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Donald Woods is a Actor American born on 2 december 1906 at Brandon (Canada)
Donald Woods (December 2, 1906 – March 5, 1998) was a Canadian-American film and television actor whose career spanned six decades.
He was the older brother of Canadian-born actor Russell Conway, born Russell Clarence Zink, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, on April 25, 1913.
À la télévision, il collabore à un téléfilm en 1968, et à cinquante-deux séries (dont plusieurs séries-westerns), de 1950 à 1974, avant un dernier rôle en 1984.
Au théâtre, Donald Woods joue à Broadway (New York) dans trois pièces, en 1932, 1940 et 1964.
Pour sa contribution à la télévision, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.
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Birth name Ralph L. Zink
Nationality USA
Birth 2 december 1906 at Brandon (Canada)
Death 5 march 1998 (at 91 years) at Palm Springs (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 2 december 1906 at Brandon (Canada)
Death 5 march 1998 (at 91 years) at Palm Springs (USA)
He was the older brother of Canadian-born actor Russell Conway, born Russell Clarence Zink, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, on April 25, 1913.
Biography
Si l'on excepte un petit rôle non crédité dans un court métrage muet de 1928, Ralph L. Zink débute au cinéma en 1934, sous le pseudonyme de Donald Woods. Il participe à soixante-dix neuf films américains jusqu'en 1969 (le western Cent dollars pour un shérif, avec John Wayne), avant une ultime prestation, là encore dans un petit rôle non-crédité, en 1976.À la télévision, il collabore à un téléfilm en 1968, et à cinquante-deux séries (dont plusieurs séries-westerns), de 1950 à 1974, avant un dernier rôle en 1984.
Au théâtre, Donald Woods joue à Broadway (New York) dans trois pièces, en 1932, 1940 et 1964.
Pour sa contribution à la télévision, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.
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True Grit (1969)
, 2h8Directed by Henry Hathaway, Marguerite Roberts, Hal B. Wallis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey, Jeremy Slate
Roles "Barlow"
Rating73%
Frank Ross (John Pickard) is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross' daughter, Mattie (Kim Darby), hires aging U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn (John Wayne) to bring Chaney in. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has "true grit". She gives him a down payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Moment to Moment (1966)
, 1h43Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Arthur Hill, Sean Garrison, Donald Woods, Georgette Anys
Roles Mr. Singer
Rating63%
Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) lives on the French Riviera with her psychiatrist husband Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill) and son Tommy (Peter Robbins). One day while Neil is away, Kay meets an American naval ensign, Mark (Sean Garrison), and they begin an affair. Kay realises she does love her husband and tries to break off the relationship. She and Mark argue, and Kay accidentally shoots him. With the help of her friend Daphne (Honor Blackman), she dumps his body into a ravine, then calls the police anonymously to tell them of its location.
Dimension 5 (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Franklin Adreon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Spy films, Time travel films
Actors Jeffrey Hunter, France Nuyen, Harold Sakata, Donald Woods, Kam Tong, Robert Ito
Roles Kane
Rating46%
Justin Power (Hunter), agent for Espionage, Inc., returns from a mission in which he used a time-travel belt to steal secret plans. He is told by his supierior, Cane (Donald Woods), he is to be teamed with a Chinese agent to combat an Asian crime ring, Dragon, headed by crime lord Big Buddha (Sakata). A sister agency has discovered Dragon plans to destroy Los Angeles if United States forces are not withdrawn from east Asia.
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
, 1h36Directed by Gene Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Yvonne Craig, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Cynthia Pepper
Roles General Alvin Donford
Rating52%
Elvis plays the dual role of look-alike cousins Josh Morgan, a dark-haired U.S. Air Force second lieutenant, and Jodie Tatum, a blond hillbilly. The film is set in the hills of Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, but is mostly shot on Hollywood sets and in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Josh, along with Captain Robert Jason Salbo (Jack Albertson), has to persuade the Tatums, his distant relatives on his mother's side, to sell their land to the U.S. government so that it can be used as an ICBM missile base.
