Thomas Bond

Background

About Thomas Bond

Bond started at the age of 13, as the youngest broadcaster in the nation then moving to television, gathering interviews with the famous, such as Kirk Douglas, Jack Lemmon, Pope John Paul II, among many others, exclusive news reports. 1979 he became News Director at Dellar Broadcasting at 15, and in 1980 hosted "Valley Mainstreet". Bond received national press in US Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Billboard magazine among many others. In 1980 he received a Commendation Resolution by the State of California for government and civic efforts, and nominated for an Emmy and Peabody Award and made "Youth Ambassador" of UNICEF. In 1983 he left journalism for film. Bond was heavily influenced by directors Mervyn LeRoy, and Frank Capra, and in 1984 filmed "Clingan's Junction" a Civil War picture, but in1985, it was destroyed in a fire. In 1987 Bond acquired the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, the oldest movie company in America established in 1895. In 1991, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company set out to produce his second feature film, Bob's Night Out (2004), In 1996 history repeated itself. His entire family was severely injured in a car accident that left his parents handicapped, and his Aunt with brain damage. Bond continued on with Biograph. Bond's company received a monument on Hollywood and Vine commemorating his company's film In Old California (1910) which was the first movie made in Hollywood. Now, Biograph is located in Beverly Hills, and produces and packages feature films and commercial productions and has recently opened a wireless entertainment division and a studio division. Bond's vision is for Biograph to become the "Haven" for independent film-makers who do not wish to be controlled by the big Hollywood corporate structure, and to truly make an artistic and ethical difference in the entertainment industry. Specialties: Motion picture production, producing, directing, crew, radio broadcasting.