| Ivan Bonar | |
| Birth Name: | Ivan Eugene Bonar |
| Birth Date: | October 31, 1924 |
| Birth Place: | New London, Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actor, Voice Actor/Artist |
| Years Active: | 1958 - 1988 |
Ivan Eugene Bonar (October 31, 1924 - December 8, 1988) was an American character actor whose career in Hollywood, in films and television, spanned four decades, from the mid 1950s into the 1980s.
A vaunted character actor, Bonar appeared in the play The Country Girl.[1] He also made appearances in many films, such as Night of the Quarter Moon (1959), Air Patrol and Womanhunt (1962), Gable and Lombard (1976), MacArthur (1977), where he played U.S. Army Lt. General Richard K. Sutherland, Same Time Next Year (1978, with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn) and the 1983 made-for-TV movie as Hollywood film director Howard Hawks.[2] [3]
Bonar is perhaps better known for his career in television, as he guest starred in episodes of many hit TV series such as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, McHale's Navy, Perry Mason, Dennis the Menace, the ABC-TV version of My Three Sons, I Dream of Jeannie, where he served as the voice of the announcer in one episode, The Partridge Family, and the NBC-TV series Ironside, amongst many other appearances which continued into the 1980s, on such shows as Dallas, Dynasty, and Hart to Hart. From 1966 to 1971, and then 1973 to 1979, he had a recurring role as Chase Murdock on the ABC-TV daytime soap opera series General Hospital. In 1973, he appeared in Hawkins: Death and the Maiden, a TV movie that served as the pilot for the series Hawkins starring James Stewart.
Bonar died in 1988 in Los Angeles.[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Night of the Quarter Moon | Photographer | Uncredited | |
| 1962 | Womanhunt | Jacobs | ||
| 1962 | Air Patrol | Oliver Dunning | ||
| 1963 | Police Nurse | Dr. C. F. Sears | ||
| 1965 | Love and Kisses | Assemblyman Potter | ||
| 1967 | Hotel | Silverstein | Uncredited | |
| 1967 | Countdown | Nogrady | Uncredited | |
| 1968 | Maryjane | Roger Campbell | ||
| 1968 | Project X | Col. Cowen | ||
| 1976 | Gable and Lombard | Brogan | ||
| 1977 | MacArthur | General Sutherland | ||
| 1978 | Same Time Next Year | Chalmers | ||
| 1980 | Getting Wasted | Dr. Carson | ||
| 1982 | Patterson | |||
| 1982 | Waltz Across Texas | A.J. Profit | ||
| 1983 | Over Here, Mr. President | |||
| 1989 | Animal Behavior | Dr. Ridley | (final film role) |