Donald Woods

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

119

Movies

Born: December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998
From: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Biography

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.

Works

89 films

True Grit

19697.3

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

19536.6

13 Ghosts

19605.8

Istanbul Express

19695.4

Night and Day

19466.1

Hollywood Newsreel

19347.0

Thru Different Eyes

19428.0

Bachelor Daddy

19418.0

A Tale of Two Cities

19356.8

Breakdowns of 1936

1936

Goodbye, Weeds

1946

Wonder Man

19456.6

Kissin' Cousins

19644.7

A Wind from the South

19555.9

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Isle of Fury

19365.5

The Story of Louis Pasteur

19366.9

Road Gang

19367.0

Dimension 5

19665.3

Watch on the Rhine

19436.9

Scene of the Crime

19496.1

The Black Doll

19386.5

Forgotten Girls

19405.6

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island

19417.0

Never Say Goodbye

19466.3

Hi'ya, Sailor

19436.5

She Was a Lady

19348.0

So's Your Uncle

19436.0

The Time, The Place and The Girl

19465.7

Fog Over Frisco

19346.4

Five Minutes to Live

19615.5

Frisco Kid

19357.0

Heritage of the Desert

19396.6

Charlie Chan on Broadway

19377.1

Johnny One-Eye

19505.1

Things You Never See on the Screen

19355.3

Tammy and the Millionaire

19676.5

Mr. Music

19506.5

A Dream Comes True

19356.3

Talent Scout

19376.7

Big Town Girl

19377.0

I'll Give My Life

19608.0

The Case of the Curious Bride

19356.0

The White Angel

19367.2

Anthony Adverse

19365.7

The Florentine Dagger

19356.8

The Gay Sisters

19426.6

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

19377.2

Free For All

19496.3

Tall, Dark and Dead

1952

Charlie Chan's Courage

19348.7

The Studebaker Story

1953

Sweet Adeline

19346.8

As the Earth Turns

19345.6

The Girl from Mexico

19395.1

Roughly Speaking

19456.8

Sea Devils

19376.0

March On, America!

19425.5

Sky Raiders

19417.3

The Return of Rin Tin Tin

19475.7

City of Chance

19405.6

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19446.3

The Lost Volcano

19505.6

If I Had My Way

19407.0

Star in the Night

19457.5

Romance on the Run

19387.0

Stranded

19356.0

Barbary Pirate

19496.5

Corregidor

19434.4

All That I Have

19516.0

Moment to Moment

19665.1

Danger on the Air

19386.4

A Time to Sing

19686.5

Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!

19409.0

Daughter of the West

19498.0

A Son Comes Home

19364.0

Mexican Spitfire Out West

19405.0

Bells of San Fernando

19474.6

Once a Doctor

19376.5

Mexican Spitfire

19405.0

Motorboat Mamas

19289.0

Stepchild

19478.0

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

19366.7

Beauty for the Asking

19395.7

Born to the Saddle

19535.7

Enemy of Women

19445.1

Merry Wives of Reno

19344.4

Young America Flies

19407.0

The Song of a Nation

19365.7