Actor
Ben Bard
January 26, 1893 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Ben Bard (January 26, 1893, Milwaukee – May 17, 1974, Los Angeles) was a 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.
Bard had a small roll in Roland West's classic mystery The Bat Whispers (1930). Later in the decade, he ran a leading Hollywood acting school, Ben Bard Drama. He married the serial film star Ruth Roland in 1929, and was married to Roland until her death in 1937.
Often works with
Jean Brooks
3 titles together
The Seventh Victim, The Leopard Man, Youth Runs Wild
Isabel Jewell
2 titles together
The Seventh Victim, The Leopard Man
Elizabeth Russell
2 titles together
The Seventh Victim, Youth Runs Wild
Joan Barclay
2 titles together
The Seventh Victim, Youth Runs Wild
Sidney D'Albrook
2 titles together
The Leopard Man, The Bat Whispers
Janet Gaynor
2 titles together
7th Heaven, Two Girls Wanted
Full filmography · 23
Black Angel
as Bartender
19466.1
Youth Runs Wild
as Mr. Taylor
1944
The Ghost Ship
as First Officer Bowns
19436.3
The Seventh Victim
as Mr. Brun
19436.4
The Leopard Man
as Police Chief Robles
19436.5
Meet the Baron
as Charley
1933
The Bat Whispers
as The Unknown
19306.6
Night Work
as Pinkie
1930
Born Reckless
as Joe Bergman
1930
The Sculptor's Dream
cast
1930
Love and the Devil
cast
1929
Romance of the Underworld
as Derby Dan Manning
1928