| Steve Bond | |
| Birth Name: | Shlomo Goldberg |
| Birth Date: | 1953 4, mf=y |
| Birth Place: | Haifa, Israel |
| Spouse: | Cindy Bond |
| Children: | 2 (Including Olympic equestrian Ashlee Bond) |
Steve Bond (born Shlomo Goldberg on April 22, 1953) is an Israeli-American television actor and model.
Shlomo Goldberg (later Steve Bond) was born in Haifa, Israel, to a Romania-born mother and a Hungary-born father who immigrated to Israel.[1] In 1982 he married his wife Cindy; they have a daughter, Ashlee Bond, who is now an American-Israeli Olympic show jumping rider who competes for Israel.[2]
Bond made his film debut with a starring role in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, shot in 1965 but not released until 1968. In 1975, he appeared full-frontal nude for a photo-spread published in the October issue of Playgirl magazine.[3] He moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s. He became a daytime television actor on General Hospital, playing Jimmy Lee Holt from 1983 to 1987. In 1984, Bond posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster. In the early 1980s, he worked as male stripper for Chippendales and appeared in one of the calendars.[4] As a Chippendale dancer, he appeared on the 1982 show The Shape of Things.[4]
His early film credits included roles in Massacre at Central High (1976), H.O.T.S. (1979), Gas Pump Girls (1979), Witches' Brew (1980) and The Prey (1983).
1988 marked the year of Bond's breakthrough leading role as Travis Abilene in Picasso Trigger.
In 1989, he joined the cast of daytime drama Santa Barbara as Mack Blake where he stayed for one year. Later, he starred as a seductive, evil vampire in the movies To Die For (1989) and (1991).