Five Minutes to Live (1961)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Pamela Mason, Vic Tayback, Ron Howard, Norma Varden
Roles Kenneth Wilson
Rating55%
The film opens on Fred (Vic Tayback), sitting in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he has always had a plan for a small town bank robbery. He had teamed-up with hardened criminal, Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) to execute his plan. Cabot is to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. He is to hold her until he gets a call from Fred informing him that they have the ransom money. Cabot watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for work and their son heads off to school. At first, posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, Cabot works his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Cay Forrester) hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson's (Donald Woods) office, and hands him a check for $70,000, informing Wilson that he will withdraw the funds to cover the ransom or his wife will die. He tells Wilson to call home in order to prove that Nancy is being held hostage, and then informs him that if he does not call Cabot back in five minutes that Mrs. Wilson will die. Wilson tells Fred that he's been planning to leave his wife anyway and run off to Las Vegas with his mistress, Ellen (Pamela Mason). He tells Fred that he will be doing him a favor by killing his wife. Fred, however, does not believe that Ken will let his wife die. He is proven correct, as time ticks by, Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom. Fred calls Cabot and starts the clock over again. As time ticks away, Fred works on Ken to collect the money so he can leave the bank safely. Meanwhile, at the Wilson house, Cabot is enjoying terrorizing his hostage. Forcing her to listen to him play songs about her impending demise, shooting at her and making sexual advances toward her (which she tries to use to aid her escape to no avail). Back at the bank, Fred has been taken down by the police who arrived after someone tripped the silent alarm. As a result, Cabot is getting nervous having not received his expected call from Fred. Suddenly, in walks Little Bobby (Ron Howard), home for lunch. Around this time the police finally arrive outside the Wilson house. In a panic, Cabot grabs Bobby and runs for it. He runs right into the yard and waiting police gunfire. Bobby pretends as though he's been shot in the fight in order to get Cabot to put him down. After apparently being very upset by the accidental shooting of the young boy, Cabot runs back into the fight and is killed by police. Nancy runs outside to find her son alive and well. The film ends with Mr. Wilson driving to Las Vegas, but with his wife instead of his, now former, mistress.
I'll Give My Life (1960)
, 1h18Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ray Collins, Angie Dickinson, Katherine Warren, Donald Woods, Jon Shepodd, Stuart Randall
Roles Pastor Goodwin
Rating59%
John Bradford expects son Jim to join his engineering firm, but Jim instead joins the ministry, attending a seminary for four years before being assigned to New Guinea.
13 Ghosts (1960)
, 1h25Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Rosemary DeCamp, Martin Milner, Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Cyrus Zorba
Rating59%
When occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba wills a huge ramshackle house to his nephew Cyrus and his impoverished family, they are shocked to find the house is haunted. Their new furnished residence comes complete with Dr. Plato Zorba's housekeeper, Elaine Zacharides, plus a fortune in buried treasure and 12 horrifying ghosts.
, 1h20Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Eugène Lourié
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods
Roles Capt. Jackson
Rating65%
Far north of the Arctic Circle, a nuclear bomb test, dubbed "Operation Experiment", is conducted. Prophetically, right after the blast, physicist Thomas Nesbitt (Paul Christian) muses, "What the cumulative effects of all these atomic explosions and tests will be, only time will tell." No sooner said, the explosion awakens a 30-foot (10 m) tall, 100-foot (30 m) long carnivorous animal known as Rhedosaurus, thawing it out of the ice where it had been held in suspended animation. Nesbitt is the only witness to the beast's awakening and is later dismissed out-of-hand as being delirious at the time of his "sighting". Despite the skepticism he persists, knowing what he saw.
