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Tommy Bond got his start at the age of five when a talent scout for Hal Roach studios approached the lad as he was leaving a Dallas cinema with his mother. The scout asked him if he would like to act in films because he "had a great face" and set up an appointment with Hal Roach in Los Angeles. Hal Roach was gathering new talent for his popular Our Gang comedies. Bond's grandmother Jane Quin Sauter volunteered to drive the boy to L.A. by motor car. The year was 1931, in the depth of the Great Depression. It proved to be a grueling journey, punctuated by flash floods and encounters with tarantulas, on mostly dirt roads from Dallas to L.A.Bond was most notable for appearing in Roach's Our Gang short subjects series (later broadcast on television as The Little Rascals). From 1932 to 1934, he appeared in the series under his own name as a supporting character. He returned to Our Gang in 1937 as a bully character, named Butch, who always competed with Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer for Darla Hood's affections. Bond appeared in twenty-seven Our Gang shorts (Twelve shorts as "Tommy", and fourteen shorts as "Butch") before leaving the series for good in late 1940.While an Our Ganger, Bond appeared in a number of outside films, such as those featuring fellow Hal Roach Studios comedians Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy. He also worked as a voice actor, most notably as the voice of "Owl Jolson" in Tex Avery's 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon, I Love to Singa
