Donald Woods

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1906-12-02
Place of Birth: Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Also Known As: Ralph Lewis Zink

Movies List of Donald Woods

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13 Ghosts

1960 Movie
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The Florentine Dagger

1935 Movie
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Never Say Goodbye

1946 Movie
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Anthony Adverse

1936 Movie
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Five Minutes to Live

1961 Movie
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Sweet Adeline

1934 Movie
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City of Chance

1940 Movie
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Scene of the Crime

1949 Movie
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Hollywood Canteen

1944 Movie
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True Grit

1969 Movie
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A Tale of Two Cities

1935 Movie
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Motorboat Mamas

1928 Movie
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Fog Over Frisco

1934 Movie
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Johnny One-Eye

1950 Movie
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Dimension 5

1966 Movie
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Horrible Horror

1986 Movie
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Merry Wives of Reno

1934 Movie
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Isle of Fury

1936 Movie
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Beauty for the Asking

1939 Movie
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Mr. Music

1950 Movie
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The Lost Volcano

1950 Movie
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Mexican Spitfire

1940 Movie
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Bells of San Fernando

1947 Movie
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The Studebaker Story

1953 Movie
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Forgotten Girls

1940 Movie
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Roughly Speaking

1945 Movie
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Frisco Kid

1935 Movie
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Enemy of Women

1944 Movie
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Sea Devils

1937 Movie
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Stranded

1935 Movie
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Talent Scout

1937 Movie
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As the Earth Turns

1934 Movie
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Road Gang

1936 Movie
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A Son Comes Home

1936 Movie
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A Time to Sing

1968 Movie
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Sky Raiders

1941 Movie
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The Girl from Mexico

1939 Movie
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Romance on the Run

1938 Movie
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Danger on the Air

1938 Movie
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The Black Doll

1938 Movie
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Tall, Dark and Dead

1952 Movie
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The White Angel

1936 Movie
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Free For All

1949 Movie
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Wonder Man

1945 Movie
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Watch on the Rhine

1943 Movie
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Stepchild

1947 Movie
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Daughter of the West

1949 Movie
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Born to the Saddle

1953 Movie
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Hollywood Newsreel

1934 Movie
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Star in the Night

1945 Movie
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Once a Doctor

1937 Movie
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Big Town Girl

1937 Movie
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Hi'ya, Sailor

1943 Movie
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Corregidor

1943 Movie
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Thru Different Eyes

1942 Movie
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Breakdowns of 1936

1936 Movie
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The Gay Sisters

1942 Movie
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A Wind from the South

1955 Movie
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The Song of a Nation

1936 Movie
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Goodbye, Weeds

1946 Movie
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Kissin' Cousins

1964 Movie
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Istanbul Express

1969 Movie
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A Dream Comes True

1935 Movie
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All That I Have

1951 Movie
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So's Your Uncle

1943 Movie
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Moment to Moment

1966 Movie
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If I Had My Way

1940 Movie
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Young America Flies

1940 Movie
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Bachelor Daddy

1941 Movie
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March On, America!

1942 Movie
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Barbary Pirate

1949 Movie
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Night and Day

1946 Movie
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I'll Give My Life

1960 Movie
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She Was a Lady

1934 Movie