Donald Woods
Data de nascimento:
02/12/1906
Local de nascimento:
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Data de falecimento:
05/03/1998
Biografia
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.
Filmes em que atuou
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Horrible Horror (1986)- 7.00 ★Cyrus Zorba in '13 Ghosts'
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Bravura Indômita (1969)- 7.40 ★"Barlow"
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Istanbul Express (1969)- 5.10 ★Shepherd
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Tammy and the Millionaire (1967)- 5.00 ★John Brent
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Dimensão 5 (1966)- 4.63 ★Kane
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Moment to Moment (1966)- 5.20 ★Mr. Singer
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Com Caipira Não se Brinca (1964)- 4.80 ★General Alvin Donford
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Five Minutes to Live (1961)- 5.87 ★Kenneth Wilson
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13 Fantasmas (1960)- 5.71 ★Cyrus Zorba
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I'll Give My Life (1960)- 6.00 ★
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A Wind from the South (1955)- 5.70 ★Robert
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O Monstro do Mar (1953)- 6.62 ★Capt. Jackson
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Born to the Saddle (1953)- 5.00 ★Matt Daggett
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The Studebaker Story (1953)- 0.00 ★John Mohler Studebaker
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All That I Have (1951)- 5.00 ★Pastor William Goodwin
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Johnny One-Eye (1950)- 4.90 ★Vet
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The Lost Volcano (1950)- 5.20 ★Paul Gordon
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A Secretária do Malandro (1950)- 4.00 ★Tippy Carpenter
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A Cena do Crime (1949)- 6.20 ★Bob Herkimer
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Free For All (1949)- 6.00 ★Roger Abernathy
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Daughter of the West (1949)- 0.00 ★Commissioner Ralph C. Connors
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Barbary Pirate (1949)- 6.00 ★Maj. Tom Blake
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The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947)- 5.20 ★Father Matthew
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Bells of San Fernando (1947)- 4.00 ★Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien
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Stepchild (1947)- 0.00 ★Ken Bullock
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Nunca Me Digas Adeus (1946)- 6.10 ★Rex DeVallon
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Goodbye, Weeds (1946)- 0.00 ★Henry
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Um Sonho e Uma Canção (1946)- 5.40 ★Martin Drew
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Canção Inesquecível (1946)- 5.70 ★Ward Blackburn
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O Preço da Felicidade (1945)- 6.80 ★Rodney Crane
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Wonder Man (1945)- 6.60 ★Monte Rossen
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Star in the Night (1945)- 6.90 ★Hitchhiker
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Um Sonho em Hollywood (1944)- 7.30 ★Self
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)- 6.00 ★Brother Juniper
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Enemy of Women (1944)- 5.10 ★Dr. Hans Traeger, MD
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Horas de Tormenta (1943)- 6.83 ★David Farrelly
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Corregidor (1943)- 4.80 ★Dr. Michael
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Hi'ya, Sailor (1943)- 6.00 ★Bob Jackson
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So's Your Uncle (1943)- 5.00 ★Steve Curtis aka Uncle John
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As Três Herdeiras (1942)- 6.50 ★Penn Sutherland Gaylord
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Thru Different Eyes (1942)- 0.00 ★Ted Farnsworth
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March On, America! (1942)- 4.00 ★Francis Scott Key (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Sky Raiders (1941)- 6.30 ★Captain Bob Dayton
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)- 0.00 ★Joel Grant / Joseph Elmer
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Bachelor Daddy (1941)- 0.00 ★Edward Smith
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City of Chance (1940)- 5.20 ★Steve Walker
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Mexican Spitfire (1940)- 4.60 ★Dennis Lindsay
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Forgotten Girls (1940)- 5.00 ★Dan Donahue
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940)- 0.00 ★Brian McGrath
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Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)- 4.60 ★Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
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If I Had My Way (1940)- 6.40 ★Fred Johnson
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Young America Flies (1940)- 0.00 ★John Woodward
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Beauty for the Asking (1939)- 5.70 ★Jeffrey Martin
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The Girl from Mexico (1939)- 4.20 ★Dennis Lindsay
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Heritage of the Desert (1939)- 5.80 ★John Abbott
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Romance on the Run (1938)- 0.00 ★Barry Drake
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Danger on the Air (1938)- 5.90 ★Benjamin Butts
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The Black Doll (1938)- 5.30 ★Nick Halstead
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Charlie Chan na Broadway (1937)- 7.20 ★Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)- 6.80 ★Perry Mason
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Sea Devils (1937)- 5.70 ★Steve Webb
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Talent Scout (1937)- 6.00 ★Steve Stewart
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Once a Doctor (1937)- 6.30 ★Steven Brace
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Big Town Girl (1937)- 6.00 ★Mark Tracey
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Adversidade (1936)- 5.70 ★Vincent Nolte
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)- 6.80 ★Dr. Jean Martel
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Ilha da Esperança (1936)- 5.30 ★Eric Blake
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Road Gang (1936)- 6.50 ★James 'Jim' Larrabie
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The White Angel (1936)- 8.00 ★Charles Cooper
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Breakdowns of 1936 (1936)- 0.00 ★Self
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The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936)- 5.00 ★
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A Son Comes Home (1936)- 1.00 ★Denny
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The Florentine Dagger (1935)- 5.70 ★Juan Cesare
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)- 6.80 ★Charles Darnay
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Frisco Kid (1935)- 6.80 ★Charles Ford
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O Primeiro Beijo (1935)- 5.80 ★John Wesley
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A Noiva Curiosa (1935)- 6.10 ★Carl
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A Dream Comes True (1935)- 5.50 ★Himself (uncredited)
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Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)- 5.00 ★Self
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Sweet Adeline (1934)- 5.70 ★Sid Barnett
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Névoa de Mistério (1934)- 6.10 ★Tony Sterling
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Merry Wives of Reno (1934)- 4.80 ★Frank
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As the Earth Turns (1934)- 5.29 ★Stan
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O Mistério das Pérolas (1934)- 10.00 ★Bob Crawford
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She Was a Lady (1934)- 0.00 ★Tommy Traill
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Motorboat Mamas (1928)- 0.00 ★Yacht Club Patron (uncredited)