Harry Woods (actor)
Harry Woods | |
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Lobby card with Buck Jones and Harry Woods in The Range Feud (1931) | |
Born |
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | May 5, 1889
Died |
December 28, 1968 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Resting place | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1923-1958 |
Spouse(s) | Helen P. Hookenberry (1911-1968) (his death) (3 children) |
Children | Craig Woods |
Harry Woods (May 5, 1889 – December 28, 1968) was an American film actor.[1]
Career
Woods appeared in nearly 250 films between 1923 and 1958. During his 35-year film career he acquired a reputation as a screen villain par excellence; his imposing size, powerful build, piercing eyes and snarling voice typed him as a bad guy to be reckoned with. He seldom played ordinary henchmen, usually cast as both the brains (the banker or saloon owner who secretly runs the bandit gang terrorizing the area) and the brawn behind the local villainy. He was well respected by his peers, another prime screen villain, Roy Barcroft, once said of him, "Everything I know about being a bad guy I learned from Harry Woods."[2] He enjoyed a long career in films before retiring in 1958, and he died in Los Angeles ten years later from uremia.
His son, Harry Lewis Woods, Jr., followed in his footsteps and acted in the 1940s and 1950s as Craig Woods.
Partial filmography
- Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande (1923)
- The Steel Trail (1923)
- The Fast Express (1924)
- Wolves of the North (1924) serial
- Dynamite Dan (1924)
- Ten Scars Make a Man (1924)
- A Man Four-Square (1926)
- A Trip to Chinatown (1926)
- Jesse James (1927)
- The Sunset Legion (1928)
- The Viking (1928)
- The Texas Ranger (1931)
- Monkey Business (1931)
- The Range Feud (1931)
- Night World (1932)
- Haunted Gold (1932)
- Shadows of Sing Sing (1933)
- The World Changes (1933) as Sam
- Belle of the Nineties (1934)
- The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935)
- The Lawless Nineties (1936)
- The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
- The Plainsman (1936)
- Conflict (1936)
- Ticket to Paradise (1936)
- Human Cargo (1936)
- Outcast (1937)
- I Promise to Pay (1937)
- Come On, Rangers (1938)
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
- Triple Justice (1940)
- Today I Hang (1942)
- Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
- In Old Oklahoma (1943)
- Tall in the Saddle (1944)
- Code of the West (1947)
- Wyoming (1947)
- Tycoon (1947)
- Western Heritage (1948)
- The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
References
- ↑ Kear, Lynn; Rossman, John (2008). The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances. McFarland. p. 262. ISBN 9780786431984. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ↑ Brode, Douglas (2010). Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946–Present. University of Texas Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780292783317. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
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