Born to the Saddle (1953)
, 1h17Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Donald Woods, Leif Erickson, Chuck Courtney, Rand Brooks, Glenn Strange, Bobby Anderson
Roles Matt Daggett
Rating57%
Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler's gun. Dagget looks on Bill as 'good luck' and nurses him back to health and gives him the job of training "Blue Chip", the fastest quarter horse in the west, for a big race. Bill doesn't know that Dagget plans to fix the race and put his own money on another horse at heavy odds. Quartered at the nearby ranch of John Grant, Bill meets Jerri Marshall, daughter of Bob Marshall, who lost "Blue Chip" to Daggett in a crooked gambling deal. Grant gets mixed up in a stage coach robbery and killing and rides back to the ranch with Daggett henchman Red Roper. When Roper tries to molest a woman, Bill bluffs him with an empty gun and forces him back to town. Roper is arrested for the killing and implicates Grant. Incited by Daggett, who fears exposure as the outlaw leader, a paid mob breaks into the jail and both Grant and Roper are hanged, but Grant, barely able to touch a plank with the toe of his boot, clings to life until Bill finds him and cuts him down. On the day of the race, Daggett lures Bill away from "Blue Chip" long enough for a wire to be twisted around the horse's leg at the fetlock. "Blue Chip" goes lane partly through the race but races on in agony and wins. Daggett tries to hide his treachery by blaming the lameness on a broken leg and draws his gun to shoot the horse. Marshall intervenes and is shot by the gambler. Bill discovers the wire and now also knows that Daggett is the outlaw leader responsible for his father's death and the hanging of his friend Grant. Bill heads for the saloon to confront Daggett. Just as the gambler turns to fire on Bill, Grant appears. When the smoke clears both Daggett and Grant are dead.
Mr. Music (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Haydn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Groucho Marx, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey, Robert Stack
Roles Tippy Carpenter
Rating60%
New York theater producer Alex Conway (Charles Coburn) travels with composer Paul Merrick (Bing Crosby) to Lawford College, Paul's alma mater, where one of his musicals is being revived by the students. The current campus hero is handsome athlete Jefferson Blake (Robert Stack) so Katherine Holbrook (Nancy Olson), class valedictorian and chairman of the welcoming committee for returning alumni, asks Paul to work in a phrase about Jeff in one of his songs. Paul balks at the suggestion, but Kate's matter-of-fact manner leaves no room for discussion.
Johnny One-Eye (1950)
, 1h18Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Dolores Moran, Donald Woods, Barton Hepburn, John Doucette
Roles Vet
Rating55%
In Manhattan, former gangster turned legitimate businessman Martin Martin (Pat O'Brien) has become the target of a politically ambitious district attorney, who has offered immunity for Martin's former partner in crime Dane Cory in exchange for his testimony. After being informed about the deal and narrowly escaping arrest, Martin pays a visit to Cory to persuade him not to testify. The meeting ends up with a shootout, with Martin killing one of Cory's henchmen and being hit himself before fleeing. With his picture on newspaper front pages and a reward on his head, Martin decides to hide in an abandoned house. While recovering to prepare a final assault on Cory, he adopts an injured dog that strays into his hideout and names him Johnny One-Eye.
Scene of the Crime (1949)
, 1h34Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntire
Roles Bob Herkimer
Rating65%
Lieutenant Mike Conovan (Van Johnson), head of an LAPD homicide detective squad, investigates when Ed Monigan, an older member of his squad (and former partner), is murdered while off-duty and carrying $1,000 in cash. Conovan's current partner and one-time mentor, Fred Piper (John McIntire), is getting on in years and his eyesight is failing, while under Conovan's wing is rookie detective C.C. Gordon (Tom Drake), learning the ropes.
Free For All (1949)
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Cummings, Ann Blyth, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Donald Woods, Mikhail Rasumny
Roles Roger Abernathy
Rating60%
Bells of San Fernando (1947)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Actors Donald Woods, Byron Foulger, Gloria Warren, Anthony Warde, Monte Blue, Claire Du Brey
Roles Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien
Rating52%
Bells of San Fernando a été annoncé comme une aventure romantique, mais il joue plus comme un western. Donald Woods joue un immigrant irlandais qui fait équipe avec la mexicaine Gloria Warren pour combattre le baron de la terre Anthony Warde. Chaque fois que l'intrigue est en retard, Warren chante. Attrapez le nom de "Renault Duncan" dans le générique du scénario de Bells of San Fernando. C'est vraiment l'acteur Duncan Renaldo, alias "The Cisco Kid" - ce qui peut expliquer pourquoi le film ressemble à un épisode "Cisco" à peine déguisé.
The Return of Rin Tin Tin (1947)
, 1h5Directed by Max Nosseck
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rintintin (acteur canin), Donald Woods, Robert Blake, Claudia Drake, Steve Pendleton, Earle Hodgins
Roles Father Matthew
Rating51%