYNE The Long Voyage Home (1940)
JOHN WAYNE The Quiet Man (1952)
JOHN WAYNE The Searchers (1956)
JOHN WAYNE The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
JOHN WAYNE The Wings of Eagles (1957)
JOHN WAYNE They Were Expendable (1945)
JOHN WAYNE Three Girls Lost (1931)
JOHN WAYNE Words and Music (1929)
JOSE FERRER Joan of Arc (1948)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Bringing Up Baby (1938)
KATY JURADO Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
LEE MARVIN Pillars of the Sky (1956)
LIONEL BARRYMORE A Guy Named Joe (1943)
LIONEL BARRYMORE It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
LIONEL BARRYMORE You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
LORETTA YOUNG Heroes for Sale (1933)
LORETTA YOUNG Three Girls Lost (1931)
MARY ASTOR The Maltese Falcon (1941)
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE JOHNNY GUITAR (1954)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Dodge City (1939)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Gone with the Wind (1939)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Santa Fe Trail (1940)
PATRICIA NEAL Operation Pacific (1951)
PAUL LUKAS Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
PAUL LUKAS I Found Stella Parish (1935)
PAUL MUNI Black Fury (1935)
RAY MILLAND A Man Alone (1955)
RAY MILLAND Blonde Crazy (1931)
RONALD COLMAN Arrowsmith (1931)
SPENCER TRACY A Guy Named Joe (1943)
SPENCER TRACY Quick Millions (1931)
SPENCER TRACY They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
SPENCER TRACY Up the River (1930)
SUSAN HAYWARD Canyon Passage (1946)
SUSAN HAYWARD Tap Roots (1948)
SUSAN HAYWARD The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
THOMAS MITCHELL GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
THOMAS MITCHELL IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
THOMAS MITCHELL THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940)
VAN HEFLIN Santa Fe Trail (1940)
VAN HEFLIN Tap Roots (1948)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Fort Apache (1948)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN The Quiet Man (1952)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Under Pressure (1935)
VIVIEN LEIGH Gone with the Wind (1939)
WALLACE BEERY Flesh (1932)
WALTER BRENNAN Dakota (1945)
WALTER BRENNAN Death on the Diamond (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN Home in Indiana (1944)
WALTER BRENNAN I’ll Tell the World (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN My Darling Clementine (1946)
WALTER BRENNAN Rio Bravo (1959)
WALTER BRENNAN Sergeant York (1941)
WALTER BRENNAN Singing Guns (1950)
WALTER BRENNAN Slightly Dangerous (1943)
WALTER BRENNAN Swamp Water (1941)
WALTER BRENNAN The Poor Rich (1934)
WALTER HUSTON Of Human Hearts (1938)
WALTER HUSTON Swamp Water (1941)
WALTER HUSTON The Maltese Falcon (1941)
WARNER BAXTER Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
Ward appeared in 33 films with Eddy Chandler, 31 with Lee Phelps, 30 with Harry Strang, 27 with Jack Pennick and 27 with Jack Sullivan , 24 with Irving Bacon and Frank O’Connor and 23 with Harry Tenbrook. Then comes John Wayne.
Great UMR Page
Whoa Mr. Bond, over a hundred films, many of them top classics, I’m impressed.
I’ve seen 42 of the 127 films on the chart, probably more if I could remember them.
Lots of favorites including – Gone With the Wind, The Seachers, The Quiet Man, It’s a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Maltese Falcon, Rio Bravo, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, Mister Roberts, Bringing Up Baby and Dodge City.
Gone With the Wind tops the box office and UMR charts, and It’s a Wonderful Life no.1 in the critics chart, a lot of strong contenders for the top spot on there.
Good work Bruce. Vote Up!
In my world he will always be the Wagon Master!!! Great Page!!!