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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
True Grit
Character:"Barlow"
Release Date:11/06/1969
Istanbul Express
Character:Shepherd
Release Date:07/03/1969
A Time to Sing
Character:Vernon Carter
Release Date:15/08/1968
Tammy and the Millionaire
Character:John Brent
Release Date:01/05/1967
Dimension 5
Character:Kane
Release Date:01/10/1966
Moment to Moment
Character:Mr. Singer
Release Date:27/01/1966
Kissin' Cousins
Character:General Alvin Donford
Release Date:06/03/1964
Five Minutes to Live
Character:Kenneth Wilson
Release Date:07/12/1961
13 Ghosts
Character:Cyrus Zorba
Release Date:16/05/1960
I'll Give My Life
Character:
Release Date:03/02/1960
A Wind from the South
Character:Robert
Release Date:14/09/1955
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Character:Capt. Jackson
Release Date:13/06/1953
Born to the Saddle
Character:Matt Daggett
Release Date:15/03/1953
The Studebaker Story
Character:John Mohler Studebaker
Release Date:01/01/1953
Tall, Dark and Dead
Character:Craig Kennedy
Release Date:01/01/1952
All That I Have
Character:Pastor William Goodwin
Release Date:01/10/1951
Mr. Music
Character:Tippy Carpenter
Release Date:08/12/1950
The Lost Volcano
Character:Paul Gordon
Release Date:25/06/1950
Johnny One-Eye
Character:Vet
Release Date:05/05/1950
Barbary Pirate
Character:Maj. Tom Blake
Release Date:10/11/1949
Free For All
Character:Roger Abernathy
Release Date:01/11/1949
Scene of the Crime
Character:Bob Herkimer
Release Date:28/07/1949
Daughter of the West
Character:Commissioner Ralph C. Connors
Release Date:15/02/1949
The Return of Rin Tin Tin
Character:Father Matthew
Release Date:01/11/1947
Stepchild
Character:Ken Bullock
Release Date:07/06/1947
Bells of San Fernando
Character:Michael 'Gringo' O'Brien
Release Date:01/03/1947
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Character:Martin Drew
Release Date:26/12/1946
Never Say Goodbye
Character:Rex DeVallon
Release Date:09/11/1946
Goodbye, Weeds
Character:Henry
Release Date:30/10/1946
Night and Day
Character:Ward Blackburn
Release Date:02/07/1946
Star in the Night
Character:Hitchhiker
Release Date:13/10/1945
Wonder Man
Character:Monte Rossen
Release Date:08/06/1945
Roughly Speaking
Character:Rodney Crane
Release Date:31/01/1945
Hollywood Canteen
Character:Self
Release Date:15/12/1944
Enemy of Women
Character:Dr. Hans Traeger, MD
Release Date:10/11/1944
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character:Brother Juniper
Release Date:11/02/1944
Hi'ya, Sailor
Character:Bob Jackson
Release Date:08/10/1943
So's Your Uncle
Character:Steve Curtis aka Uncle John
Release Date:01/09/1943
Watch on the Rhine
Character:David Farrelly
Release Date:27/08/1943
Corregidor
Character:Dr. Michael
Release Date:29/03/1943
The Gay Sisters
Character:Penn Sutherland Gaylord
Release Date:01/08/1942
March On, America!
