Link to the Playgirl photos
The October 1975 issue of Playgirl featured a layout of model/actor Steve Bond. They quickly became the most famous n*de photos in the world (not counting those of Christopher George)
Not because of his size beneath the equator, though he was huge.
Because of the contrast.
The last time anyone had seen Steve Bond, the 14-year old Israeli actor, born Schlomo Goldberg, was making his screen debut, in a 1968 Tarzan movie starring Mike Henry.
Unfortunately, posing in your birthday suit was still controversial in 1975, and Steve found it difficult getting the attention of casting directors. During the next decade, he played some street toughs, some sexploitation studs, a Chippendales dancer, and a forest ranger investigating some teen murders (in The Prey, 1984).
Steve's last acting role listed on the IMDB is Enchanted Christmas, 2017, one of the usual Christmas romcoms, with a famous dancer getting back together with her ex as she restores a mountain cabin. He plays "Oliver."
Not because he was a man-mountain -- no bodybuilder, he had the tight, pleasantly muscled physique of a New Sensitive Man.
Not because of his size beneath the equator, though he was huge.
Because of the contrast.
The last time anyone had seen Steve Bond, the 14-year old Israeli actor, born Schlomo Goldberg, was making his screen debut, in a 1968 Tarzan movie starring Mike Henry.
Seven years makes a big difference.
After one or two more child-actor roles, Steve went back home to Israel, finished high school, and completed his mandatory military service. Now he was in L.A. again, ready to hit the big time. The nude photos came at a moment of desperation, when he was flat broke
Unfortunately, posing in your birthday suit was still controversial in 1975, and Steve found it difficult getting the attention of casting directors. During the next decade, he played some street toughs, some sexploitation studs, a Chippendales dancer, and a forest ranger investigating some teen murders (in The Prey, 1984).
Finally, hoping that the photos were long forgotten, he landed one of the defining roles of his career, good old boy Jimmy Lee Holt on General Hospital (1983-87).
No such luck. In 1985, an eagle-eyed editor at Playgirl discovered the old photos, and reprinted them. Steve was devastated. What would happen when the General Hospital producers found out? Would he be fired?
Turns out that nothing happened. Jimmy Lee Holt was too popular to dismiss. The GH producers even commissioned a Speedo poster to show off Steve's assets.
1. To Die For (1988): the seductive vampire Tom (Steve) gets upset when his ex-boyfriend Vlad (Bryan Hughes) falls for a mortal woman, and plots revenge. Scott Jacoby plays a human who gets involved.
2. Magdalene (1989). Austrian priest Joseph Mohr (Steve) tries to reform a prostitute, and is accused of sexual misconduct. Meanwhile he buddy-bonds with Franz Gruber (Cyrus Elias), and helps him write the Christmas classic "Silent Night."
Steve's last acting role listed on the IMDB is Enchanted Christmas, 2017, one of the usual Christmas romcoms, with a famous dancer getting back together with her ex as she restores a mountain cabin. He plays "Oliver."
You wouldn't expect someone who starred in H.O.T.S., Gas Pump Girls, and Foxy Lady to be gay, right? Steve has been married to his wife Cindy since 1982.
I guess you don't need a lot of gay content when you've been the most famous centerfold in Hollywood.
