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Jan 26, 1893 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Died on 17 May 1974 (aged 81)
American actor
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About Ben Bard
- Ben Bard (January 26, 1893 – May 17, 1974) was an American movie actor, stage actor, and acting teacher.
- With comedian Jack Pearl, Bard worked in a comedy duo in vaudeville.In 1926, Bard, Pearl, and Sascha Beaumont appeared in a short film made in Lee DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- He had a small role in The Bat Whispers (1930).
- Later in the decade, he ran a leading Hollywood acting school, Ben Bard Drama. Bard was recruited to be a leading man at Fox Film Corporation.
- However, he was typecast as a "Suave Heavy"—a smooth-talking, well-dressed fellow with a dark side.
- An example of this type is his portrayal of "Mr.
- Brun" in The Seventh Victim (1943).
- Also in 1943, Bard appeared in two other Val Lewton-produced horror films: The Leopard Man, as Robles, the Police Chief, and The Ghost Ship, as First Officer Bowns. Bard became the head of the New Talent Department at Twentieth-Century-Fox in September 1956, eventually resigning in August 1959.
- He re-opened his school, Ben Bard Drama, in 1960.
