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person_profile-Donald Woods

Donald Woods Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Donald Woods

Date of Birth:

Dec 02, 1906

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Mar 05, 1998

Biography of

Donald Woods

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Donald Woods (born Ralph Lewis Zink, December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career in Hollywood spanned six decades.

    Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Woods moved with his family to California and was raised in Burbank. A son of William and Margaret Zink, Presbyterians of German descent. His younger brother, Clarence Russell Zink, also became an actor (Russ Conway).

    Woods graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and made his film debut in 1928. His screen career was spent mostly in B movies, for example as lawyer Perry Mason in the 1937 film The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Watch on the Rhine (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and Roughly Speaking (1945).

    Of considerable importance to his acting career were several seasons as leading man with the Elitch Gardens Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado, where he performed in 1932, 1933, 1939, 1941, 1947, and 1948.

    In the early days of television, Woods starred as the title character in the 1951 syndicated TV series Craig Kennedy, Criminologist, and he was the host of Damon Runyon Theater on CBS-TV. He played himself on the dramatic series Hotel Cosmopolitan, also on CBS, and he was one of three hosts of The Orchid Award on ABC-TV. He portrayed Walter Manning on Portia Faces Life on CBS.

    He also appeared in such anthology series as The Philco Television Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, The United States Steel Hour, Crossroads, and General Electric Theater. On April 11, 1961, Woods appeared as "Profesor Landfield" in the episode "Two for the Gallows" on NBC's Laramie western series. Series character Slim Sherman (John Smith) is hired under false pretenses to take Landfield into the Badlands to seek gold. Landfield, however, is really Morgan Bennett, a member of the former Henry Plummer gang who has escaped from prison. Slim has no idea that Lanfield is seeking the loot that his gang had hidden away. Series character Jess Harper (Robert Fuller), Pete Dixon, played by Warren Oates, and Pete's younger brother soon come to Slim's aid. The title stems from the talk that the undisciplined Dixon brothers might eventually wind up on a hangman's noose.

    Woods later was a regular in the role of John Brent on the short-lived series Tammy and made guest appearances on Bat Masterson, Wagon Train, Ben Casey, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Stoney Burke, Bourbon Street Beat, Bonanza, Coronet Blue, Ironside, Alias Smith and Jones, The Wild Wild West and Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, among many others before retiring from acting in 1976.

    Besides his film career, he also worked as a successful real estate broker in Palm Springs where he lived with his wife, childhood sweetheart Josephine Van der Horck. They were married from 1933 until his death and had two children, Linda and Conrad. He was interred at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.

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Donald Woods

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Filmography of

Donald Woods

Found 76 Movies in total

Horrible Horror

Cyrus Zorba in '13 Ghosts' ( Actor )

... 1986

True Grit

"Barlow" ( Actor )

... 1969

Istanbul Express

Shepherd ( Actor )

... 1969

Tammy and the Millionaire

John Brent ( Actor )

... 1967

Dimension 5

Kane ( Actor )

... 1966

Moment to Moment

Mr. Singer ( Actor )

... 1966

Kissin' Cousins

General Alvin Donford ( Actor )

... 1964

Five Minutes to Live

Kenneth Wilson ( Actor )

... 1961

13 Ghosts

Cyrus Zorba ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

A Wind from the South

Robert ( Actor )

... 1955

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Capt. Jackson ( Actor )

... 1953

Born to the Saddle

Matt Daggett ( Actor )

... 1953

All That I Have

Pastor William Goodwin ( Actor )

... 1951

Mr. Music

Tippy Carpenter ( Actor )

... 1950

The Lost Volcano

Paul Gordon ( Actor )

... 1950

Johnny One-Eye

Vet ( Actor )

... 1950

Barbary Pirate

Maj. Tom Blake ( Actor )

... 1949

Free For All

Roger Abernathy ( Actor )

... 1949

Scene of the Crime

Bob Herkimer ( Actor )

... 1949

Daughter of the West

Commissioner Ralph C. Connors ( Actor )

... 1949

The Return of Rin Tin Tin

Father Matthew ( Actor )

... 1947

Stepchild

Ken Bullock ( Actor )

... 1947

Bells of San Fernando

Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1947

... 1946

Never Say Goodbye

Rex DeVallon ( Actor )

... 1946

Night and Day

Ward Blackburn ( Actor )

... 1946

Wonder Man

Monte Rossen ( Actor )

... 1945

Roughly Speaking

Rodney Crane ( Actor )

... 1945

Hollywood Canteen

Self ( Actor )

... 1944

Enemy of Women

Dr. Hans Traeger, MD ( Actor )

... 1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Brother Juniper ( Actor )

... 1944

Hi'ya, Sailor

Bob Jackson ( Actor )

... 1943

So's Your Uncle

Steve Curtis aka Uncle John ( Actor )

... 1943

Watch on the Rhine

David Farrelly ( Actor )

... 1943

Corregidor

Dr. Michael ( Actor )

... 1943

The Gay Sisters

Penn Sutherland Gaylord ( Actor )

... 1942

Thru Different Eyes

Ted Farnsworth ( Actor )

... 1942

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island

Joel Grant / Joseph Elmer ( Actor )

... 1941

Bachelor Daddy

Edward Smith ( Actor )

... 1941

Sky Raiders

Captain Bob Dayton ( Actor )

... 1941

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay ( Actor )

... 1940

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

Brian McGrath ( Actor )

... 1940

If I Had My Way

Fred Johnson ( Actor )

... 1940

Forgotten Girls

Dan Donahue ( Actor )

... 1940

City of Chance

Steve Walker ( Actor )

... 1940

Mexican Spitfire

Dennis Lindsay ( Actor )

... 1940

Heritage of the Desert

John Abbott ( Actor )

... 1939

The Girl from Mexico

Dennis Lindsay ( Actor )

... 1939

Beauty for the Asking

Jeffrey Martin ( Actor )

... 1939

Danger on the Air

Benjamin Butts ( Actor )

... 1938

Romance on the Run

Barry Drake ( Actor )

... 1938

The Black Doll

Nick Halstead ( Actor )

... 1938

Big Town Girl

Mark Tracey ( Actor )

... 1937

Charlie Chan on Broadway

Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin ( Actor )

... 1937

Talent Scout

Steve Stewart ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1937

Sea Devils

Steve Webb ( Actor )

... 1937

Once a Doctor

Steven Brace ( Actor )

... 1937

Isle of Fury

Eric Blake ( Actor )

... 1936

Anthony Adverse

Vincent Nolte ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

The White Angel

Charles Cooper ( Actor )

... 1936

Road Gang

James 'Jim' Larrabie ( Actor )

... 1936

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Dr. Jean Martel ( Actor )

... 1936

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Darnay ( Actor )

... 1935

Frisco Kid

Charles Ford ( Actor )

... 1935

Stranded

John Wesley ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

The Florentine Dagger

Juan Cesare ( Actor )

... 1935

Sweet Adeline

Sid Barnett ( Actor )

... 1934

She Was a Lady

Tommy Traill ( Actor )

... 1934

Charlie Chan's Courage

Bob Crawford ( Actor )

... 1934

Fog Over Frisco

Tony Sterling ( Actor )

... 1934

Merry Wives of Reno

Frank ( Actor )

... 1934

As the Earth Turns

Stan ( Actor )

... 1934