Character:Francis Scott Key (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:20/06/1942
Thru Different Eyes
Character:Ted Farnsworth
Release Date:19/06/1942
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Character:Joel Grant / Joseph Elmer
Release Date:04/08/1941
Bachelor Daddy
Character:Edward Smith
Release Date:04/06/1941
Sky Raiders
Character:Captain Bob Dayton
Release Date:08/04/1941
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Character:Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
Release Date:29/10/1940
Young America Flies
Character:John Woodward
Release Date:13/07/1940
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Character:Brian McGrath
Release Date:07/06/1940
If I Had My Way
Character:Fred Johnson
Release Date:05/05/1940
Forgotten Girls
Character:Dan Donahue
Release Date:15/03/1940
City of Chance
Character:Steve Walker
Release Date:13/01/1940
Mexican Spitfire
Character:Dennis Lindsay
Release Date:12/01/1940
Heritage of the Desert
Character:John Abbott
Release Date:23/06/1939
The Girl from Mexico
Character:Dennis Lindsay
Release Date:01/06/1939
Beauty for the Asking
Character:Jeffrey Martin
Release Date:24/02/1939
Danger on the Air
Character:Benjamin Butts
Release Date:30/06/1938
Romance on the Run
Character:Barry Drake
Release Date:11/05/1938
The Black Doll
Character:Nick Halstead
Release Date:31/01/1938
Big Town Girl
Character:Mark Tracey
Release Date:03/12/1937
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Character:Speed Patten, Reporter New York Bulletin
Release Date:22/09/1937
Talent Scout
Character:Steve Stewart
Release Date:24/07/1937
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character:Perry Mason
Release Date:08/06/1937
Sea Devils
Character:Steve Webb
Release Date:19/02/1937
Once a Doctor
Character:Steven Brace
Release Date:23/01/1937
Breakdowns of 1936
Character:Self
Release Date:30/12/1936
Isle of Fury
Character:Eric Blake
Release Date:10/10/1936
Anthony Adverse
Character:Vincent Nolte
Release Date:26/08/1936
A Son Comes Home
Character:Denny
Release Date:31/07/1936
The Song of a Nation
Character:Francis Scott Key
Release Date:04/07/1936
The White Angel
Character:Charles Cooper
Release Date:25/06/1936
The Making of a Great Motion Picture
Character:
Release Date:15/04/1936
Road Gang
Character:James 'Jim' Larrabie
Release Date:28/03/1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Character:Dr. Jean Martel
Release Date:22/02/1936
A Dream Comes True
Character:Himself (uncredited)
Release Date:31/12/1935
A Tale of Two Cities
Character:Charles Darnay
Release Date:25/12/1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
Character:Self
Release Date:01/12/1935
Frisco Kid
Character:Charles Ford
Release Date:30/11/1935
Stranded
Character:John Wesley
Release Date:29/06/1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
Character:Carl
Release Date:13/04/1935
The Florentine Dagger
Character:Juan Cesare
Release Date:30/03/1935
Sweet Adeline
Character:Sid Barnett
Release Date:29/12/1934
She Was a Lady
Character:Tommy Traill
Release Date:22/08/1934
Charlie Chan's Courage
Character:Bob Crawford
Release Date:06/07/1934
Fog Over Frisco
Character:Tony Sterling
Release Date:02/06/1934
Merry Wives of Reno
Character:Frank
Release Date:18/04/1934
Hollywood Newsreel
Character:Himself
Release Date:24/03/1934
As the Earth Turns
Character:Stan
Release Date:14/02/1934
Motorboat Mamas
Character:Yacht Club Patron (uncredited)
Release Date:30/09/1928
Motorboat Mamas
Character:Yacht Club Patron
Release Date:30/09/1928
Television Appearances
Police Story
Character:
The Sandy Duncan Show
Character:
Alias Smith and Jones
Character:
Hondo
Character:
Ironside
Character:
Felony Squad
Character:
The Wild Wild West
Character:
Tammy
Character:John Brent
Stoney Burke
Character:
Sam Benedict
Character:
Ben Casey
Character:
Thriller
Character:Dr. John Carmody
Bourbon Street Beat
Character:
The Rebel
Character:Sam Moss
Men Into Space
Character:
Tightrope
Character:
77 Sunset Strip
Character:
Bat Masterson
Character:Roger Purcell
Wagon Train
Character:Philip Ayers
Hotel Cosmopolitan
Character:
Damon Runyon Theater
Character:
The Millionaire
Character:Cobb Marley
Lassie
Character:
Portia Faces Life
Character:
Inner Sanctum
Character:
The United States Steel Hour
Character:
General Electric Theater
Character:
General Electric Theater
Character:Norman Frost Bennett
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:Kirby Sinclair
Craig Kennedy, Criminologist
Character:Craig Kennedy
Robert Montgomery Presents
Character:
Lights Out
Character:
The Philco Television Playhouse
Character:
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